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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Creating Excerpts

Namazbek Bekarysuly
Namazbek Bekarysuly
882 Points
Posted by Namazbek Bekarysuly
Namazbek Bekarysuly
882 Points

What is wrong?

SELECT SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 1) || ' ' || last_name AS initial FROM customers;

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,184 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,184 Points

When they said "Select their last name too.", they meant select it as a separate column. You won't need to do any concatenation for this one.