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Databases

olu adesina
olu adesina
23,007 Points
Posted by olu adesina
olu adesina
23,007 Points

i think this might be an error SQL

I think ive answered the question correctly but it still dosnt work please help

Challenge Task 1 of 1

In the library database there's a books table with the columns id, title, author, genre and first_published. Find the book with the longest title. Show the title and then the length. Alias the result of the length calculation to be longest_length. Only retrieve the longest book.

SELECT title,LENGTH(title)AS "longest_length" FROM books ORDER BY LENGTH(title) ASC LIMIT 1

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

If you order ascending, the smallest value will be first. It sounds like you'd want descending order here.

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