Question

I have a several strings, which i want to append to use it as a statement:

string tableToSelect = "COUNT(Table) as Table";

StringBuilder sqlQuery = new StringBuilder();

sqlQuery.Append("SELECT Month,");
sqlQuery.Append(tableToSelect);
sqlQuery.Append(" from ");
sqlQuery.Append("tbl_TEST");

If I copy-paste the result into SQL Server Management Studio it gives me following:

SELECT Month, COUNT(Table)-as-Table from tbl_TEST

Any ideas?

Answer 1

That should be fine; thoughts:

• are you sure those are regular spaces in your local copy, and not some other whitespace unicode character?
• is any other code tweaking the query before executing it?

.NET will not invent dashes.

If I copy-paste the result into SQL Server Management Studio

and from where exactly are you copying? (since you haven’t even called sqlQuery.ToString() yet).