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Databases

miles hammock
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Posted by miles hammock
miles hammock
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Reporting with SQL cant seem to get it right when it looks right to me...

SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY title DESC LIMIT 1;

My answer is up above and the problem is below.

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/reporting-with-sql/working-with-text/getting-the-length-of-a-string

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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You're close! Try ordering by longest_length.

SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY longest_length DESC LIMIT 1;