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Databases Reporting with SQL Date and Time Functions Calculating Dates

Posted by ABRAHAM NYONI
ABRAHAM NYONI
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Can someone help me on this challenge on SQL,CALCULATING DATES.

In an ecommerce database there's an orders table with the columns id, product_id, user_id, address_id, ordered_on, status and cost.Count the total number of orders that were ordered yesterday and have the status of 'shipped'. Alias it to ordered_yesterday_and_shipped.

D Elis
D Elis
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Here is the solution: SELECT COUNT(*) AS ordered_yesterday_and_shipped FROM orders WHERE status ='shipped' AND ordered_on = DATE('now', '-1 day')

7 Answers

Walter Guerrero
Walter Guerrero
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Walter Guerrero
Walter Guerrero
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SELECT COUNT(status) AS "ordered_yesterday_and_shipped" FROM orders WHERE status = "shipped" AND ordered_on = DATE("now", "-1 day");

this worked for me. probly because of your aliashope that helped

ABRAHAM NYONI
ABRAHAM NYONI
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ABRAHAM NYONI
ABRAHAM NYONI
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SELECT COUNT(status) AS shipped_yesterday FROM orders WHERE status = "shipped" AND ordered_on = DATE("now", "-1 day"); //This was my code.

Faisal Tariq
Faisal Tariq
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I have the same problem. Using the same code as you but not getting any output.

Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
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Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
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Walter Guererro is right. However, when I did my code, it was like this:

SELECT COUNT(status) AS ordered_yesterday_and_shipped FROM orders WHERE status = "shipped" AND ordered_on = DATE("now", "-1 day");

And it told me it was expecting a count of 14. If you do that code on the SQL playground that goes along with the previous video, the count is 14. Also, I could be wrong about this but do these AS statements not require the use of quotation marks unless they need a string? Doesn't seem right that they want you to put ordered_yesterday_and_shipped with quotes in it.

Marcos Treviño Rodriguez
Marcos Treviño Rodriguez
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Marcos Treviño Rodriguez
Marcos Treviño Rodriguez
5,711 Points

I just did the same mistake by adding twice the "WHERE" =(, but when fixing it, it worked.

Judith Copeland
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Judith Copeland
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I tried all the code above, and finally adding quotes around the alias worked for me:

SELECT COUNT(status) AS "ordered_yesterday_and_shipped" FROM orders WHERE status="shipped" AND ordered_on = DATE("now", "-1 day");

Aya khaled
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Aya khaled
Aya khaled
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i recieve error

johnny lazo
johnny lazo
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johnny lazo
johnny lazo
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SELECT COUNT(*) AS ordered_yesterday_and_shipped FROM orders WHERE status = 'shipped' AND ordered_on = DATE("now", "-1 day");