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Posted by Daniel Sibanda
Daniel Sibanda
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Select the "first_name" followed by the username in parentheses and alias it as "display_name". For example "Andrew (cha

i have searched the MySQL reference guide but cant seem to find the syntax.

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William Li
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William Li
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William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Select the "first_name" followed by the username in parentheses and alias it as "display_name". For example "Andrew (chalkers)". There's a space between the end of the first_name and username in parentheses.

For this part of the challenge, the formatting needs to be exactly match with what the grader is looking for, similar to what's shown in the example "Andrew (chalkers)", missing a space char or quotation mark is not going to sit well with the grader.

SELECT CONCAT(first_name, " (", username, ")") AS display_name FROM users;

Please review the course material if you need a refresh on this particular subject. Cheers.

Daniel Sibanda
Daniel Sibanda
4,803 Points

thank you, i was doing try and error :-D