CONCAT

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The CONCAT() function concatenates several strings

SELECT concat('hello', ' ', 'world');

create.select(concat("hello", " ", "world")).fetch();

The result being

+-------------+
| concat      |
+-------------+
| hello world |
+-------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

concat("hello", " ", "world")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS
('hello' & ' ')(('hello' || ' ') || 'world')

-- ASE, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DERBY, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, ORACLE, POSTGRES, 
-- REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
(('hello' || ' ') || 'world')

-- AURORA_MYSQL, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL
concat('hello', ' ', 'world')

-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
(('hello' + ' ') + 'world')

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.17, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : String functions : CONCAT

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