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Databases

Task Patrons: retrieving email with brackets

I do not know what i did wrong in my code. Any comments are appreciated.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

You forgot to link to the course or share your code. But this is a frequently asked-about topic, so I can repeat the answer given for a previous post.

You'll combine literal strings and columns by concatenation. For the playground this is done with the || operator.

So you'll have something like this:

SELECT first_name || ' ' || last_name || ' <' || email || '>' AS combined_name FROM table_name;

The combined_name is an alias for the column heading, if they asked for a specific one just replace it. And of course replace table_name with the actual name of the table.