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How can I generate a string in SQL which contains an empty string: ‘ ‘
I tried this:
DECLARE @TEST NVARCHAR(50), @COL1 NVARCHAR(50), @COL2 NVARCHAR(50)
SELECT @COL1 = ‘A’, @COL2 = ‘B’SELECT @TEST = ‘SELECT ” [‘+ @COL1 + ‘], ”[‘ + @COL2+ ‘]’
SELECT @TEST
But the string ends up looking like:
SELECT ‘ [A], ‘[B]
When it needs to look like:
SELECT ” [A], ”[B]
Thanks.
Two single quotes in a string in SQL is treated as a single escaped single quote, so in order to generate two in the output, you need to put 4 in the input, like so: