>> FB 1.5
>> The following SQL (and variations of it) consistently fail to run (where ClientNameis a domain defined as varchar(20), and Client_ID is a integer):
>>
>> Update ClientInfo CI
>> set ClientName= 'A' + cast(CI.Client_ID as varchar(10))
>>
>> How can I update ClientName?
>
> In SQL the "+" symbol is an arithmetic operator. The string concatenation operator is two pipe symbols ( || ). So:

Possibly he is coming from a Microsoft SQL Server background, because
'+' is used as string concatenation operator there.



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