Oracle - SQL Query to return a value from a column in another table where value equals a different column

Question

From within the results of a query I need to take the first 3 digits (got this part - substr) from a column in one table and pull the value from a second table where the 3 digit code is in a different column of the same row. While I'm not looking for assistance in this part I will be grouping by the code column for reference

    Example
    Table 1        Table 2
    3_Digit        Code_Column    Description
    123456         123            Blue
    103456         103            Green

so if my substr query return 123 5 times I'm looking for

    Blue 3 

Answer 1

select  t2.Code_Column, count(*)
from table1 t1
join table2 t2
on  substr(t1.digit, 0, 3) = t2.Code_Column
group by t2.Code_Column

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