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Kamran Ismayilov
5,753 PointsCreating Excerpts
Please help to solve this problem, I can not understand what I am doing wrong.
2 Answers
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsNormally, 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:
SPOILER ALERT
SELECT SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 1) AS initial, last_name FROM customers;
Kamran Ismayilov
5,753 PointsOh thanks you a lot! I think the compiler was confusing me.
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsSteven Parker
229,732 PointsIt 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!