Hi, I have this query: SELECT title, artist, hd, bank, bookmark, genre, class, classnumber FROM music WHERE classnumber=6 OR classnumber=7 AND hd="B" UNION SELECT title, artist, hd, bank, bookmark, genre, class, classnumber FROM music WHERE classnumber=8 OR classnumber=9 AND hd="A" ORDER BY random() LIMIT 2;
And I get this error: SQL near line 1: 1st ORDER BY term does not match any column in the result set The data that I need is all in the same table, but I need to run queries based on the classnumber. I tried a number of different ways but couldn't figure this out, even after googling. I figured that this was similar to the query I used in MySQL, except I learned that the ORDER BY clause had to be put at the end of the SELECT statements. I actually need to have a limit on each SELECT clause so that I only get one record from either classnumbers 6 or 7 and then one record from classnumbers 8 or 9, randomly chosen. I thought that I needed to write it like this: SELECT title, artist, hd, bank, bookmark, genre, class, classnumber FROM music WHERE classnumber=6 OR classnumber=7 AND hd="B" ORDER BY random() LIMIT 1 UNION SELECT title, artist, hd, bank, bookmark, genre, class, classnumber FROM music WHERE classnumber=8 OR classnumber=9 AND hd="A" ORDER BY random() LIMIT 1; ...but that doesn't work either. Notice that I put only 1 semicolon at the very end of the compound statement. If I order it by one of the columns, the query works, but only for one SELECT statement (I can't get the UNION to work at all). What is wrong with the way I wrote this query? Thanks. -- VR~ TW Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Knowledge Is Power" _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users