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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Creating Excerpts

Posted by Aquoinette Blair
Aquoinette Blair
3,539 Points

Bummer Error

I wrote

SELECT SUBSTR (first_name, 1, 1) || " " AS initial, last_name FROM customers;

and got

Bummer: Expecting results like 'L Chalkley' not 'L Chalkley'.

I am confused because the results are the same. What am I missing?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

The output looks the same, but the challenge isn't expecting the extra space that is being concatenated onto the end of the initial.