SQLite Exercise: Get the first 3 characters of first name from employees table

Write a query to get the first 3 characters of first name from employees table.

Sample table : employees

+-------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+
| EMPLOYEE_ID | FIRST_NAME  | LAST_NAME   | EMAIL    | PHONE_NUMBER       | HIRE_DATE  | JOB_ID     | SALARY   | COMMISSION_PCT | MANAGER_ID | DEPARTMENT_ID |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+
|         100 | Steven      | King        | SKING    | 515.123.4567       | 1987-06-17 | AD_PRES    | 24000.00 |           0.00 |          0 | 		  90 |
|         101 | Neena       | Kochhar     | NKOCHHAR | 515.123.4568       | 1987-06-18 | AD_VP      | 17000.00 |           0.00 |        100 |            90 |
|         102 | Lex         | De Haan     | LDEHAAN  | 515.123.4569       | 1987-06-19 | AD_VP      | 17000.00 |           0.00 |        100 |            90 |
|         103 | Alexander   | Hunold      | AHUNOLD  | 590.423.4567       | 1987-06-20 | IT_PROG    |  9000.00 |           0.00 |        102 |            60 |
|         104 | Bruce       | Ernst       | BERNST   | 590.423.4568       | 1987-06-21 | IT_PROG    |  6000.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         105 | David       | Austin      | DAUSTIN  | 590.423.4569       | 1987-06-22 | IT_PROG    |  4800.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         106 | Valli       | Pataballa   | VPATABAL | 590.423.4560       | 1987-06-23 | IT_PROG    |  4800.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         107 | Diana       | Lorentz     | DLORENTZ | 590.423.5567       | 1987-06-24 | IT_PROG    |  4200.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         108 | Nancy       | Greenberg   | NGREENBE | 515.124.4569       | 1987-06-25 | FI_MGR     | 12000.00 |           0.00 |        101 |           100 |
|         109 | Daniel      | Faviet      | DFAVIET  | 515.124.4169       | 1987-06-26 | FI_ACCOUNT |  9000.00 |           0.00 |        108 |           100 |
........
|         206 | William     | Gietz       | WGIETZ   | 515.123.8181       | 1987-10-01 | AC_ACCOUNT |  8300.00 |           0.00 |        205 |           110 |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+

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SQLite Code :

-- Extracting a substr from the "first_name" column starting at position 1 with a length of 3 characters
SELECT SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 3) 
-- Specifying the table from which to retrieve the data, in this case, "employees"
FROM employees;

Output:

SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 3)
------------------------
Ste
Nee
Lex

...

Her
She
Wil

Explanation:

The above SQLite query retrieves a substr of the first three characters from the "first_name" column for each record in the "employees" table. The result is a list of shortened first names.

Here's a brief explanation of each part of SQLite code:

• SELECT clause:
• It uses the SUBSTR(first_name, 1, 3) function to extract a substr from the "first_name" column.
• The substr starts at position 1 and has a length of 3 characters.
• FROM clause:
• Specifies the table from which to retrieve the data, in this case, the "employees" table.

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