SQL exercises on employee Database: List the names of those employees starting with 'A' and with six characters in length

SQL employee Database: Exercise-105 with Solution

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105. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees whose name start with 'A' and six characters in length. Return employee name.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT emp_name
FROM employees
WHERE emp_name LIKE 'A%'
  AND length(emp_name)=6;

Sample Output:

 emp_name
----------
 ADELYN
 ADNRES
(2 rows)

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Sample Database: employee

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