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).
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Result :
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