Syntax to concatenate two columns

Question

I want to concatenate two fields of my Access 2007 database.

This is my query:

sql="SELECT CONCAT(COGNOME & ' ' & NOME) AS NOMECOMPLETO FROM clienti WHERE NOMECOMPLETO LIKE '%Rossi Paolo%'" 

But it does not work, what is the syntax error?

Answer 1

MS Access does not look like other SQL dialects. This should be closer to what you want:

SELECT (COGNOME & " " & NOME) AS NOMECOMPLETO
FROM clienti
WHERE (COGNOME & " " & NOME) LIKE "*Rossi Paolo*";

Changes:

• There is no CONCAT() .
• & is used for string concatentation.
• Double quotes are used for strings.
• The wildcard for LIKE is * .