I don\'t know concatenation operator for MySQL.
I have tried this code for concatenation:
SELECT vend_name || \' (\' || vend_country || \')\' FROM Ve
|| is the ANSI standard string concatenation operator, supported by most databases (notably not MS SQL Server). MySQL also supports it, but you have to SET sql_mode='PIPES_AS_CONCAT'; or SET sql_mode='ANSI'; first.
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