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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Creating Excerpts

Posted by Ariadna Rodriguez
Ariadna Rodriguez
6,281 Points

should both columns be a substrings?

or is it two columns concatenated as initials

1 Answer

Mark Sebeck
MOD
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,329 Points
Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,329 Points

You just want a substr for first_name. You select last_name normally. No concatenation needed.

select substr( ...) alias, last_name from customers