EasySQL challenge #25ORDER BY

Top Rated Products

List products sorted by rating descending.

The challenge runs on the SQLabHub practice database (SQLite) and uses the products table. You can solve it in the browser, with nothing to install.

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The task

List products sorted by rating descending.

A correct answer returns 120 rows with 10 columns: id, name, category, price, cost, stock, sku, status, rating, review_count.

Tables used in this challenge

`products` 120 rows

id INTEGER (PK) · name TEXT · category TEXT · price REAL · cost REAL · stock INTEGER · sku TEXT · status TEXT · rating REAL · review_count INTEGER

First 3 rows of the products table
id	name	category	price	cost	stock	sku	status	rating	review_count
1	Play Kitchen Deluxe	Toys	1786.38	589.51	257	SKU-000001	active	4	57
2	Micro-Cut Paper Shredder 8-Sheet	Office Supplies	907.93	281.46	131	SKU-000002	active	2.5	447
3	4K Dual Dash Camera	Automotive	568.89	204.8	176	SKU-000003	active	4.1	29

The first rows of each table are shown. See how all the tables relate on the database schema page.

Expected output

Expected output of the challenge
id	name	category	price	cost	stock	sku	status	rating	review_count
5	Premium Beard Oil 60ml	Health & Beauty	1428.31	428.49	183	SKU-000005	active	5	305
14	Play Kitchen Deluxe	Toys	1840.63	773.06	366	SKU-000014	active	5	40
15	Japanese Green Tea 50 bags	Food & Beverage	1810.45	995.75	206	SKU-000015	active	5	300
47	The Manager's Path	Books	492.97	182.4	244	SKU-000047	active	5	440
95	SPF 50 Mineral Sunscreen	Health & Beauty	282.25	141.13	325	SKU-000095	active	5	344

First 5 of 120 rows. This is the output of the model solution on the practice database.

What you practise

Returning every column of a table with SELECT *
Sorting the result with ORDER BY

Hint and approach

Try the challenge first. Open these only when you need them.

Show the hint

ORDER BY rating DESC

Show the step-by-step approach

How the model solution is built, in the order the database evaluates it:

Read from the products table.
Return every column with SELECT *.
Sort the result by rating descending.

Model solution

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What to watch for

ORDER BY. Without ORDER BY the row order is not guaranteed, even if it looks stable. Rows that tie on the sort columns can come back in any order.
SELECT *. SELECT * is fine for exploring, but its output changes whenever a column is added to the table. Queries that feed a report should name their columns.