Question

I have a really long string of text that I would like to update a particular column in a table. The update statement in sql query analyzer is on one long line currently. Is there a way to break up the update statment into multiple lines for easier reading of the update statement?

Answer 1

Query analyzer lets you put line breaks into literals:

insert into tbl (x) values ('hello
world')

But this inserts a CR as well. The other suggestion:

insert into tbl (x) values ('hello ' +
'world')

is standard procedure.