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SQL Exercise: Without the spaces, count each employee name characters

SQL employee Database: Exercise-8 with Solution

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8. From the following table, write a SQL query to count the number of characters except the spaces for each employee name. Return employee name length.

Sample table: employees


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SQL exercises on employee Database: Count the no. of characters with out considering the spaces for each name

Sample Solution:

SELECT length(trim(emp_name))
FROM employees;

Sample Output:

 length
--------
      7
      5
      5
      5
      7
      5
      8
      6
      4
      6
      6
      6
      6
      6
(14 rows)

Explanation:

The given query in SQL that selects the length of the trimmed employee names for all rows in the 'employees' table.

In the "trim" function, leading or trailing spaces are removed from the employee name, and the "length" function returns the length.

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Sample Database: employee

employee database structure

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