Column Aligning Text Data in mssql

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There have there columns - Product, Description_Sales,Description_Purchase in table .

I would like to write sql script for selecting data by left aligning for each column data.
The result of my script below is showed as combine sentences.
what I want to do is first column with left align then left a few space, after that send column with left align then space ,
then third column with left align.

SQL

CREATE procedure SearchbyProductDescription
(
    @status nvarchar(255)
)
as
select  Product.Product_Code + Product.Description_Sales  + Product.Description_Purchase  from Product where Product.Description_Sales like @status + '%'

thanks,
ttds,

[Edit]Code block added[/Edit]

Posted 17-Mar-13 5:41am

ttds

Updated 17-Mar-13 5:45am

Thomas Daniels

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Mike Meinz · Answer 1 · 2013-03-17T06:01:00

Is this what you are looking for?

SQL

SELECT LEFT(CONCAT(Product.Product_Code,SPACE(8)),8),
       LEFT(CONCAT(Product.Description_Sales,SPACE(12)),12),
       LEFT(CONCAT(Product.Description_Purchase,SPACE(30)),30)
       FROM Product where Product.Description_Sales LIKE CONCAT(@status,'%')

This assumes that the column lengths should be 8, 12, and 30 respectively. You will need to alter the 8, 12, 30 numbers to your needs.

An Alternative:

SQL

SELECT CONCAT(LEFT(CONCAT(Product.Product_Code,SPACE(8)),8),
       LEFT(CONCAT(Product.Description_Sales,SPACE(12)),12),
       LEFT(CONCAT(Product.Description_Purchase,SPACE(30)),30))
       FROM Product where Product.Description_Sales LIKE CONCAT(@status,'%')