What is the string concatenation operator in Oracle?
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07-07-2019 - |
Question
What is the string concatenation operator in Oracle SQL?
Are there any "interesting" features I should be careful of?
(This seems obvious, but I couldn't find a previous question asking it).
Solution
It is ||
, for example:
select 'Mr ' || ename from emp;
The only "interesting" feature I can think of is that 'x' || null
returns 'x'
, not null
as you might perhaps expect.
OTHER TIPS
There's also concat, but it doesn't get used much
select concat('a','b') from dual;
I would suggest concat when dealing with 2 strings, and || when those strings are more than 2:
select concat(a,b)
from dual
or
select 'a'||'b'||'c'||'d'
from dual
DECLARE
a VARCHAR2(30);
b VARCHAR2(30);
c VARCHAR2(30);
BEGIN
a := ' Abc ';
b := ' def ';
c := a || b;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(c);
END;
output:: Abc def
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