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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Getting the Length of a String

Posted by Timothy Hong
Timothy Hong
2,949 Points

What am I doing wrong here?

SELECT title, length(title) AS longest_lenth FROM books ORDER BY longest_lenth ASC LIMIT 1;

1 Answer

Victor Mercier
Victor Mercier
14,667 Points

Try this; SELECT title, LENGTH(title) AS longest_length FROM books ORDER BY longest_length DESC limit 1;