[jira] Commented: (DERBY-1306) Support more than just varchar with vertical bars on query

["Bernt M. Johnsen (JIRA)" <de...@db.apache.org>]

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Bernt M. Johnsen commented on DERBY-1306:
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The concatenation operator is in SQL 2003 defined

In Ch 6.28 < string value expression>
as
<concatenation> ::= <character value expression> <concatenation operator> <character factor>
or
<blob concatenation> ::= <blob value expression> <concatenation operator> <blob factor> 

and in Ch. 6.35 <value array expression>
as
<array concatenation> ::= <array value expression 1> <concatenation operator> <array primary>

Thus Derby behaves correctly wrt. the SQL specification. 

> Support more than just varchar with vertical bars on query
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-1306
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1306
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 10.1.2.1
>         Environment: Relevant for this?  Windows XP
>            Reporter: Bill Robertson
>
> I'm not sure if this is ij or derby proper, but the concat operator || should work for just about any data type.  Derby is zero maintenance, but data rarely is, and a good sql interface is important.  Often it's very convenient to write a query that generates other sql statements and that's difficult w/o concatination.
> e.g. create a table with a timestamp column, assume that the column name is originated.
> Try the following query:
> ij> select month(originated) || '-' || year(originated) from review;
> get the following error:
> ERROR 42846: Cannot convert types 'INTEGER' to 'VARCHAR'.
> The conversion to a string should pretty much work all the time unless the operand is some sort of blob type.

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