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Nelson Govea
Courses Plus Student 1,951 PointsReporting with SQL
Challenge Task 1 of 2
We're using the library database again. 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. Type in your command below. Get Help Check Work
The bottom is my command but returning a error message.
SELECT * FROM books WHERE genre ASC ORDER BY first_published ASC LIMIT 5;
2 Answers
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsTry removing the ASC next to the genre column. You only need to order the column by the year published :-)
Nelson Govea
Courses Plus Student 1,951 PointsHI Jonathan, that definitely worked, it didn't come to me that I needed to add 'Fantasy' to the clause. Thank you.
Nelson Govea
Courses Plus Student 1,951 PointsNelson Govea
Courses Plus Student 1,951 PointsHi Jonathan, tried what you suggested but it didn't work.
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsHmm, that's interesting... let me find the code challenge and have a look...
Right... try this one and it should work this time.
SELECT * FROM books WHERE genre = 'Fantasy' ORDER BY first_published ASC LIMIT 5;I led you down the wrong path I'm afraid because in removing the first ASC keyword and not replacing it with a value I led you to write an invalid query. But if you look at the question again you'll see we're looking to return a query that gives us the first 5 books of the Fantasy Genre. So you can put that in quotation marks and you should be good to go.