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Databases

Posted by Chris Gauthier
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 Points

SQL Statement on concatenating is getting an error

select street || "," || " " || city || "," || " " || state || " " || zip || "." || " " country as address from addresses;

SQL Error: near "as": syntax error

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

Can you provide a link to the challenge page to facilitate analysis of the issue?

Chris Gauthier
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 Points

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/reporting-with-sql/working-with-text/concatenating-text

is the link.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

You're missing an operator.

There should be a concatenation operator between that last space and the field country.

Also, while it works as is, you can compact your code a bit by eliminating concatenated literal strings by pre-combining them. For example, you could replace all this :point_right: "," || " " :point_left: with just this :point_right: ", "