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Databases Reporting with SQL Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results Limiting Results

Posted by Alejandro Carvajal
Alejandro Carvajal
9,100 Points

Why would a WHERE clause be necessary if I could just return the asked-for information by just ordering with ORDER BY???

It won't let me answer, "SELECT * FROM books ORDER BY first_published DESC LIMIT 5;"

Please help. I'm quite confused

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

You need a WHERE clause to filter by the Fantasy genre

Alejandro Carvajal
Alejandro Carvajal
9,100 Points

just noticed! Thanks for the help.