Problem using "AS" to add 2 numbers

i need to add 2 results from a query to get this string: 2.2006
(that represents the number of the w, and the year)
i have a table that holds these 2 columns ("w" , "year") as integers
(i can't change it to string)
i want to return them as one result, but when i do this:
SELECT w + year AS [result w]
the result i get is the w added to the year (since they both are
integers)
how do i get the result as an added string?
thanks!SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), w) + CONVERT(CHAR(4), year) AS [result w]
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>i need to add 2 results from a query to get this string: 2.2006
> (that represents the number of the w, and the year)
> i have a table that holds these 2 columns ("w" , "year") as integers
> (i can't change it to string)
> i want to return them as one result, but when i do this:
> SELECT w + year AS [result w]
> the result i get is the w added to the year (since they both are
> integers)
> how do i get the result as an added string?
> thanks!
>|||declare @.w int
declare @.year int
declare @.string varchar(16)
set @.w = 2
set @.year = 2006
select @.string = cast(@.w as varchar(2)) + '.' + cast (@.year as
char(4) )
print @.string|||thanks!
that really works