Combining cities and states using +
In this lesson, you learned how to combine columns into one.
The clients table has one column, city, to store the cities where the clients live, and another column, state, to store the state of the city.
| client_id | client_name | client_surname | city | state |
|-----------|-------------|----------------|-----------|----------|
| 1 | Miriam | Antona | Las Vegas | Nevada |
| 2 | Astrid | Harper | Chicago | Illinois |
| 3 | David | Madden | Phoenix | Arizona |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
You need to combine city and state columns into one, to have the following format: 'Las Vegas, Nevada'.
You will use + operator to do it.
This exercise is part of the course
Cleaning Data in SQL Server Databases
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
SELECT
client_name,
client_surname,
-- Concatenate city with state
___ + '___' + ___ AS city_state
FROM clients