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Databases Reporting with SQL Aggregate and Numeric Functions Counting Groups

cant find the solution for challenge task 2 of 2

In the library database there's a books table. There are id, title, author, genre and first_published columns.

Write a query to count all the unique genres in the books table. Alias it as total_genres.

Hi Rajpal, this is the code that worked for me, SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT genre) AS total_genres FROM books;

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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You've copied the question but haven't shown your code.

Give this your best "good faith" try and if you still have trouble, post your code and we can help identify the issue(s).