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Andy England
6,820 PointsERROR? Bummer: Expecting results like 'L Chalkley' not 'L Chalkley'.
What am I doing wrong to get the right answer? In an ecommerce database there's a customers table with id, username, first_name, last_name, password, email and phone columns.
Create a report from the customers table that shows their first initial of their first name and alias it as initial. Select their last name too.
SELECT SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 1) AS "inital", last_name AS "last_name" FROM customers;
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Andy England
6,820 Pointsnever mind just had to retype code and it accepted.
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsIt was a spelling error using "inital" (missing an "i") as the alias instead of "initial".
Also, you don't need to use an alias for last_name since that's already the column name.