Question

Suppose I have a query likes:

SELECT name FROM product WHERE id = 28;

The result is “HTC Desire HD”

I want this result to be replaced with XX in the string “I Like XX”, after replacing, the string is “I Like HTC Desire HD”

Likes the PHP printf function, can I use MySQL to do that?

Answer 1

That would be:

select 'I Like ' || name from product where id = 28;

in regular SQL. I’m not entirely certain that will work in MySQL unless you have PIPES_AS_CONCAT configured, but the equivalent:

select CONCAT('I Like ', name) from product where id = 28;

should be fine.