How can I add text to my column's select statement

Question

I want to prepend text to sql select,

I can do this:

SELECT (1328724983-time)/60/60 AS status 
FROM voting 
WHERE account = 'ThElitEyeS' AND vid = 1 

This will show time left.

What I'd like to do is this though:

SELECT 'Please try after' + (1328724983-time)/60/60 AS status 
FROM voting 
WHERE account = 'ThElitEyeS' AND vid = 1 

Is there any way I can accomplish this?

Answer 1

Just use cast or convert to convert it all to varchar for instance.

SELECT 'Please try after' + CAST((1328724983-time)/60/60 as varchar(80)) AS status 
  FROM voting 
  WHERE account = 'ThElitEyeS' AND vid = 1;

See the MSDN on Cast / Convert

Based on your comments you can do:

SELECT 'Please try again after' + CAST(MyColForHours as varchar(25)) + ' hours', AnyOtherColumns FROM Table