Active Products
Retrieve products with active status.
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.
The task
Retrieve products with active status.
A correct answer returns 113 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
| id | name | category | price | cost | stock | sku | status | rating | review_count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The first rows of each table are shown. See how all the tables relate on the database schema page.
Expected output
| id | name | category | price | cost | stock | sku | status | rating | review_count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First 5 of 113 rows. This is the output of the model solution on the practice database. The task does not fix a sort order, so your rows may come back in a different order.
What you practise
- Returning every column of a table with SELECT *
- Filtering rows with a WHERE condition
Hint and approach
Try the challenge first. Open these only when you need them.
Show the hint
status filter
Show the step-by-step approach
How the model solution is built, in the order the database evaluates it:
- Read from the
productstable. - Filter in
WHERE: keep the rows wherestatusequals 'active'. - Return every column with
SELECT *.
Model solution
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What to watch for
- WHERE. WHERE is evaluated before the SELECT list, so it cannot use a column alias defined there or the result of an aggregate.
- 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.
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