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Posted by Dustin Baker
Dustin Baker
1,373 Points

Database Foundations Stage 7 Challenge 1

For the first challenge in this stage:

I have tried both 

SELECT COUNT (*) AS user_count FROM users;

and 

SELECT COUNT (user) AS user_count FROM users;

I believe either should work, but it is returning an error that says I have not incorporated the COUNT function.

I feel like this is obvious. What am I missing?

1 Answer

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points

Looks like you have a space between COUNT and the parenthesis. Try this:

SELECT COUNT(*) AS user_count FROM users;
Dustin Baker
Dustin Baker
1,373 Points

Yeah that worked. Thank you!

I didn't think there were any space sensitive commands in MySql.