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Development Tools Database Foundations Manipulating Schema with SQL Altering Columns

Posted by Jason Bean
Jason Bean
3,490 Points

Quiz Question Help

QUESTION Add a column to the movies table called 'genre' and is of type VARCHAR up to 25 characters in length.

ANSWER ALTER TABLE movies_table ADD COLUMN genre VARCHAR(25);

I keep getting the red error message saying my answer is incorrect ("You're not using 'ADD' to add a column to the movies table.") I know this is a simple question, but I've tried any variation I can think of for this question. I appreciate any help. Thanks.

1 Answer

Ben Rubin
Ben Rubin
Courses Plus Student 14,658 Points

The name of the table is "movies", not "movies_table". Just change that and your answer will work.

Jason Bean
Jason Bean
3,490 Points

Yup. Stupid mistake on my part. Thanks Ben!