SQL Fiddle Exercise 2

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Practise SQL in your browser with SQL Fiddle Part three of a sixteen-part series of blogs
Some of our poor delegates don't have the luxury of a home computer to install SQL on (even worse some have made bad life choices and picked a Mac). The good news is that you can still practise your SQL skills in your web browser, using the impressive SQL Fiddle site. Have no fear, SQL Fiddle is here, a browser based sandbox to bring you cheer! Installing and configuring SQL Fiddle SQL Fiddle Exercise 1 - SELECT SQL Fiddle Exercise 2 - Order By (this blog) SQL Fiddle Exercise 3 - Numeric Filters SQL Fiddle Exercise 4 - Date Filter SQL Fiddle Exercise 5 - Text Filters SQL Fiddle Exercise 6 - Cast or Convert Functions SQL Fiddle Exercise 7 - Conditional Function SQL Fiddle Exercise 8 - Counting Words SQL Fiddle Exercise 9 - Formatted Dates SQL Fiddle Exercise 10 - Date Calculations SQL Fiddle Exercise 11 - Inner Join SQL Fiddle Exercise 12 - Outer Join SQL Fiddle Exercise 13 - Grouping Data SQL Fiddle Exercise 14 - Having SQL Fiddle Exercise 15 - All together now!

Practise SQL in your browser with SQL Fiddle

Part three of a sixteen-part series of blogs

Some of our poor delegates don't have the luxury of a home computer to install SQL on (even worse some have made bad life choices and picked a Mac). The good news is that you can still practise your SQL skills in your web browser, using the impressive SQL Fiddle site. Have no fear, SQL Fiddle is here, a browser based sandbox to bring you cheer!

SQL Fiddle Exercise 2 - Order By

Return the 3 most recent sales and then return the 3 oldest sales in the Purchase table.

Normally you can run multiple SELECT statements but SQL Fiddle is limited to one at a time only.

For the first part of the exercise you could avoid using ORDER BY, but for this part you will need to.

Using an ORDER BY clause is the only way to guarantee the order of the data returned.

Check out the answer here.

Parts of this blog
Installing and configuring SQL Fiddle SQL Fiddle Exercise 1 - SELECT SQL Fiddle Exercise 2 - Order By (this blog) SQL Fiddle Exercise 3 - Numeric Filters SQL Fiddle Exercise 4 - Date Filter SQL Fiddle Exercise 5 - Text Filters SQL Fiddle Exercise 6 - Cast or Convert Functions SQL Fiddle Exercise 7 - Conditional Function SQL Fiddle Exercise 8 - Counting Words SQL Fiddle Exercise 9 - Formatted Dates SQL Fiddle Exercise 10 - Date Calculations SQL Fiddle Exercise 11 - Inner Join SQL Fiddle Exercise 12 - Outer Join SQL Fiddle Exercise 13 - Grouping Data SQL Fiddle Exercise 14 - Having SQL Fiddle Exercise 15 - All together now!

Parts of this blog