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Databases

Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
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Posted by Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
3,411 Points

ORDER BY AND LIMIT SYNTAX DECLARE ERROR

What is syntax using both "limit" and "Order by"?

We're using the library database again. 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 LIMIT 5; but it say it need "you are missing where clause"!

3 Answers

Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points
Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points

SELECT * from EXAMPLE order by id LIMIT 20;

Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
3,411 Points
Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
3,411 Points

okey but this a question:

We're using the library database again. 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 LIMIT 5; but it say it need "you are missing where clause" hope you help e to get answer

Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points
Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points

Edited

SELECT * from books where genre = "Fantasy" order by first_published asc limit 5;

Amin Ruhul
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Amin Ruhul
Courses Plus Student 4,762 Points
Amin Ruhul
Amin Ruhul
Courses Plus Student 4,762 Points

Is asking for WHERE because there is a mistake in limit, You need to use like this:

SELECT * from books order by first_published LIMIT 0,5

LIMIT 0,5 means where 0 is a start limit of record & 5 number of record

Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
3,411 Points
Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
3,411 Points

namaste Amin ruhul thank for reply

but

the final answer is

SELECT * from books where genre = "Fantasy" order by first_published asc limit 5;

hope you understand the given question! :)

Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
3,411 Points
Praneeth Reddy
Praneeth Reddy
3,411 Points

Namaste

bogdan cabaj

thank you for helping my answer!