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Databases Querying Relational Databases Set Operations Set Operations

Posted by Alexei Lazarowicz
Alexei Lazarowicz
5,153 Points

I have no idea how to sort the names by what letter they start with

I had code earlier but when I tried to go back to edit the post it deleted it

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

The challenge isn't asking you to sort anything, just filter the list (as typically done with a WHERE clause).

You can make use of the way that inequality operators ( < and > ) work on words by comparing alphabetic order. For example, if you filtered a query using ... WHERE word < "D" the result set would only contain words that begin with "A", "B", and "C".