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Posted by Chris Craigman
Chris Craigman
13,659 Points

I don't know what I'm doing wrong with my SQL code

It wants me to find the longest length title in the books category and I did just that but its telling me that I haven't retrieved the book with its length. Yet when I look I clearly have

Chris Craigman
Chris Craigman
13,659 Points

The challenge is in PHP Intermediate Getting The Length of a String task and my code is

SELECT title,LENGTH(title) AS "length calculation" FROM books ORDER BY LENGTH(title) DESC LIMIT 1;

1 Answer

Corey Montgomery
Corey Montgomery
18,468 Points
Corey Montgomery
Corey Montgomery
18,468 Points

The problem looks to be that the instructions are asking for "longest_length" and you are calling the field "length calculation." Swap those around and it should pass just fine. Here is the code:

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

Hope that helps.