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2,679 Pointsselect genre,count(distinct genre) as total_genres from books group by genre
Hi this is for challenge Task 2 of 2 and its to count all the distinct genres, I been on this for weeks and I can't figure it out
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Steven Parker
231,184 PointsThe instructions ask you to "Write a query to count all the unique genres in the books table.", so you don't need a genre column or a GROUP BY:
select count(distinct genre) as total_genres from books;