Basic SELECT statement: Get the length of name of all employees

MySQL Basic Select Statement: Exercise-16 with Solution

Write a query to get the length of the employee names (first_name, last_name) from employees table.

Sample table: employees

Code:

SELECT first_name,last_name, LENGTH(first_name)+LENGTH(last_name)  'Length of  Names' 
    FROM employees;

Pictorial Presentation of the above query

Result :

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