How can I add text to SQL Column

Question

I want to update 1 column in SQL Table. Example: Current value in column is like this

2013/09/pizzalover.jpg 
2013/10/pasta.jpg       

Now i wa

Answer 1

You can simply update column using statement

update TableName set ColumnName  = 'www.mypizza.com/' + ColumnName  

Answer 2

OP doesn't specify which DBMS they are using. The following is for Postgres to update a text column by adding a prefix to it (tested with PostgreSQL v11):

UPDATE my_table 
SET column_1  = 'start_text_' || column_1
WHERE column_1 LIKE 'prefix_%'
; 

Answer 3

If you are using MYSql, you can use the concat() as :

update tableName set columnName= CONCAT('www.mypizza.com/', columnName);

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If you are using oracle you can use the concatenation operator '||' as :

update tableName set "columnName"='www.mypizza.com/'||"columnName";

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In SQL Server you can use + for string concatenation as:

update tableName set name='www.mypizza.com/'+columnName;

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Answer 4

You mean like this?:

SELECT 'www.mypizza.com/' + ColumnName AS ColumnName FROM TableName

Depending on the rest of your application environment, there is likely a much better way to accomplish this. But in terms of just using SQL to add static text to a column in a SELECT statement, you can just concatenate the text directly in the statement.

Or, if you wanted to UPDATE the column values, something like this:

UPDATE TableName SET ColumnName = 'www.mypizza.com/' + ColumnName

Same principle, just using an UPDATE instead of a SELECT, which will modify the underlying data instead of just modifying the view of the data.

Answer 5

First get the information stored in your database and then edit it, you can do that like this:

<?php 
$query = "SELECT * FROM  `blog-posts`  WHERE `id` = 11";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$post = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$title = $post['title'];
$title .= "aapje";
echo $title
?>

And then update your database like normal:

$updateq = "UPDATE `blog-posts`  SET `title` = '$title' WHERE `id` = 11";