Combine First, Middle Initial, Last name and Suffix in T-SQL (No extra spaces)
- by Paul
I'm trying not to reinvent the wheel here...I have these four fields
[tbl_Contacts].[FirstName],
[tbl_Contacts].[MiddleInitial],
[tbl_Contacts].[LastName],
[tbl_Contacts].[Suffix]
And I want to create a FullName field in a view, but I can't have extra spaces if fields are blank...So I can't do FirstName + ' ' + MiddleInitial + ' ' + LastName + ' ' + Suffix...Because if there is no middle initial or suffix I'd have 2 extra spaces in the field. I think I need a Case statement, but I thought someone would have a handy method for this...Also, the middleinitial and suffix may be null.