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CONCAT_WS

Supported by ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The CONCAT_WS() function (where WS = "with separator") concatenates several strings and interleaves a separator:

SELECT concat_ws(',', 'a', 'b', 'c');
create.select(concat(",", "a", "b", "c")).fetch();

The result being

+-----------+
| concat_ws |
+-----------+
| a,b,c     |
+-----------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

concatWs(",", "a", "b")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Spanner, Trino, YugabyteDB

concat_ws(',', 'a', 'b')

BigQuery, Redshift

CASE
  WHEN ',' IS NOT NULL THEN ltrim(
    (CASE
      WHEN 'a' IS NULL THEN ''
      ELSE (',' || 'a')
    END || CASE
      WHEN 'b' IS NULL THEN ''
      ELSE (',' || 'b')
    END),
    ','
  )
END

DB2, Firebird, Hana, Informix, Teradata, Vertica

CASE
  WHEN ',' IS NOT NULL THEN trim(LEADING ',' FROM (CASE
    WHEN 'a' IS NULL THEN ''
    ELSE (',' || 'a')
  END || CASE
    WHEN 'b' IS NULL THEN ''
    ELSE (',' || 'b')
  END))
END

Oracle

CASE
  WHEN ',' IS NULL THEN (CASE
    WHEN 'a' IS NULL THEN ''
    ELSE (',' || 'a')
  END || CASE
    WHEN 'b' IS NULL THEN ''
    ELSE (',' || 'b')
  END)
  ELSE trim(LEADING ',' FROM (CASE
    WHEN 'a' IS NULL THEN ''
    ELSE (',' || 'a')
  END || CASE
    WHEN 'b' IS NULL THEN ''
    ELSE (',' || 'b')
  END))
END

ASE, Access, Sybase

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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