Example: Concatenating First Name with Last Name - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
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Consider a table called names that contains last and first names columns, defined as VARCHAR, as listed here:

lname         fname  
------------  ------------
Ryan          Loretta
Villegas      Arnando 
Kanieski      Carol 
Brown         Alan

Use string concatenation and a space separator to combine first and last names:

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

The result is:

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