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Databases

Posted by Edward Li
Edward Li
373 Points

What should I write to retrieve 'Science Fiction' from books?

Bummer! Your query needs to retrive the earliest 'Science Fiction' book from the books table. Get Help Try Again

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Edward,

Can you link to the challenge and post what query you are trying?

1 Answer

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

Without seeing what you were trying or a link to your challenge, I can't be specific, but here's some general hints:

  • When retrieving the "earliest" of something, you'll want to ORDER BY the date it was issued, and then LIMIT your output to just 1 row.
  • When looking for things of a particular type, you will use a WHERE clause comparing the column with the type (perhaps genre in this case?) to the desired type ('Science Fiction').

Hopefully that will get you going, or you can post more info.