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Databases

Posted by Chitra Tovinkere
Chitra Tovinkere
3,864 Points

Wrong error message

Link to question: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/reporting-with-sql/working-with-text/getting-the-length-of-a-string My code: select title, length(title) as longest_title from books order by length(title) desc limit 1; Answer: Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix The answer above is in the column "title" the column next to it is "longest_length" I checked to make sure this was the correct by retrieving all the titles in the descending order. So I know I've got the correct answer.

However, I'm getting an error message saying: Bummer: Your query didn't return the longest length

Chitra Tovinkere
Chitra Tovinkere
3,864 Points

Thank you! I caught that soon after I posted :)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

You have the right book, but the wrong column name.

The instructions say, "Alias the result of the length calculation to be longest_length".
But your query aliases it to "longest_title" instead.