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Databases

Rania Mohamed
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Rania Mohamed
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Posted by Rania Mohamed
Rania Mohamed
Courses Plus Student 1,333 Points

reporting wit SQL, challenge Task giving error

Challenge Task 1 of 1

We're in a movie database. There's a reviews table with the columns of id, movie_id, username, review and rating. The movie "Starman" has the id of 6. Movie ids are found in the movie_id column in the reviews table. Write a query that totals up all ratings in the reviews table. Alias it as starman_total_ratings. Type in your command below. Bummer! Your query didn't perform the correct sum calculation. Get Help Try Again

select movie_id, sum(rating) AS starman_total_ratings from reviews where movie_id = 6 GROUP BY movie_id;

the query shows the correct total of 10 , but still gives the Bummer message.

1 Answer

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

The challenge only asked for the total column.

You don't need movie_id. And while it doesn't hurt, you also don't need the GROUP BY clause since you are returning only the aggregate and have only one row.

SELECT SUM(rating) AS starman_total_ratings FROM reviews WHERE movie_id = 6;