Exercise

Simple selections

It's time to begin writing your own queries! In this first coding exercise, you will use SELECT statements to retrieve columns from a database table. You'll be working with the eurovision table, which contains data relating to individual country performance at the Eurovision Song Contest from 1998 to 2012.

After selecting columns, you'll also practice renaming columns, and limiting the number of rows returned.

Instructions 1/4

XP

1
SELECT the country column FROM the eurovision table.
2
Amend your query to return the points column instead of the country column.
3
Use TOP to change the existing query so that only the first 50 rows are returned.
4
Return a list of unique countries using DISTINCT. Give the results an alias of unique_country.