On Thursday 09 August 2001 17:58, Bernhard Doebler wrote:
> I have a select statement and want to add a Percent sign to the output of
> one expression. Do I have to use Concat-function or is there another way
> (for only one character)?
AFAIK concat is the only way in MySQL, viz:
SELECT CONCAT(vat, '%') AS vat_pc
FROM price
You could of course keep a copy of the numeric value with an added %-sign in
a seperate text field, but I'm sure that would only complicate things further
;-)
Now if only MySQL supported VIEWs ... (*)
HTH
Ian Barwick
(*) See:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/i/Missing_Views.html
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