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Fabio Campanini
Courses Plus Student 1,544 PointsCan anyone help me with the "Finding the Length of Text" exercise?
The text of the exercise is: "In the library database there's a books table with the columns id, title, author, genre and first_published. Find the book with the longest title. Show the title and then the length. Alias the result of the length calculation to be longest_length. Only retrieve the longest book."
The code I wrote is: select title, length(title) as longest_length from books order by title desc limit 1;
The system tells me that it is wrong, but I am not able to find the mistake; can anyone help me, please?
Fabio Campanini
Courses Plus Student 1,544 PointsThank you Nick!
Nick Wilson
5,060 PointsNick Wilson
5,060 PointsYou'll need to order by the longest_length because you aliased the title during the query.
SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY longest_length DESC LIMIT 1;