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User Display Names

Build a display name for every user in users:

1. If both first_name and last_name are present, use first_name || ' ' || last_name. 2. Otherwise, if username is present, use username. 3. Otherwise use 'user-' followed by the user_id (for example user-42).

Missing values are stored as NULL.

Return columns user_id, display_name. Row order does not matter.

Schema

CREATE TABLE users (
  user_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
  first_name TEXT,
  last_name TEXT,
  username TEXT
);

Sample data

users

user_idfirst_namelast_nameusername
1HibaKhalilhibak
2IanNULLian_dev
3NULLNULLquietfox
4NULLNULLNULL
5JadeOkaforNULL
Hint 1

In SQLite, concatenating anything with NULL using || gives NULL.

Hint 2

COALESCE returns its first non-NULL argument.

Good practice for: Backend Developer, Full Stack Developer, Data Analyst

SQL (SQLite)

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