How to merge two columns into one result column

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Is there a way to return two columns as one in mysql.

Something in the lines of...
Table Movie.
Id
Title
TitleSub

select id, title+titlesub as combinedName from table

result
ID.....combinedName
1......Bob+Marley
2......Star Wars + Thumb Wars
3......Underworld + Vacation
4....

Posted 12-Mar-10 7:38am

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Sandeep Mewara · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-12T09:50:00

Yes. You can concatenate column values in SQL.

SQL

SELECT 
  Id, (TITLE + TITLESUB) AS CombinedName
FROM 
  Movie

You can read about the same here.[^]

Posted 12-Mar-10 9:50am