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

The SqlZoo solution would better look like this:

SELECT continent, name FROM world x
WHERE name <= ALL
  (SELECT name FROM world y WHERE y.continent=x.continent)