CONCAT'ing NULL fields

Question

I have a table with three fields, FirstName, LastName and Email.

Here\'s some dummy data:

FirstName | LastName | Email
Adam        West       adam@west.c         


        

Answer 1

You can always use the CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL setting..

just run SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF and then all null concatenations will result in text and not null..