EasySQL challenge #50LIMIT

First 10 Users

Retrieve first 10 users.

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

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The task

Retrieve first 10 users.

A correct answer returns 10 rows with 10 columns: id, first_name, last_name, email, phone, city, country, created_at, status, is_premium.

Tables used in this challenge

`users` 150 rows

id INTEGER (PK) · first_name TEXT · last_name TEXT · email TEXT · phone TEXT · city TEXT · country TEXT · created_at TEXT · status TEXT · is_premium INTEGER

First 3 rows of the users table
id	first_name	last_name	email	phone	city	country	created_at	status
1	Jennifer	Torres	jennifer.torres57@icloud.com	+1-263-376-2371	Houston	Canada	2024-04-13	active
2	Donna	Adams	donna.adams52@gmail.com	+1-753-780-6670	Fort Worth	Canada	2020-09-15	inactive
3	Kenneth	Young	kenneth.young94@proton.me	+1-440-743-9503	Austin	USA	2023-09-05	active

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	first_name	last_name	email	phone	city	country	created_at	status	is_premium
1	Jennifer	Torres	jennifer.torres57@icloud.com	+1-263-376-2371	Houston	Canada	2024-04-13	active	0
2	Donna	Adams	donna.adams52@gmail.com	+1-753-780-6670	Fort Worth	Canada	2020-09-15	inactive	0
3	Kenneth	Young	kenneth.young94@proton.me	+1-440-743-9503	Austin	USA	2023-09-05	active	0
4	Michael	Carter	michael.carter46@yahoo.com	+1-967-275-1964	San Antonio	France	2024-12-19	active	1
5	Robert	Campbell	robert.campbell92@icloud.com	+1-549-212-8814	New York	USA	2019-09-23	active	1
6	Deborah	Jackson	deborah.jackson53@proton.me	+1-638-376-5626	Austin	France	2021-11-24	inactive	1
7	Matthew	Rivera	matthew.rivera65@proton.me	+1-549-321-5671	San Diego	Germany	2020-06-04	active	0
8	Timothy	Campbell	timothy.campbell96@proton.me	+1-571-133-1838	Columbus	USA	2023-05-04	inactive	0
9	Sandra	Jackson	sandra.jackson9@yahoo.com	+1-206-632-4419	Philadelphia	Australia	2024-08-07	active	1
10	Nancy	Wilson	nancy.wilson30@hotmail.com	+1-342-369-1396	San Antonio	USA	2019-03-16	inactive	0

The complete result: 10 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 *
Returning only the first rows with LIMIT

Hint and approach

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

Show the hint

LIMIT 10

Show the step-by-step approach

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

Read from the users table.
Return every column with SELECT *.
Keep only the first 10 rows with LIMIT.

Model solution

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What to watch for

LIMIT. LIMIT without ORDER BY returns an arbitrary set of rows. LIMIT is also dialect-specific: SQL Server uses TOP and Oracle uses FETCH FIRST.
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.