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SQL 2000 Concatenate text fields within a view

  • March 25, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    #204812

    I'm using sql2000.

    I have a table with 4 text fields which need to be referenced in a view.

    The fields are called : Overview, description, ingredients, usage

    What I want to do is the following:

    create view MyView

    select

    productid,

    overview + '

    ' + description + '

    ' + ingredients + '

    ' + usage as LongDescription

    from

    myTable

    Then, in my code I would write:

    select productid,LongDescription from MyView where productid=123

    The data in the fields is > 8000 chars so I can't cast the data as varchar(8000)

    Anyone have any other ideas??

    I was thinking about creating a function, but I'm not 100% sure how??

  • March 26, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    #794288

    Can you cast it as text?

  • August 26, 2008 at 9:53 am

    #863241

    Even if you concatenate and convert to text using something like...

    [font="Courier New"]SELECT CAST('1'+'2'+'3' AS TEXT)[/font]

    ...you still won't be able to see more than 8192 characters in a single column, view or not... please see the following article for an outstanding bit of information on the TEXT datatype.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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