Question

I’m trying to get the value of a variable using SQL select queries. Nothing new here.

SELECT p.ProductCode FROM Products_Joined AS p

However, I am wondering if it’s possible to prefix text to that result like;

SELECT 'XJ' + p.ProductCode FROM Product_Joined AS p

So it would look like XJ2156. I’m trying to prefix the data with a predefined string of text. Does anybody know how to accomplish this?

Answer 1

The correct way is exactly what you said in the question:

SELECT 'XJ' + p.ProductCode FROM Product_Joined AS p

Note that this only works as long as ProductCode is a text type (varchar, nvarchar…).
If it’s numeric, you have to convert it to text first:

SELECT 'XJ' + CAST(p.ProductCode AS varchar(30)) FROM Product_Joined AS p