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Business

Ryan Aves
Ryan Aves
2,203 Points
Posted by Ryan Aves
Ryan Aves
2,203 Points

When replacing "@" with "<at>" for email addresses in the customers table, what is wrong with my SELECT statement here?

My code:

SELECT REPLACE(email, "@", "<at>") AS obfuscated_email FROM customers WHERE REPLACE(email, "@", "<at>") = "<at>";

1 Answer

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

I'd need to take a look at the task instructions to be sure, but this challenge probably does not require a WHERE clause.

And even if it did, the expression shown here would only be true when the "email" field contained only one "@" character and nothing else. That's probably not what you want.

Ryan Aves
Ryan Aves
2,203 Points
Ryan Aves
Ryan Aves
2,203 Points

Hi Steven,

Thanks for replying - I managed to figure out my mistake! It turns out that my latter portion of the command (...WHERE REPLACE(email, "@", "<at>") = "<at>"') was not needed. I removed that section from my statement and it passed!