MySQL - SELECT the name that comes first alphabetically

Question

I have started to learn MySQL.

Here is the table world:

+-------------+-----------+---------+
|    name     | continent |  area   |
+--         


        

Answer 1

what about this sql :

select distinct continent, 
      (select name 
       from world y where y.continent = x.continent limit 1 ) as name 
from world x