Ok, I have to concatenate two fields together Author and SecondAuthor. SecondAuthor some times has blank values in it.
What I have so far is (thanks Hatton) SELECT LTrim(Rtrim(IsNull(Author, ' ') + '; ' + IsNull(secondAuthor, ' '))) AS Authors FROM table Now the only question is if a book only has one author how do I not have the ";" after the Author. Yes, I know I should break the Authors off into a related table but, that is not in the scope of the project. Thanks Mark W. Breneman -Macromedia Certified ColdFusion 5 Developer -Network / Web Server Administrator Vivid Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 -----Original Message----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: concatenate blank fields in access and SQL > Is there a way to concatenate two fields in access when one of them are > blank? > > Select Title + ' '+ subtitle as fulltitle > from table > > Fulltitle is blank when ether field is blank. > > Does any one know if this works in SQL server 7. Is SQL server adding a NULL field to anything turns the entire statement to NULL Use the IsNull function to get around this: SELECT LTrim(Rtrim(IsNull(Title, ' ') + ' ' + IsNull(Subtitle, ' '))) AS fulltitle FROM table This should return the recordset you're looking for. Hatton ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
