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Databases Reporting with SQL Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results Limiting Results

kekai borah
kekai borah
855 Points
Posted by kekai borah
kekai borah
855 Points

We're using the library database again. There's a books table. There's a title, author, genre and first_published column

We're using the library database again. There's a books table. There's a title, author, genre and first_published column.

Write a query to obtain the first 5 books in the Fantasy genre ordered by the year released. Oldest first. Select all columns.

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
  • For all columns use SELECT *
  • first 5 books use LIMIT clause
  • from Fantasy genre filter genre with WHERE clause
  • order by year released ORDER BY first_published
SELECT * FROM books WHERE genre = 'Fantasy' ORDER BY first_published LIMIT 5
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones
109 Points
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones
109 Points

I believe LIMIT isn't supported by MSAccess or SQL Server - for those you can use:

SELECT TOP 5 * FROM books WHERE genre = 'Fantasy' ORDER BY first_published