Format the Conference Badge Label

SQLEasyJunior level~15 min

Problem

A conference prints a badge for each attendee. The badge label shows the attendee's full name followed by the first letter of their `department` in parentheses, for example 'Harper(M)' for someone in Marketing.

Write a query that produces the badge label for every attendee, ordered by `attendee_id` from highest to lowest.

Return two columns: `attendee_id` and `label`.

Tables

Example rows — the live problem includes the full dataset.

Attendee

attendee_id	full_name	department
1	Harper	Sales
3	Quinn	Analytics
2	Reyes	Product

Expected output

Your answer should return 6 rows with the columns attendee_id, label.

Starter code (SQL)

SELECT *
FROM Attendee;

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