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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Concatenating Text

Posted by juannie jimenez
juannie jimenez
2,859 Points

trying to figure out why my answer is wrong concatenating these columns and Alias it to to_field

my answer is SELECT first_name ||' '|| last_name ||' '|| email || AS to_field FROM patrons;

goal is to concatenate first_name, last_name and email , then alias it to to_field , from patrons table

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,274 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,274 Points

You're very close, but you have an extra concatenation operator between the last part of the string and the alias. Once you fix that, you'll get a more helpful error message: "Bummer: You're missing the angle brackets around the email address." And after fixing that you should pass the challenge.