SQL Exercise: List the names of those employees starting with A

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105. From the following table, write a SQL query to identify those employees whose names begin with 'A' and are six characters long. Return employee name.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT emp_name
FROM employees
WHERE emp_name LIKE 'A%'
  AND length(emp_name)=6;

Sample Output:

 emp_name
----------
 ADELYN
 ADNRES
(2 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects the names of employees whose names start with 'A' and have a length of exactly 6 characters from the employees table.

The WHERE clause includes employees whose names starts with 'A' and the length() function to check if the length of the name is exactly 6 characters.

Go to:

PREV : List the number of employees and average salary.
NEXT : Six-character employee names with R in 3rd position.

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Sample Database: employee

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