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Basic SELECT statement: Get the first three characters of first name of all employees

MySQL Basic Select Statement: Exercise-12 with Solution

Write a query to get the first three characters of first name of all employees.

Sample table: employees


Code:

-- Extracting the substring of the first three characters from the first_name column
SELECT SUBSTRING(first_name, 1, 3) 
-- Selecting data from the employees table
FROM employees;

Explanation:

  • This SQL query extracts a substring of the first three characters from the first_name column for each row in the employees table.
  • The SUBSTRING() function is used to perform this operation. It takes three arguments: the column or string, the starting position (1 in this case), and the length of the substring to extract (3 in this case).

Pictorial Presentation of the above query


Result :


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