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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Concatenating Text

Posted by Jose Testa
Jose Testa
2,051 Points

Selecting a column so that all the rows would appear between <> operators.

How do I select the column called email from the table called patrons so that all the email would appear between the <> operators. Example: sjhs@hotmail.com.

The email column is to be concatenated with first and last mame columns, and the emails are to show in the format of the example above.

2 Answers

Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,361 Points

To add in extra strings to your concatenation, just enclose them with double quotes, like so: select first_name || " " || last_name || " <" || email || ">" as to_field from patrons;

Jose Testa
Jose Testa
2,051 Points

Thank you very much, Jason!

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

You're probably using concatenation already for this challenge, so you can easily concatenate fixed strings along with the other data. For example, if you were just displaying the email alone, you might do this:

SELECT '<' || email || '>' FROM patrons

You might want to remove the link from your example email address so bots don't find it and spam it.   :see_no_evil:

Jose Testa
Jose Testa
2,051 Points

Thanks, Steven!