Build a string in an sql table and insert into another table - sql-server

Question

Say I have a table Name_Address as follows:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Name_Address](
[First_Name] [nvarchar] (50) NULL,
[Last_Name] [nvarchar] (50) NULL,
[Address] [nvarchar] (50) NULL,
[City] [nvarchar] (50) NULL,
[State] [nvarchar] (50) NULL,
[Zip] [nvarchar] (50) NULL,
[Phone] [nvarchar] (50) NULL,
[Cell] [nvarchar] (50) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
Is there a way in SQL that I can build a string:
<First Name>John<Last Name>Smith<Address>1233 Your Street<City>Home Town<State>NY<Zip>123456-1234<Phone>111-111-1111<Cell>222-222-222
and insert it into another table?
Original post did not show the xml tags as part of the desired result: without code formatting the tags were interpreted literally and were not displayed.

Answer 1

You would just use the + to concatenate the values together.
INSERT INTO yourNewTable (newRecord)
SELECT First_Name + Last_Name + Address + City + State + Zip + Phone + Cell
FROM dbo.Name_Address
Or add spaces:
INSERT INTO yourNewTable (newRecord)
SELECT First_Name + ' ' + Last_Name + ' '
+ Address + ' ' + City + ' ' + State + ' ' + Zip
+ Phone + ' ' + Cell
FROM dbo.Name_Address
You can also use FOR XML PATH if you want this in XML format:
select *
from name_address
for xml path
see SQL Fiddle with Demo
Or you can hand-code the XML tags, if you want to insert the full record into another table you can use:
insert into yourNewTable (yourNewRecord)
select '<FirstName>'+[First_Name]
+ '<Last_Name>'+[Last_Name]
+'<Address>'+[Address]
+'<City>'+[City]
+'<State>'+[State]
+'<Zip>'+[Zip]
+'<Phone>'+[Phone]
+'<Cell>'+[Cell]
from name_address
see Sql Fiddle with Select Demo

Answer 2

INSERT INTO MyTable(MyString)
SELECT
'<FirstName>'+[First_Name] + '<Last_Name>'+[Last_Name] +'<Address>'+[Address] +<City>+[City] +<State>+[State] +'<Zip>'+[Zip] +'<Phone>'+[Phone] +'<Cell>'+[Cell]
FROM [dbo].[Name_Address]

Answer 3

You can concatenate fields together using ||:
select First_name||' '||Last_Name||' '+Address . . .
from NameAddress
To insert into another table, you can do something like:
insert into AnotherTable
select '<First Name>'||First_name||'<Last Name>'||Last_Name||'<Address>'+Address . . .
from NameAddress