I’m currently building a simple view and need to combine both the First Name
and Last Name
columns to create a new Customer
column. If a First Name
and Last Name
are not provided I’d like to change this new combined value to ‘Name Not Provided’.
Currently I use a simple select statement:
LastName + ', ' + FirstName AS Customer
which appears to work fine for combing the data but if the data doesn’t exist, it will just return ', '
. How do I go about changing this so it returns ‘Name Not Provided’?
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Answer
SELECT Customer = CASE WHEN FirstName IS NULL AND LastName IS NULL THEN 'Name Not Provided' WHEN FirstName IS NULL AND LastName IS NOT NULL THEN LastName WHEN FirstName IS NOT NULL AND LastName IS NULL THEN FirstName ELSE LastName + ', ' + FirstName END FROM dbo.TableName