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Challenge: North America Population Sort | Filtering Data
Introduction to SQL
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Introduction to SQL

Introduction to SQL

1. Retrieving Data
2. Sorting Retrieved Data
3. Filtering Data
4. Advanced Data Filtering
5. Aggregate Functions

Challenge: North America Population Sort

Task

Write an SQL query to retrieve the id,name, population, and continent from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order), returning only rows with the 'North America' continent, and displaying the result in descending order by population.

Note

Note that north america is not the same as North America. Be careful and write correctly: North America.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Task

Write an SQL query to retrieve the id,name, population, and continent from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order), returning only rows with the 'North America' continent, and displaying the result in descending order by population.

Note

Note that north america is not the same as North America. Be careful and write correctly: North America.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Everything was clear?

Section 3. Chapter 2
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Challenge: North America Population Sort

Task

Write an SQL query to retrieve the id,name, population, and continent from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order), returning only rows with the 'North America' continent, and displaying the result in descending order by population.

Note

Note that north america is not the same as North America. Be careful and write correctly: North America.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Task

Write an SQL query to retrieve the id,name, population, and continent from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order), returning only rows with the 'North America' continent, and displaying the result in descending order by population.

Note

Note that north america is not the same as North America. Be careful and write correctly: North America.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Everything was clear?

Section 3. Chapter 2
toggle bottom row

Challenge: North America Population Sort

Task

Write an SQL query to retrieve the id,name, population, and continent from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order), returning only rows with the 'North America' continent, and displaying the result in descending order by population.

Note

Note that north america is not the same as North America. Be careful and write correctly: North America.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Task

Write an SQL query to retrieve the id,name, population, and continent from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order), returning only rows with the 'North America' continent, and displaying the result in descending order by population.

Note

Note that north america is not the same as North America. Be careful and write correctly: North America.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Everything was clear?

Task

Write an SQL query to retrieve the id,name, population, and continent from the country table (please retrieve these columns in this order), returning only rows with the 'North America' continent, and displaying the result in descending order by population.

Note

Note that north america is not the same as North America. Be careful and write correctly: North America.

Here's a short example of the country table:

idnamecontinentregionsurfaceareacapitalpopulation
1JapanAsiaEastern Asia377829Tokyo126714000
2LatviaEuropeNULL64589Riga2424200
3MexicoNorth AmericaCentral America1958201Mexico City98881000
.....................
15MaltaEuropeSouthern Europe316Valletta380200

Section 3. Chapter 2
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