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Courses Plus Student 1,049 PointsHelp with Length function
Somebody please show me where I am going wrong.
In the library database there's a books table with the columns id, title, author, genre and first_published.
Find the book with the longest title. Show the title and then the length. Alias the result of the length calculation to be longest_length. Only retrieve the longest book.
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SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY Length DESC LIMIT 1;
2 Answers
Joosep Ress
3,098 PointsYou don't need to order by 'longest_length' just order by "Length".
SELECT title, LENGTH(title) as longest_length FROM books order by longest_length desc limit 1;
Joel Jose
5,643 PointsYou can avoid the order by clause and limit by just keeping it simple:
select title, max(length(title)) as longest_length from books