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Lucio Bonforte
4,164 PointsI need help please! What am I doing wrong?
Task 2 of 6
"There are two tables Fruit and Vegetable table. The Fruit table has a FruitID and a Name column and the Vegetable table has a VegetableID and Name column.
Create a list of all fruits and vegetables starting with the letters A through K . In other words all fruit and vegetables that don't start with the letter L to Z."
I have reproduced the following SQL query:
SELECT Name
FROM Vegetable
WHERE Name LIKE "[a-k]%"
UNION
SELECT Name
FROM Fruit
WHERE Name LIKE "[a-k]%";
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Mod Edit: Fixed code formatting for readability. You can post fancy code like this using markdown.
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there, Lucio Bonforte! I see that you've put some time and thought into this. First, it's going to require that you return DISTINCT fruits and vegetables. There can be items that end up on both lists. Secondly, you're trying to use LIKE here, but what you need is < "L". The "[a-k]%" is not going to work. This was my solution:
SELECT DISTINCT(Name)
FROM Vegetable
WHERE Name < "L"
UNION
SELECT DISTINCT(Name)
FROM Fruit
WHERE Name < "L";
Hope this helps!
Joshua Esmero
10,571 PointsHi Jennifer, so we can't use wildcards in the team treehouse database?