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Databases Reporting with SQL Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results Limiting Results

Posted by Rhea Khanna
Rhea Khanna
2,838 Points

Limiting data with SQL

Hi, here is the question:

There's a books table. There's a title, author, genre and first_published column. Write a query to obtain the first 5 books in the Fantasy genre ordered by the year released. Oldest first. Select all columns.

My answer: SELECT * FROM books ORDER BY genre = "Fantasy" WHERE first_published ASC LIMIT 5;

I am getting this incorrect can someone explain what I am doing wrong please

2 Answers

Erasto Oraro
Erasto Oraro
5,610 Points
Erasto Oraro
Erasto Oraro
5,610 Points

First "Fantasy" should be in single quotes 'Fantasy' for the syntax error. The Oldest first should be ordered DESC

SELECT * FROM books WHERE genre = 'Fantasy' ORDER BY first_published DESC LIMIT 5;

David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points
David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points

Almost... You just need to switch the WHERE with the ORDER BY and that should sort it.

SELECT
  *
FROM
  books
WHERE
  genre IN ("Fantasy")
ORDER BY
  first_published ASC
LIMIT
  5;