String manipulation is one of the common requirement for every project. There are many String functions already available in SQL Server but in SQL Server 2017 has some more string functions which ease the developer’s life. CONCAT_WS string function is one of them.
CONCAT_WS :
It concatenates a variable numbers of strings using the first argument as separator. Here, WS stands for With Separator. It returns a string. The size and type depend on the input parameter. Separator can be an expression of any character type. All arguments are implicitly converted to string type first and are then concatenated using the separator. It returns NULL if separator is NULL. It ignores the SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL {ON|OFF} setting. If all arguments are NULL, then it returns an empty string of type varchar (1). If any argument is passed as Null, then it ignores them.
Syntax: CONCAT_WS (separator, argument1, argument1 [, argumentN]… )
Note: It requires a separator and a minimum of two arguments
In the above example you can see how it behaves in different scenarios. This function is very much helpful and flexible for string concatenation.
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