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Jessica Brown
95 Pointshow to retrieve the name and description columns from the products table with the aliases given?
i have tried these options: SELECT NAME AS "PRODUCT NAME", DESCRIPTION AS "PRODUCT DESCRIPTION" FROM PRODUCTS
SELECT name AS "PRODUCT NAME", description AS "PRODUCT DESCRIPTION" FROM PRODUCTS
2 Answers
Ari Misha
19,323 PointsHiya Jessica! To query a database and retrieve data from a database, you could use "AS" clause to assign aliases to the selected fields. This is the syntax for it:
Alias Column Syntax
SELECT column_name AS alias_name
FROM table_name;
Alias Table Syntax
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name AS alias_name;
I hope it helped! (:
Jessica Brown
95 PointsWe're back in our e-commerce database. There's a products table with the columns id, name, description and price. Can you retrieve both the name and description aliased as "Product Name" and "Product Description".
that is the task that I was given. I have tried everything and nothing seems to work??
Shouldn't it be: SELECT product_name AS "PRODUCT NAME", product_description AS "PRODUCT DESCRIPTION" FROM products
Ari Misha
19,323 PointsHiya there! The correct syntax should be like this:
SELECT name AS "Product Name", description AS "Product Description" FROM products;
Michelle Yuan
329 PointsMichelle Yuan
329 PointsI also tried. They don't work. Don't know why.