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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Getting the Length of a String

Posted by Derek Morse
Derek Morse
1,776 Points

What am I missing

SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY length ASC LIMIT 1;

This is what I came up with

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

You're close, but you didn't reference the alias by the correct name, and the order must be descending for the first one to be the longest:

SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY longest_length DESC LIMIT 1;
Derek Morse
Derek Morse
1,776 Points
Derek Morse
Derek Morse
1,776 Points

I got it thanks for the marks.