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Databases

donald kaiser
donald kaiser
9,736 Points
Posted by donald kaiser
donald kaiser
9,736 Points

My code isn't working when trying to do reporting with SQL. I can't understand why it won't work.

Here is the code I tried and it's telling me there's something wrong with the code. It's not saying what the problem is:

SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY length DESC LIMIT 1;

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/reporting-with-sql/working-with-text/getting-the-length-of-a-string

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

When I try, it says the problem is "no such column: length".

I'll bet you intended to "ORDER BY" the longest_length alias instead of "length".

donald kaiser
donald kaiser
9,736 Points
donald kaiser
donald kaiser
9,736 Points

Ahh!! Thanks for the help sir that worked.

donald kaiser
donald kaiser
9,736 Points
donald kaiser
donald kaiser
9,736 Points

Oh, thank you. I didn't know that Thanks.