Concatenation Operators

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.AllMembers ON COLUMNS,
   Product.Product.Members ON ROWS
FROM [Adventure Works]

Language Considerations

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 Working with Languages and Collations (SSAS).

See Also

Reference

MDX Operator Reference (MDX)

Concepts

Operators (MDX Syntax)

Help and Information

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