sqlshots: SELECT-TRIM-CASE-CONCAT
In this particular scenario I needed to concatenate a set of fields into a single column. So essentially I needed to trim all the leading zeros from the street number field first (via my udf_TrimLeadingZeros), then pieced the street number, pre-direction, street name and suffix all into one field. However, every row did not have a pre-direction or a suffix; nonetheless, I needed everything formatted (evenly spaced between words) and displayed as a single string.
So I figured I would use a CASE expression (http://bit.ly/PiYQF) in conjunction with a String Concatenation (http://bit.ly/FJtq9) to achieve my end result. Typically I see a period (.) appended to the pre-direction, but in this case it wasn't required. However if you do need it simply add a period to line 14 between the ticks '. ' of the attached select script (see pre-direction with periods screen shot for details).
Pre-Direction without periods
Pre-Direction with periods
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