Replace parts of a string in sql

Question

I have a column which contains the string in the below format:

Account Number [1.######] belongs to customer [2.########] residing in [3.######] for the selected period. 

I want to replace the placeholders of 1, 2 and 3 with actual value which will come from a table.

Something like below:

Account Number 1234 belongs to John residing in London for the selected period. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Ram

Answer 1

Starting from SQL Server 2016 onwards, it supports an enhanced version of the FORMATMESSAGE() function.

Message can have a maximum of 2,047 characters.

Here is a conceptual example of it.

SQL

DECLARE @message VARCHAR(2048) = 'Account Number %s belongs to customer %s residing in %s for the selected period.';
DECLARE @AccountNo VARCHAR(20) = '1234'
    , @Customer VARCHAR(20) = 'John'
    , @Location VARCHAR(20) = 'London'
    , @Result VARCHAR(2048);

SET @Result = FORMATMESSAGE(@message
            , @AccountNo
            , @Customer
            , @Location);

-- test
SELECT @Result;

Output

Account Number 1234 belongs to customer John residing in London for the selected period.

Answer 2

在您的选择语句中添加以下内容：

[New Field] = CONCAT('Account ',table.field,' belongs to customer ',table.field,'residing in 'table.field' for theselected period.')