concatenating results from SQL query and NULL columns

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Published on 2010-05-11T14:54:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 15:14 UTC
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I need to concatenate several columns of a table into a single value, then show that value in an asp dropdownlist. The SQL code I'm issuing is as follows:

SELECT UserID, CustomerNum, UserName + ' - ' + UserAddress + ',' + UserCity + ' ' + UserState AS UserInfo FROM Users WHERE (CustomerNum = @CustomerNum) ORDER BY UserName

I then set 'UserInfo' as the text field in the dropdownlist.

This generally works, except occasionally one of the columns in the database is null (for example, UserState). When that happens, the entire concatenation is null, and I get an empty entry in the dropdownlist.

Is there something in SQLServer that will allow me to ignore those NULL results, or will I have to code something up in the DataBind event?

Thanks

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