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Databases

Oskar Pihlak
Oskar Pihlak
2,094 Points
Posted by Oskar Pihlak
Oskar Pihlak
2,094 Points

Text case

In a library database there's a books table. There's an id, title, author, genre and first_published column. Write a query that will return only the title and author. Bring back the title in lowercase and the author in uppercase. Alias them as lowercase_title and uppercase_author respectively. where to the UPPER and LOWER statements go ?

2 Answers

Joan Estep
Joan Estep
10,739 Points
Joan Estep
Joan Estep
10,739 Points

Final Solution: SELECT LOWER(title) AS lowercase_title, UPPER(author) AS uppercase_author FROM books;

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,140 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,140 Points

:point_right: The UPPER and LOWER statements go around the columns you want changed.

For example, it says "Bring back the title in lowercase and ... Alias ... as lowercase_title ...", so for that column, you might write:

LOWER(title) AS lowercase_title