Does anyone know why this cannot be done through the gui?



Ross Johnson wrote:
There was a similar question recently where the backend was PostgreSQL
and it's syntax was slightly different. Translating Andrew's SELECT,
would become:

SELECT `FirstName` || ' ' || `LastName` AS 'Name' FROM `Customers`

There was a suspicion that this was standard SQL syntax, but nobody was
sure. But the 'Run SQL Direct' was the key.

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 16:58 -0700, Shane Johnson wrote:
  
Thank you Drew.  I will give that a try. Will have have to build the 
whole query with SQL or can I just do the column I need to modify?

Thanks
Shane


Andrew Jensen wrote:

    
Hi shane,

Using OO 2.0.1 on WinXp and connecting to a MS Access database I can 
perform a cancatination such as this:
SELECT `FirstName` & ' ' & `LastName` AS 'Name' FROM `Customers` 
`Customers`

You must run this query as 'Run SQL Direct', which in the Query 
builder is the button with a green check mark over the letters SQL.

HTH

Drew

Shane Johnson wrote:

      
Good Afternoon.       I was referred here from the OOo users group.  
The following is a paste of the message I sent to that list.  If 
anyone can help me I would appreciate it.

Thank you
Shane


        
I am converting from Access to Openoffice and was trying to run  a 
query
against a ODBC source.  In Access I could do something like the 
following

fieldname: [table:Data1] + [table:Data2}

and have it spit out a concatenated result.  I tried this in Base 
and it
will not let me do this.  Did I miss something or is there a different
way to do this.

I am running 2.0.1 on Win2K.(Let me know if you need more info)

I went through the how-to on Base and it didn't really help.  If there
is some other resource you could point me to that I  couldn't find, 
that
would be appreciated as well.
          


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