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ORDER BY and LIMIT

Sort shillings, take two.

Sort, then take a few rows.

Goal

Sort shillings descending and take two.

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS sales;
CREATE TABLE sales (
  city TEXT,
  units INTEGER,
  shillings INTEGER
);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES
  ('Nairobi', 12, 480),
  ('Mombasa', 8, 320),
  ('Kisumu', 5, 200);

SELECT city, shillings FROM sales ORDER BY shillings DESC;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS sales;
CREATE TABLE sales (
  city TEXT,
  units INTEGER,
  shillings INTEGER
);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES
  ('Nairobi', 12, 480),
  ('Mombasa', 8, 320),
  ('Kisumu', 5, 200);

SELECT city, units FROM sales ORDER BY units ASC LIMIT 2;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS sales;
CREATE TABLE sales (
  city TEXT,
  units INTEGER,
  shillings INTEGER
);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES
  ('Nairobi', 12, 480),
  ('Mombasa', 8, 320),
  ('Kisumu', 5, 200);

SELECT city FROM sales ORDER BY city;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS sales;
CREATE TABLE sales (
  city TEXT,
  units INTEGER,
  shillings INTEGER
);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES
  ('Nairobi', 12, 480),
  ('Mombasa', 8, 320),
  ('Kisumu', 5, 200);

SELECT city, shillings FROM sales ORDER BY shillings DESC LIMIT 1;