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

Posted by Karen Shumate
Karen Shumate
13,579 Points

We're using the library database again. There's a books table. There's a title, author, genre and first_publishedcolumn.

Need help , what am I doing wrong.

Thanks,

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,970 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,970 Points

The task is: Write a query to obtain the first 5 books in the Fantasy genre ordered by the year released. Oldest first. Select all columns.

To break it down:

Select all columns = SELECT(*)

the first 5 books = A limit clause LIMIT 5

in the Fantasy genre = filter by genre Fantasy with WHERE

SELECT * FROM books WHERE genre = "Fantasy" ORDER BY first_published LIMIT 5