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Databases

Counting Books in reporting with SQL

Hello, Im being asked to count all the books in each genre from the books table.

select genre, count(*) as genre_count GROUP BY genre from books;

SQL Error: near "from": syntax error

Is my query and the error Im getting.  Below is the link to the challenge.

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/reporting-with-sql/aggregate-and-numeric-functions/counting-groups

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,128 Points

You have all the right bits, just in the wrong order.

The FROM clause must come before the GROUP BY clause.