How to add a space between two text in SQL code - sql

Question

How to add space in this SQL text?
ISNULL('phone: ' + [phone],' ') + 'some space' + ISNULL('email: ' +[email],' ') +
What can be used in the place of 'some space ' so that space is put in between the texts ? any help , thank you.
EDITED
I want the phone and email displayed far apart eachother may be 100px in between them
SPACE function works in SQL but not in browser. what is wrong?

Answer 1

Instead of just writing some space, literally use spaces
('phone: ' + [phone],' ') + 'some space' + ('email: ' +[email],' ') +
to
('phone: ' + [phone],' ') + ' ' + ('email: ' +[email],' ') +

Answer 2

I'm unclear if this is what you're asking but, depending on your variant of SQL, you might not be able to concatenate text with "+".
Rather there is generally some flavor of the concat() or concatenate() function that serves this purpose.
eg. concat(isnull(concat('phone: ', [phone]),' '), 'some space')... etc

Answer 3

I think you want:
SELECT LTRIM(COALESCE(' phone: ' + [phone], '') + COALESCE(' email: ' + [email], ''))
This will return one or the other (or both) with no leading spaces.

Answer 4

If this is being displayed on a website, then one option is to make sure there is a clear 1-pixel gif on the website, and add the img tag for that gif and style it with the amount of horizontal space that you want.
But then I haven't done web dev in so long that 1-pixel gifs could be totally passe today for all I know.

Answer 5

Use ASCII code for horizontal tab which is CHAR(9) along with CONCAT function.
You can also do a function with a loop to set your spacing
DECLARE #tabSpacing varchar(50)='';
DECLARE #counter int = 50;
WHILE #counter>0
BEGIN
SET #tabSpacing+=CHAR(9);
SET #counter-=1;
END
SELECT CONCAT(ISNULL('phone: ' + [phone],' '),#tabSpacing,ISNULL('email: ' +[email],' ')) AS Info FROM Users

Answer 6

It may help someone when a need arises. My question was solved this way
DECLARE #wider_space NVARCHAR(50);
SET #wider_space = '& nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp;& nbsp ; & nbsp ;& nbsp ; & nbsp ;';
---avoid spaces when used
ISNULL('Phone: ' + [phone] + #wider_space,' ') + ISNULL('Email: ' +[email] + #wider_space,' ') + ...
and continues like this to concat 6 columns together.