SQL: Insert a linebreak in varchar string

Question

I\'ve searched StackOverflow for all the possible solutions concerning how to insert a linebreak in a SQL text string. I\'ve referred this link but to no avail. How to inser

Answer 1

The CR/LF chars are there, it's just that in the format of your output, they are being ignored.

I've created a fiddle to illustrate this, with 2 VARCHAR columns. In the first one I insert the text with no CR/LF, in the second I include them

CREATE TABLE sample (dex INT, colnocr VARCHAR(50), col VARCHAR(50)) ;
insert into sample (dex, colnocr, col) values 
(2, 
 'This is line 1.' + 'This is line 2.',
 'This is line 1.' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) + 'This is line 2.'
)
;

if you run the query

SELECT * FROM sample

The result in plain text are:

| dex |                        colnocr |                              col |
|-----|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|   2 | This is line 1.This is line 2. | This is line 1.
This is line 2. |

but if you run it in tabular :

dex     colnocr                                                     col
2       This is line 1.This is line 2.      This is line 1. This is line 2.

Check it : SqlFiddleDemo