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2504. Concatenate the Name and the Profession
Description
Table: Person
+-------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+---------+ | person_id | int | | name | varchar | | profession | ENUM | +-------------+---------+ person_id is the primary key (column with a unique value) for this table. Each row in this table contains a person's ID, name, and profession. The profession column in an enum of the type ('Doctor', 'Singer', 'Actor', 'Player', 'Engineer', or 'Lawyer')
Write a solution to report each person's name followed by the first letter of their profession enclosed in parentheses.
Return the result table ordered by person_id
in descending order.
The result format is shown in the following example.
Example 1:
Input: Person table: +-----------+-------+------------+ | person_id | name | profession | +-----------+-------+------------+ | 1 | Alex | Singer | | 3 | Alice | Actor | | 2 | Bob | Player | | 4 | Messi | Doctor | | 6 | Tyson | Engineer | | 5 | Meir | Lawyer | +-----------+-------+------------+ Output: +-----------+----------+ | person_id | name | +-----------+----------+ | 6 | Tyson(E) | | 5 | Meir(L) | | 4 | Messi(D) | | 3 | Alice(A) | | 2 | Bob(P) | | 1 | Alex(S) | +-----------+----------+ Explanation: Note that there should not be any white space between the name and the first letter of the profession.
Solutions
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# Write your MySQL query statement below SELECT person_id, CONCAT(name, "(", SUBSTRING(profession, 1, 1), ")") AS name FROM Person ORDER BY person_id DESC;