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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Replacing Strings

Taylor Han
Taylor Han
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Posted by Taylor Han
Taylor Han
2,406 Points

REPLACE function with SQL

Having trouble with new functions and then aliasing. Did I use the REPLACE function correctly? Thanks!

Elijah Quesada
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Elijah Quesada
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Post your code so we can take a look.

Taylor Han
Taylor Han
2,406 Points
Taylor Han
Taylor Han
2,406 Points

SELECT * customers WHERE REPLACE(email, "@", "<at>") AS obfuscated_email;

Here is what I have tried, wanting to pull all emails from a table and replace "@" with "<at>" and alias it. Thanks!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

You're using the function correctly, but there are some query syntax issues. The item being selected comes first (in this case, only the modified email), then the alias, and the table after the "FROM" keyword:

SELECT REPLACE(email, "@", "<at>") AS obfuscated_email FROM customers;

You don't need WHERE since you are returning data from every row.