Example: Concatenating Last Name With First Name - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Functions, Expressions, and Predicates

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Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-07-28
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Change the SELECT and the separator to obtain last and first names:

   SELECT lname||', '||fname 
   FROM names 
   ORDER BY lname;

The result is:

   ((lname||', ')||fname) 
   ----------------------
   Brown, Alan 
   Kanieski, Carol 
   Ryan, Loretta 
   Villegas, Arnando