Column concatenation, Column seperators in SELECT

Hello,
I just did a practive exam and have a question regarding those two problems
[Problem 1 |www.metallon.org/test/problem.jpg]
[Problem 2|http://www.metallon.org/test/problem2.jpg]
1-
It seems that "SELECT ename 'joined' on' hiredate..."
Is what failes the query first. My version of Oracle 10g does not seem
to allow columns to be select without having a comma "," in between.
2-
The same thing. "...promo_name q'{'s start date was}' promo_begin_date..."
No column seperator.
Does that make sense or am I stupid?

Looks like the 2nd question is missing the concatenation symbols (||) to join the column to the literal in order for answer C to be correct.
Either whatever you're viewing the question in has issues displaying || or the question is just badly constructed.
I don't think it's you! *{;-)

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