Look for concat :
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/string-functions.html

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:51:34 -0500, David DeSana
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> I need to modify the value of file names in a table.  The strings represent
> an image file path and are stored in a char column in the table.  Here is a
> sample of the values:
> 
> \products\1_TH.JPG
> \products\2_TH.JPG
> 
> I would like to perform the following
> 
> UPDATE test.Items SET Desc='New'+Desc
> 
> I've been able to get the update to work on numeric values based on the
> MySQL docs but cannot figure out how to perform the update on strings.
> 
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