CONCAT and STUFF Functions in SQL Server 2012

We often need to combine two or more string values to use this combined string value in reporting. Although there was a way to do that in earlier versions of SQL Server, starting with SQL Server 2012 we have CONCAT function for this specific situation. This T-SQL function also takes care of data type conversion and handling NULLs appropriately. Apart from that, there has been a STUFF T-SQL function in SQL Server, which you can use to insert\replace a string value into another string value. The difference lies in the fact that CONCAT allows you to append a string value at the end of another string value whereas STUFF allows you insert or replace a string value into or in between another string value. I am going to demonstrate these functions and their real life usages in this article. For more information, click here.