SQL Exercise: List the employees, having six characters to their name

SQL employee Database: Exercise-17 with Solution

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17. From the following table, write a SQL query to find the names of the employees whose length is six. Return employee name.

Sample table: employees

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Sample Solution:

SELECT emp_name
FROM employees
WHERE length(emp_name)=6;

Sample Output:

 emp_name
----------
 ADELYN
 MADDEN
 TUCKER
 ADNRES
 JULIUS
 MARKER
(6 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects only the "emp_name" column from the 'employees' table where the length of the employee's name is equal to 6 characters.

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Sample Database: employee

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