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

SQL Functions, Expressions, and Predicates

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-30
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Product Category
Teradata Vantageā„¢

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