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Start your free trialJessie Starborne
6,875 PointsThis question doesn't clearly state how it wants longest_length formatted.
Tried a few different methods of stringing together the title and the length, but it doesn't like any of them. :/
1 Answer
Peter Vann
36,427 PointsHi Jesse!
This passes:
SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length
FROM books
ORDER BY LENGTH(title) DESC
LIMIT 1;
And/But there are other ways to get the same or even better results.
More info:
https://tableplus.com/blog/2019/09/select-rows-with-longest-string-value-sql.html
I hope that helps.
Stay safe and happy coding!
Jessie Starborne
6,875 PointsJessie Starborne
6,875 PointsYeah, I realized after a while that the question wasn't asking to concatenate the title with the length into longest_length, but to simply select both. x.X
Thank you for your help!
Thuy Van Ngo
3,289 PointsThuy Van Ngo
3,289 PointsThanks a lot! Yes, it passes. It's very frustrating doing this kind of challenge where no answer seems to be correct.