Re: How to merge several attributes and Delete an attribute

Well, I am not familiar with functions, Do they have better performance than 
the plain query as the following?

select * from table where Firstname like 'blah' or middlename like 
'blah'....

Thank you
Annie

>From: Vladimir Terziev <vladimirt@rila.bg>
>To: "Yan Bai" <annie_job@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [SQL] How to merge several attributes and Delete an attribute
>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:21:31 +0200
>
>    Hi,
>    I sugest you to use 'textcat' function. Something like this:
>        select textcat(textcat(textcat(textcat($1, " "), $2), " "), $3)
>    ' language 'SQL';
>
>    select * from your_table where textcat(textcat(textcat(textcat(FirstName, 
>' '), MiddleName), ' '), LastName) like '%somename%';
>
>    Good luck!
>
>        Vladimir
>
>
>On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:34:40 +0000
>"Yan Bai" <annie_job@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > My initial table has 3 attributes: FirstName, MiddleName and LastName. 
>Now I
> > want to merge them into one, then I could make a search action using 
>LIKE
> > more easily.
> > what should i do for that?
> >
> > Also, I want to know how to delete one attribute from a table.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Annie
> >
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