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bookChallenge: Mask Sensitive Information

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Write a query to anonymize customer names by replacing all but the first letter of each name with asterisks.

  • Select all columns from the customers table.
  • For the masked_name column, concatenate the first letter of the name with a string of asterisks equal in length to the remaining characters in the name.
  • Ensure that only the first character of each name is visible, with the rest replaced by asterisks.

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Task

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Write a query to anonymize customer names by replacing all but the first letter of each name with asterisks.

  • Select all columns from the customers table.
  • For the masked_name column, concatenate the first letter of the name with a string of asterisks equal in length to the remaining characters in the name.
  • Ensure that only the first character of each name is visible, with the rest replaced by asterisks.

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