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Databases

Posted by Nathalie van den Bos
Nathalie van den Bos
4,315 Points

Expecting results are the same as my results :). But it gives a bummer:(

SELECT SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 1) || last_name AS initial FROM <table>;

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Without a link to the challenge this is a bit of a guess — but I'd bet that the challenge wants the alias applied to just the result of the SUBSTR, and that the last_name should be selected as a separate field with no concatenation.