Error using Order By, Where and Limit in a query together

  • Resolved mikegallimore

    (@mikegallimore)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    I am trying to sort data (Column I) pertaining to different individuals (Column C) but only want to show the top three results for a particular state (ALL).

    I am able to successfully query the top three individual results for the particular state:

    <td>ALL</td>
<td>[gdoc key="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o6a-sH57Nr1qhLYDGq0PFWrMIkuGpG3YcwMfTkK59s/edit?usp=sharing" gid="1558689791" class="no-datatables" query="SELECT C, I WHERE F = 'ALL' LIMIT 3 " ]</td>

    I am also able to successfully query all of the individual results and sort them:

    <td>ALL</td>
<td>[gdoc key="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o6a-sH57Nr1qhLYDGq0PFWrMIkuGpG3YcwMfTkK59s/edit?usp=sharing" gid="1558689791" class="no-datatables" query="SELECT C, I ORDER BY I DESC" ]</td>

    I get an error message, however, if I try to query the sorted individual results and display only the top three individual results for the particular state:

    <td>ALL</td>
<td>[gdoc key="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o6a-sH57Nr1qhLYDGq0PFWrMIkuGpG3YcwMfTkK59s/edit?usp=sharing" gid="1558689791" class="no-datatables" query="SELECT C, I ORDER BY I DESC WHERE F = 'ALL' LIMIT 3 " ]</td>

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  • Thread Starter mikegallimore

    (@mikegallimore)

    Figured it out. The WHERE condition apparently needed to come before the ORDER BY. The following query worked:
    <td>[gdoc key="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11o6a-sH57Nr1qhLYDGq0PFWrMIkuGpG3YcwMfTkK59s/edit?usp=sharing" gid="1558689791" class="no-datatables" query="SELECT C, I WHERE F = 'ALL' ORDER BY I DESC LIMIT 3" ]</td>

    Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    Glad you got it working on your own, Mike. ??

    For future reference, the order of the query clauses is defined by Google here.

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