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The PADS

  • serenitydiver
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    Concat: is a function that joins (concatenates) multiple strings together.

    LEFT: to extract a specified number of characters from the left (beginning) side of a string.

    LOWER: Converts the occupation name to lowercase

    SELECT Concat(NAME, '(', LEFT(occupation, 1), ')') 
FROM occupations
ORDER BY NAME;


SELECT CONCAT('There are a total of ', COUNT(*), ' ',  LOWER(Occupation), 's.') 
FROM OCCUPATIONS
GROUP BY Occupation
ORDER BY COUNT(Occupation) ASC,  Occupation ASC;