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Databases

Kamran Ismayilov
Kamran Ismayilov
5,753 Points
Posted by Kamran Ismayilov
Kamran Ismayilov
5,753 Points

Creating Excerpts

Please help to solve this problem, I can not understand what I am doing wrong.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
228,095 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
228,095 Points

It would help to know what you're working on. In future, be sure to share a link to the quiz/challenge/video page. And remember to share your code and/or a workspace snapshot!

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
228,095 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
228,095 Points

Normally, I'd give you some hints instead of an explicit spoiler, but since you didn't share your code, it's impossible to know what you were doing wrong. But the challenge wants you to extract the first initial from the first name, so you would use the SUBSTR function to get a string from index 1 with a length of 1. Then, selecting that with an alias and including the last name your query would be something like this:

:warning: SPOILER ALERT

SELECT SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 1) AS initial, last_name FROM customers;
Kamran Ismayilov
Kamran Ismayilov
5,753 Points
Kamran Ismayilov
Kamran Ismayilov
5,753 Points

Oh thanks you a lot! I think the compiler was confusing me.