Question

I have a problem with the following query :

SELECT DISTINCT city || strftime("%Y", begintime) FROM Texts_original1

The query itself works but results themselves are concatenated so instead of for example :

city = Dublin 
strftime("%Y", begintime) = 2008

I get :

city || strftime("%Y", begintime) = Dublin2008

Any ideas how to avoid that concatenation and make the response be separated to different columns ?

Answer 1

The || operator is “concatenate” – it joins together the two strings of its operands. (Source)

So, whatever it is you’re trying to do, the || operator isn’t what you want.