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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Getting the Length of a String

Stephanie Albright
Stephanie Albright
5,690 Points
Posted by Stephanie Albright
Stephanie Albright
5,690 Points

Help please

This is my code: SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS length FROM books ORDER BY length DESC limit 1;

It works in the Playground but not in the exercise. Not sure what I did wrong.

3 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

Did you change it in your order by clause as well? The following passed for me:

SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY longest_length DESC limit 1;
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

According to the instructions your alias should be longest_length

Stephanie Albright
Stephanie Albright
5,690 Points
Stephanie Albright
Stephanie Albright
5,690 Points

I tried that too and it didn't work.