Question

Here’s my code. I’m not sure what I am doing wrong with it. The database is named inventory, the table is named data. I am trying to order from the earliest date in a field named check_up date, and pull the first two earliest. I want to exclude users that have the names “nobody”, “mainconf” and “testing”:

SELECT user
FROM data
ORDER by checkup_date
WHERE data.name != "nobody"
   AND WHERE data.name != "mainconf"
   AND WHERE data.name != "testing" ASC
LIMIT 2

Here’s my error:

(1064, 'You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
\'WHERE data.name != "nobody" AND WHERE data.name != "mainconf" AND WHERE
data.nam\' at line 1')

Answer 1

These are the errors:

1. The ORDER BY must be after the WHERE clausole and before the LIMIT
2. You don’t need to repeat every time the WHERE. Just write the AND and you’ve done.