How to Concatenate Numbers and Strings to Format Numbers in T-SQL?

Change this:

SET @ActualWeightDIMS= @Actual_Dims_Lenght + 'x' + 
    @Actual_Dims_Width + 'x' + @Actual_Dims_Height;

To this:

SET @ActualWeightDIMS= CAST(@Actual_Dims_Lenght as varchar(3)) + 'x' + 
    CAST(@Actual_Dims_Width as varchar(3)) + 'x' + 
    CAST(@Actual_Dims_Height as varchar(3));

Change this:

SET @ActualWeightDIMS = @ActualWeight;

To this:

SET @ActualWeightDIMS = CAST(@ActualWeight as varchar(50));

You need to use CAST. Learn all about CAST and CONVERT here, because data types are important!


select 'abcd' + ltrim(str(1)) + ltrim(str(2))

A couple of quick notes:

  • It's "length" not "lenght"
  • Table aliases in your query would probably make it a lot more readable

Now onto the problem...

You need to explicitly convert your parameters to VARCHAR before trying to concatenate them. When SQL Server sees @my_int + 'X' it thinks you're trying to add the number "X" to @my_int and it can't do that. Instead try:

SET @ActualWeightDIMS =
     CAST(@Actual_Dims_Lenght AS VARCHAR(16)) + 'x' +
     CAST(@Actual_Dims_Width  AS VARCHAR(16)) + 'x' +
     CAST(@Actual_Dims_Height  AS VARCHAR(16))

If you are using SQL Server 2012+ you can use CONCAT function in which we don't have to do any explicit conversion

SET @ActualWeightDIMS = Concat(@Actual_Dims_Lenght, 'x', @Actual_Dims_Width, 'x' 
                        , @Actual_Dims_Height)

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