| description | Concatenation Operators |
|---|---|
| title | Concatenation Operators | Microsoft Docs |
| ms.date | 02/17/2022 |
| ms.prod | sql |
| ms.technology | analysis-services |
| ms.custom | mdx |
| ms.topic | reference |
| ms.author | owend |
| ms.reviewer | owend |
| author | minewiskan |
The concatenation operator is the plus sign (+). You can combine, or concatenate, two or more character strings into a single character string. You can also concatenate binary strings.
The following code is an example of concatenation operator that combines the product name with the product's unique name:
WITH MEMBER Measures.ProductName AS
Product.Product.CurrentMember.Name + " (" + Product.Product.CurrentMember.UniqueName + ")"
SELECT
{Measures.ProductName} ON COLUMNS,
Product.Product.Members ON ROWS
FROM [Adventure Works]
When the strings used in a concatenation both have the same collation, the resulting concatenated string has the same collation as the inputs. When the strings used in a concatenation have different collations, the rules of collation precedence determine the collation of the resulting concatenated string. For more information, see Languages and Collations (Analysis Services).