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Databases Querying Relational Databases Set Operations Set Operations

Posted by Max Toth
Max Toth
3,777 Points

I've tried both approaches to a WHERE clause limiting names to '[a-k]%' (or NOT LIKE '[l-z]%' but neither does the trick

What am I missing here?

1 Answer

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,425 Points
Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,425 Points

Hi Max!

I had to try several different approaches to this to find out something that passes.

This passes task 2:

SELECT  Name
FROM Fruit
WHERE Name < "L"
UNION
SELECT  Name
FROM Vegetable
WHERE Name < "L";

I hope that helps.

Stay safe and happy coding!

Max Toth
Max Toth
3,777 Points

Many thanks! Very helpful, I hadn't realized I could restrict by first letter character as you did without specifically accounting for subsequent characters -- this was an important lesson for me!