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Databases SQL Reporting by Example Orientation: Selecting Data Orientation Quiz

Posted by Steve Rogers
Steve Rogers
3,285 Points

The quiz asked me to return a list of employees ordered by salary starting with the highest. I got it wrong?

I entered

SELECT FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, SALARY FROM EMPLOYEES ORDER BY salary DSC;

and several other variations but I coudln't get it to work. Any ideas?

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

For descending order it is DESC with an e. So it would be:

ORDER BY SALARY DESC
Yves Bariuan
Yves Bariuan
4,440 Points
Yves Bariuan
Yves Bariuan
4,440 Points

Try this code:

Select first_name, last_name FROM employees ORDER BY salary DESC