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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Creating Excerpts

Ân Nguyễn Hoàng
PLUS
Ân Nguyễn Hoàng
Courses Plus Student 3,980 Points

is this a bug ?

I have received the following message: "Bummer: Expecting results like 'L Chalkley' not 'L Chalkley'. " Although the two results are the same.

here is my code : select substr(first_name,1,1) || " " || last_name as initial from customers

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,184 Points

The data might look the same, but the number of columns is different.

The challenge asks for two columns, but this code is concatenating everything into one column.