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Databases

Posted by Kiki Y
Kiki Y
Courses Plus Student 492 Points

Help: Where and limit syntax

There's a books table. There's a title, author, genre and first_published column. Write a query to obtain the first 5 books in the Fantasy genre ordered by the year released. Oldest first. Select all columns.

SELECT * FROM books ORDER BY first_published ASC, genre ASC Where genre = 'fantasy' limit 5; (please tell me where goes wrong as it kept showing syntax error "near where")

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

A couple of things come to mind:

  • the ORDER BY clause should come after the WHERE clause.
  • the query is limiting the results to one genre, you won't need genre in the ORDER BY conditions.
  • the string matching might be case sensitive. just to be save, use 'Fantasy' as the genre.
  • optionally, "ASC" can be left off as it is the default ordering.
Kiki Y
Kiki Y
Courses Plus Student 492 Points

THANK YOU!