Questions tagged [concat]
In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining two character strings end-to-end
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Why does the concatenation order change with a User-Defined Table Type?
I've encountered what seems to me to be a strange ordering issue when using CONCAT with a User Defined Table Type.
I've put the SQL below that allows me to reproduce this:
I have the following user ...
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How to concatenate rows into one comma seperated value when used with case statements
I have a query that has multiple case statements. I am trying to reduce the results to one row per USER_ID that has one of the columns (specialty_id) comma separated because some users have more than ...
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NULL value causes blank row in SELECT results for text concatenation
I have a query for producing some text for creating some VALUES text to put in a .sql file for inserting some rows. I get a blank line in the results:
postgres=# SELECT ' (' || obj_id || ', ''' || ...
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How to use query result as REPLACE parameters
i'm trying to:
1- Find a string inside a lot of content
2- Replace that specific part of the string with a new one using REPLACE function like this:
REPLACE(column_name, query#1, query#2)
Is this ...
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Postgresql Date Function Returning Range In Readable Format
I am wondering if it is possible to use postgresql's date-time , concat and case functions to give one of the following results:
June 4th to 11th 2019 (where the 1st and 2nd date are within the same ...
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Sql subquery for nested parent child data
I have two tables , on parent table (categories ) and child table (features).. I have this query
select c.* ,
(select GROUP_CONCAT(f.featuresId , f.featuresTitle )
from ...
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How performant is finding a substring in database?
To route requests on my website, I need to query the database to see if the first part of a URL matches a category for an item.
For example:
I have a request to /animals/dog/darktheme/. The ...
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Large string concatenation in query
I am trying to concatenates strings in T-SQL like
'This is a test ' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) + ' string'
When the string is long (I do not know the limit), I get an error:
Some part of your SQL ...
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CONCAT_WS causes “Data too long” which works partially?
I've got a simple table with several columns and I'm trying to merge two of them into one. I'm working with MySQL 5.5 and I can reproduce the error one a specific data set by running the following (...
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How can the concatenatation of a text and a NULL value return a non-null result?
Assert 1
The concatenation operator || can concatenate any string type values, returning text. In Postgres, every type has a text representation and can be cast to text. Consequently, quoting the ...
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How to Concat Datetime without Losing Second Precision
What is best way to Concat on datetime column with other fields, without losing/truncate millisecond precision?
Example: We have a column in datetime precision.
1988-02-27 00:00:04.000
We are ...
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Updating a string field by concatenating 2 int columns
I have 2 columns, an int and a tiny int, and I want to update another column, a varchar one, with the value column1 + '-' + column2. Something like this pseudo code:
UPDATE COLUMN3 varchar = CONCAT (...
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Concatenate into Field in Update
I am trying to write a Stored Procedure which updates a quantity data column in one of my tables, and then takes a field set for random notes and concatenates the update information.
This is what I ...
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SQLite3 doesn't have concat_ws, looking for workaround
I'm trying to concatenate some columns and I would like to use space as my output string delimiter.
Basically concat_ws would be a perfect fit, but it doesn't exist for SQLite3.
I'm inside a ...
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How to Concatenate DateTime to nvarchar field
I have a table with a nvarchar(32) column and I want to update the value in this column with the first 10 bytes of another field on the table which is defined as nvarchar(32) after the 10 bytes I want ...
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Removal of blank lines
I am creating a SSRS Report to produce some address labels. I have a SELECT statement as follows:
SELECT DISTINCT
AddressLink.intAddressID, Addresses.txtLabelSalutation, ...
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Conditional string concatenation in PostgreSQL
I have a table parcels which currently contains the columns owner_addr1, owner_addr2, owner_addr3. Sometimes, one or both of the latter two fields is empty. I want to combine them into a single new ...
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Update a table using values from another table
I have two tables with structure
Table1
------
No | Name | IDNo | HouseNoBlock
Table2
------
IDNo | HouseNo | Block
I am trying to update the HouseNoBlock Column of first table with value ...
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MySQL “Out of sort memory” error on a simple GROUP_CONCAT query
I have a (what it seems to me) simple query which fails to run on a simple table, the error is:
Out of sort memory, consider increasing server sort buffer size
These are the SQL statements which I'...
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Array to string sometimes concatenates fewer values
array_to_string(array_agg(array_to_string(array[
highlights,exceptions,inter_note,inter_status::text
,comp_note,comp_status::text,hard_note,hard_status::text]
,'|#|'::...
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Optimizing query. FOR XML PATH or some alternatives?
Is there any way to optimize the FOR XML PATH statement? Or maybe I should use another approach?
Current approach is not acceptable at all. It takes minutes. I know view is a really big union and it ...
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Is there any way to concatenate a value in a column with different strings?
As you can see on the column 'Race Position' I have a set of values corresponding to the participants results. 1 being 1st Position and so on.
What I wanted was to be able to concat the values and ...
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How do I build a PostgreSQL ORDER BY expression based on a concatenation of columns?
I'm using Postgres 9.5. I want to write an order by expression for a series of concatenated strings, but I'm not sure if that's possible or how to do it. I have cobbled together the below
myproject=...
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Loop inside of query in mysql procedure. Is it possible?
I have the following query:
INSERT INTO major (key_1, key_2, ... , key_N)
VALUES (v_1_1, v_1_2, v_1_3, ... , c_1_N)
(v_2_1, v_2_2, v_2_3, ... , c_2_N)
...
(v_K_1, v_K_2, v_K_3, ....
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Query with join and concatenation of one joined table's column
I have the following structure:
Table R Table RZ (n-m) Table Z
------- ----------------- ---------
R1 R1 | Z1 Z1 | "A"
R2 R1 | Z2 Z2 | "B"
R3 ...
