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Development Tools Database Foundations SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions Grouping, Joining and Cleaning Up

Samuel Altarac
Samuel Altarac
4,961 Points
Posted by Samuel Altarac
Samuel Altarac
4,961 Points

help with grouping in MySQL

I can't get past the 3rd challenge question which asks:

Like before, select the average "score" as "average", setting to 0 if null, by grouping the "movie_id" from the "reviews" table. Also, do an outer join on the "movies" table with its "id" column and display the movie "title" before the "average". Finally, filter out any "average" score over 2.

I used the following code:

select title, ifnull(avg(score).0) as average from movies left outer join reviews on movies.id = reviews.movie_id group by movie_id having average < 2;

What am I doing wrong?

4 Answers

Matthew Bymaster
Matthew Bymaster
5,052 Points
Matthew Bymaster
Matthew Bymaster
5,052 Points

try: SELECT title, IFNULL(AVG(score), 0) AS average FROM movies LEFT OUTER JOIN reviews ON movies.id = reviews.movie_id GROUP BY movie_id HAVING average < 2;

Kazimierz Matan
Kazimierz Matan
13,257 Points
Kazimierz Matan
Kazimierz Matan
13,257 Points

I see a dot (.) in "ifnull(avg(score).0)", there should be a comma (,).

Generally, SQL in better readable if you write SQL keywords, functions and other language constructs as all uppercase. You can then easily distinguish them from data (table and column names etc.).

Katrina Rodzon
Katrina Rodzon
1,414 Points
Katrina Rodzon
Katrina Rodzon
1,414 Points

Did this end up working? I still am having issue as well with the following

SELECT title, IFNULL(AVG(score),0) AS average FROM reviews LEFT OUTER JOIN movies ON reviews.movie_id = movies.id GROUP BY movie_id HAVING average < 2;

Yuan Tang
Yuan Tang
14,168 Points
Yuan Tang
Yuan Tang
14,168 Points

The following worked for me: SELECT movies.title, IFNULL(AVG(score), 0) AS average FROM movies LEFT OUTER JOIN reviews ON movies.id = reviews.movie_id GROUP BY movie_id HAVING average < 2;