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Databases

Posted by Kiki Y
Kiki Y
Courses Plus Student 492 Points

How to solve address format for the challenge?

I am confident that my syntax is correct for the address format. But it kept telling me that my format is wrong. What's wrong?

SELECT street AS Street, city AS City, State AS State, zip AS Zip, country AS Country, Street||", "||City||", "||State||" "||Zip||". "||Country||". " AS address FROM addresses;

2 Answers

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Then it would be more like this:

SELECT street || ", " || city || ", " || state || ", " || zip || ". " || country || ". " AS 'Address' FROM addresses;

You had a final period after country, but in your later example you don't. I left it in the above SQL. If not, then:

SELECT street AS 'Street', city AS 'City', State AS 'State', zip AS 'Zip', country AS 'Country', street || ", " || city || ", " || state || " " || zip || ", " || country AS 'Address' FROM addresses;

You have a comma after state here:

34 NE 12 st, Portland, OR, 97129. USA

but not here:

(Street, City, State Zip. Country)

So you may have to adjust if the former is the correct version.

Also, this SQL assumes they wanted an alias for the whole thing of Address

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

It would help if you gave a link to the challenge so I could test this, but (1) aliases must be text, (2) you can't use aliases as fields, (3) you should leave spaces before and after operators like ||, and (3) they probably wanted a comma after zip rather than a period:

SELECT street AS 'Street', city AS 'City', State AS 'State', zip AS 'Zip', country AS 'Country', street || ", " || city || ", " || state || " " || zip || ", " || country || ". " AS 'Address' FROM addresses;

This assumes there is an addresses table

Kiki Y
Kiki Y
Courses Plus Student 492 Points

The format needs to be:

34 NE 12 st, Portland, OR, 97129. USA (Street, City, State Zip. Country)

Thank you.