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Hi Robert,
Thanks for answering.
Your suggestion, however, do not work on my Opensuse Leap 42.3 /
LibreOffice 5.3.3.2 configuration. 

I use the Query design feature to enter

"Vorname" || IFNULL( ' & ' || "Partnervorname", ' ' ) || "Nachname"
 or

"Nachname" || IFNULL( ', ' || "Vorname", ' ')

Both above return 0 (yes, zero!) for every record.
Only the "Partnervorname" field has NULL values. I didn't expect
concatenation to be treated like 'multiplication', but I learn
something new every day! Neverthless, something is not right here.

However, 
COALESCE ( CONCAT( "Vorname", SUBSTR( ' & ', 1 ), "Partnervorname",
SPACE( 1 ), "Nachname" ), CONCAT( "Vorname", SPACE( 1 ), "Nachname" ) )

delivers the required result.

Cheers
Harvey




On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 15:02 +0200, Robert Großkopf wrote:
Hey Harvey,


I wanted to use the CONCAT function in a Base query. However, it
seems
that if ONE of the elements of the list to be concatenated is NULL
then
the CONCAT function returns a NULL. Am I right? Is it a bug or a
feature?

feature, because anythin, which is connected with NULL should be
NULL.

Do the following

SELECT "surname"||', '||"forename" AS "name" FROM "table"

for concatenate. You could concatenate more than two fields in this
way.
If one field is NULL all will be NULL.

Now

SELECT "surname"||IFNULL(', '||"forename",'') AS "name" FROM "table"

will set '' for comma and forename if forename is NULL. Will only the
surname will be shown, if forename is NULL.

Regards

Robert
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