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

Posted by Jose Testa
Jose Testa
2,051 Points

How to find the length of a value

Question and my tentative code attached.

1 Answer

Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,359 Points
Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,359 Points

I don't see your code, but the answer should be something like

SELECT title, max(length(title)) AS longest_length
FROM books;
Jose Testa
Jose Testa
2,051 Points

Thanks again, Jason! I had misspelled length as lenght. Your solution though, was more sophisticated. I liked it!