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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Creating Excerpts

youssef b10ta
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youssef b10ta
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Posted by youssef b10ta
youssef b10ta
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how im supposed t understand this ? Bummer: Expecting results like 'L Chalkley' not 'L Chalkley'.

SELECT substr(first_name, 1, 1) || " " || last_name AS initial FROM customers;

kinda weird the result of my query is  ```L Chalkley ``` ```D McFarland```.......

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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When the instructions said "Select their last name too", they didn't mean for you to concatenate it onto the first field. So while it may look the same, you're returning only one column but the challenge is expecting two.