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

Posted by Jessie Starborne
Jessie Starborne
6,875 Points

This 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
Peter Vann
36,427 Points

Hi 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
Jessie Starborne
6,875 Points

Yeah, 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
Thuy Van Ngo
3,289 Points
Thuy Van Ngo
Thuy Van Ngo
3,289 Points

Thanks a lot! Yes, it passes. It's very frustrating doing this kind of challenge where no answer seems to be correct.