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PHP

Luke McGuigan
Luke McGuigan
14,228 Points
Posted by Luke McGuigan
Luke McGuigan
14,228 Points

Trouble with challenge 2 of Multiple Conditionals (Integrating PHP with Databases)

Hello, the following is the SQL query I've used for this task, whilst it's pulling only the title from the media title in regards to the lastname of 'Tolkien', it seems the issue where this isn't being accepted if that duplicates of each item are being produced.

SELECT title FROM Media me JOIN Media_People m, People p ON m.people_id = p.people_id WHERE fullname LIKE '%Tolkien';

I was wondering if anyone could provide assistance on this.

Thanks

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points

can you add a link to the challenge this is in reference to?

3 Answers

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points 
SELECT m.title FROM Media m
    JOIN Media_People mp ON m.media_id = mp.media_id
    JOIN People p ON mp.people_id = p.people_id
  WHERE p.fullname like '%Tolkien';
Luke McGuigan
Luke McGuigan
14,228 Points
Luke McGuigan
Luke McGuigan
14,228 Points

Thank you for your assistance, that worked wonderfully, I need to reconsider how I write SQL queries.

Luke McGuigan
Luke McGuigan
14,228 Points
Luke McGuigan
Luke McGuigan
14,228 Points

It's just an alias to reference the Media table, though it may be redundant here, regardless I received the same result without it.

Justin Thomas
Justin Thomas
10,461 Points
Justin Thomas
Justin Thomas
10,461 Points

Does anybody know the answer to task 3 of this same challenge? Really struggling on that one

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points

Given the URL provided, the third part looks something like:

SELECT m.title FROM Media m
    JOIN Media_People mp ON m.media_id = mp.media_id
    JOIN People p ON mp.people_id = p.people_id
  WHERE p.fullname like '%Tolkien' and m.category = "Books"