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Concatenating Multiple Columns in TSQL
I have the following data
JoinFlag ReferenceType ReferenceValue
A CARRIER Sample#######
A LEASE_NUMBER 17438
A LEASE_NUMBER 6054
A ...
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Elegant way for concatenation
I am looking for the most elegant solution to prevent the addition of the last/ final separator ';' after the last row.
For example the result should be
'Peter,Paul,Jill'
instead of
'Peter,...
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SQL server Like pattern match with CONCAT() always fails
I am facing problem in a simple query script for SQL server. Please help
The script is
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Search_By_Author_And_Name]
(
@Author_name AS [varchar](50)
)
AS
BEGIN
Select B....
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MySQL 5.7 JSON_MERGE combine with GROUP_CONCAT
we have table with JSON column
for example simple:
{"a": 1}
{"b": 2}
run JSON_MERGE query
select JSON_MERGE('{"a": 1}','{"b": 2}')
result correct:
{"a": 1, "b": 2}
run the GROUP_CONCAT query
...
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How to migrate a huge application to CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON
Finally, none of our customers are using SQL Server 2005 anymore, so we can drop support for it and start using all those awesome "new" SQL Server 2008 features (indexed views, filtered indexes, query ...
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Why does Concatenation operator estimate fewer rows than its inputs?
In the following query plan snippet, it seems obvious that the row estimate for the Concatenation operator should be ~4.3 billion rows, or the sum of the row estimates for its two inputs.
However, an ...
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SQL Row concatenation with XML PATH and STUFF giving aggregate sql error
I am trying to query two tables and get results like the following:
Section Names
shoes AccountName1, AccountName2, AccountName3
books AccountName1
The tables are:
CREATE TABLE dbo....
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Concatenate column values [duplicate]
I have a query that uses a couple joins to get a name from another table.
It works okay except that I would like to combine "Examiners Name" instead of having multiple duplicates:
ID | Name ...
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'CONCAT' is not a recognized built-in function name
A client reported that they were running on SQL Server 2012, and we delivered some test queries for testing prior to a final delivery, however:
'CONCAT' is not a recognized built-in function name.
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Mysql trigger with group_concat
I'm trying to create insert and update triggers with SELECT GROUP_CONCAT request on one of the fields;
This select query perfectly works, when I trying it in console, but trigger saves only first ...
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Syntax error with concat in trigger near signal statement
Please help me with syntax for MySQL 5.6.
For some reason I get the error:
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax;
check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version
...
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Concatenate Columns in Stored Procedure [duplicate]
I have a stored procedure which returns a weekly result from input parameters start date and end date. I am getting multiple rows in the result.
Requirement: I want to add the results of columns in a ...
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How to exclude NULL values inside CONCAT MySQL?
If I have this - tadd is the Address table:
CONCAT(tadd.street_number, ' ',
tadd.street_name,', ',
tadd.apt_number,', ',
tadd.city,', ',
tadd....
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convert 1 row as column and concatenate the results to the corresponding column
I have 2 tables
table 1 - apps
-----------
id | name
-----------
1 | abc
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2 | sdf
-----------
3 | dfg
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table 2 - contacts
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id | cnt_type | ...
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query to concatenate columns if record duplicate
My table has two column that is id and name. I want to do concatenate the columns if the if more than two names are same like:
id ...
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Creating a stored procedure and adding date manually to filename
I am new to SQL administration and have been tasked with creating some nightly jobs that send an email with certain details contained within a spreadsheet and so far I have the following:
EXEC msdb....
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Problem with mysql group_concat, complex query, not getting required result
I have 5 tables
college
trade
district
contact
intake
Their relationship looks like this
I'm having problem with the contact table. In this table, cid and location are the primary key. It can have ...
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Adding two columns results in concatenation instead of addition
I need help using addition. When I do it populates using the concatenate function.
I used the following in my access database Total: [ANTI TERROR]+[Records] and instead of returning 1 + 1 = 2 it ...
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Selecting only some columns from a table
I have a MySQL table that consists of around 200 columns.
The name of each column is col_i (i=1 ,2,..200).
Suppose I have to select only first 50 columns, how should I proceed?
I found about the ...
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What is the most efficient way to concatenate strings in SQL Server?
I have this code:
DECLARE @MyTable AS TABLE
(
[Month] INT,
Salary INT
);
INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (1,2000), (1,3100);
SELECT [Month], Salary FROM @MyTable;
Output:
I want to concat the ...
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Concatenate date and varchar
I am need to select the date stored in a column transactionDate datatype date and time stored in column transactionTime datatype varchar from a table transactionTable in mysql. My query is like
...
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How can I use 'system pwd' command with MySql CONCAT() function?
How can I use 'system pwd' command with MySql CONCAT() function? I tried
select concat('test', system pwd);
gives me
ERROR 1583 (42000): Incorrect parameters in the call to native function 'concat'...
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CONCAT() between different alphabet echoes out '&' ampersand
I want to concatenate different alphabet strings and get a weird latin encoding with ampersands after the sixth greek character (I want to concatenate greek and english alphabet strings).
Lets say I ...
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Concatenate 2-3 table field values in 1 table field in access
I have a project that in Access. The problem is I am a newbie in this application and I really couldn't figure out what to do, I have checked out several ways but am still stuck.
I'll be handling a ...
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Insert results of concat
I have a table with 4 columns:
ID ORDER_ID QTY VALUE
1 153 1 0
2 476 1 0
3 453 9 1
4 719 2 2
...
