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Databases

Reporting with SQL struggles

Challenge Task 1 of 2

We're using 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 rows.

SELECT * FROM books WHERE genre = 'Fantasy' ORDER BY first_published LIMIT 5;

The error message I'm getting says that there is something wrong with my SQL code. Can anyone elaborate?

2 Answers

i think you might be missing asc or desc

select * from books where genre = 'Fantasy'order by first_published limit 5;

I must have had a typo before I wrote this up because my problem code featured in my question works... strange

SELECT * FROM books WHERE genre = 'Fantasy' ORDER BY first_published LIMIT 5;