Comments on: PL/SQL concatenating names http://www.mandymag.com/2007/01/04/plsql-concatenating-names/ yes I've changed my theme again! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mandymag http://www.mandymag.com/2007/01/04/plsql-concatenating-names/#comment-608 mandymag Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:22 +0000 http://www.mandymag.com/?p=146#comment-608 Thanks bork! Yes I can see how the extra substr is not necessary.. :) Thanks bork! Yes I can see how the extra substr is not necessary.. :)

]]> By: Matt http://www.mandymag.com/2007/01/04/plsql-concatenating-names/#comment-602 Matt Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:49:43 +0000 http://www.mandymag.com/?p=146#comment-602 Looks good! Once suggestion for a bit more efficiency you could leave out the substr in the first section of the decode. As so: first_name||' '||decode(middle_name_field,null,'',substr(middle_name_field,1,1)||'. ')||last_name_field Looks good! Once suggestion for a bit more efficiency you could leave out the substr in the first section of the decode. As so:

first_name||’ ‘||decode(middle_name_field,null,”,substr(middle_name_field,1,1)||’. ‘)||last_name_field

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