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3,285 PointsThe quiz asked me to return a list of employees ordered by salary starting with the highest. I got it wrong?
I entered
SELECT FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, SALARY FROM EMPLOYEES ORDER BY salary DSC;
and several other variations but I coudln't get it to work. Any ideas?
2 Answers
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsFor descending order it is DESC with an e. So it would be:
ORDER BY SALARY DESC
Yves Bariuan
4,440 PointsTry this code:
Select first_name, last_name FROM employees ORDER BY salary DESC