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Databases Reporting with SQL Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results Limiting Results

Posted by Mayo Toyota
Mayo Toyota
2,121 Points

genre = "Science Fiction"

Why is it saying there is something wrong with the SQL: select * from books where genre = "Science Fiction" order by genre asc limit 1;

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

The instructions say to "Find the earliest Science Fiction book in our library." You can assume "earliest" refers to the publication date.

So the WHERE clause is fine, but you'll need to ORDER BY a different column than genre.

Mayo Toyota
Mayo Toyota
2,121 Points

Thank you so much Steven!