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Victoria Loisi
7,070 PointsWhy I need to retrieve the "earliest" book if the sorting order should be made alphabetically?
What I need to do is: In a library database there's a books table. There's a title, author, genre and first_published column. The library database is connected to a website displaying 10 books at a time, sorted by the title alphabetically. Write a query to bring back the second page of results.
So, I'm doing this:
SELECT * FROM books ORDER BY title ASC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 1;
But I keep getting this error:
Bummer! Your query needs to retrive the earliest 'Science Fiction' book from the books table.
Why the earliest edition? What's wrong with my query? Thanks!
2 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Victoria,
You have to skip the first 10 results so your OFFSET should probably be 10.
Please link to the challenge if you're still having trouble with it.
Victoria Loisi
7,070 PointsThank you, you were right!