SQL Exercises

SQL Exercises

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1. List employees whose Daily salary is more than 100.

+-------+------------+
| ename | Daily sal  |
+-------+------------+
| BUSH  | 166.666667 |
+-------+------------+

2. *Select employees with the longest name. (subqueries)

+----------+
| ename    |
+----------+
| THATCHER |
| CARNEGIE |
+----------+

3. List the emps in the asc order of Designations of those joined after the second half of 1981.

+----------+-----------+------------+
| ename    | job       | hiredate   |
+----------+-----------+------------+
| TOOSK    | ANALYST   | 1981-12-03 |
| CARNEGIE | ANALYST   | 1982-12-09 |
| BUFFETT  | CLERK     | 1981-12-03 |
| FORD     | CLERK     | 1983-01-12 |
| ELISON   | CLERK     | 1982-01-23 |
| BUSH     | PRESIDENT | 1981-11-17 |
| CHIRACK  | SALESMAN  | 1981-09-28 |
| GATES    | SALESMAN  | 1981-09-08 |
+----------+-----------+------------+

4. List the emps whose Annual salary is ranging from 22000 and 45000.

+----------+----------+
| ename    | Annual   |
+----------+----------+
| BLAIR    | 34200.00 |
| MERKEL   | 29400.00 |
| PUTIN    | 35700.00 |
| TOOSK    | 36000.00 |
| CARNEGIE | 36000.00 |
+----------+----------+

5. List the emps who joined in the month of which second character is 'a'.

+--------+----------+
| ename  | hiredate |
+--------+----------+
| BLAIR  | May      |
| FORD   | January  |
| ELISON | January  |
+--------+----------+

6. List the emps whose Sal is four digit number ending with Zero.

+----------+---------+
| ename    | sal     |
+----------+---------+
| BUSH     | 5000.00 |
| BLAIR    | 2850.00 |
| MERKEL   | 2450.00 |
| CHIRACK  | 1250.00 |
| BAROSSO  | 1600.00 |
| GATES    | 1500.00 |
| WALTON   | 1250.00 |
| TOOSK    | 3000.00 |
| CARNEGIE | 3000.00 |
| FORD     | 1100.00 |
| ELISON   | 1300.00 |
+----------+---------+

7. List all the emps who joined before or after 1981.

+----------+------------+
| ename    | HIREDATE   |
+----------+------------+
| THATCHER | 1980-12-17 |
| CARNEGIE | 1982-12-09 |
| FORD     | 1983-01-12 |
| ELISON   | 1982-01-23 |
+----------+------------+

8. List the emps who joined in any year but not in Dec.

+---------+------------+
| ename   | hiredate   |
+---------+------------+
| BUSH    | 1981-11-17 |
| BLAIR   | 1981-05-01 |
| MERKEL  | 1981-06-09 |
| PUTIN   | 1981-04-02 |
| CHIRACK | 1981-09-28 |
| BAROSSO | 1981-02-20 |
| GATES   | 1981-09-08 |
| WALTON  | 1981-02-22 |
| FORD    | 1983-01-12 |
| ELISON  | 1982-01-23 |
+---------+------------+

9. Display the location of TOOSK

+---------+------------+
| ename   | loc        |
+---------+------------+
| TOOSK   | LONDON     |
+---------+------------+

10. *List the EMPS who are not working under the president AND HAVE EMPLOYEES.

+------+----------+---------+------+
| id   | ename    | job     | mgr  |
+------+----------+---------+------+
| 7902 | TOOSK    | ANALYST | 7566 |
| 7788 | CARNEGIE | ANALYST | 7566 |
+------+----------+---------+------+

11. List those Emps whose Salary is odd value (unpaired)

+-------+---------+
| ename | sal     |
+-------+---------+
| PUTIN | 2975.00 |
+-------+---------+

12. **List THE Name of department where highest no. of employees are working

+------+----------+---------+------------+
| No   | Name     | City    | No of emps |
+------+----------+---------+------------+
| 30   | SALES    | PARIS   | 6          |
+------+----------+---------+------------+

13. *Produce below report (sum)

+------+--------------------+------------+
| DEP  | NAZ                | SAL        |
+------+--------------------+------------+
| 10   | * All employees *  | 8750.00    |
| 10   | BUSH               | 5000.00    |
| 10   | ELISON             | 1300.00    |
| 10   | MERKEL             | 2450.00    |
| 20   | * All employees *  | 10875.00   |
| 20   | CARNEGIE           | 3000.00    |
| 20   | FORD               | 1100.00    |
| 20   | PUTIN              | 2975.00    |
| 20   | THATCHER           | 800.00     |
| 20   | TOOSK              | 3000.00    |
+------+--------------------+------------+

14. **Yet another report (sum of sums)

+--------------------+-------------------+------------+
| DEP                | NAZ               | SAL        |
+--------------------+-------------------+------------+
| * Both 10 and 20 * | * All employees * | 19625.00   |
| 10                 | * All employees * | 8750.00    |
| 10                 | BUSH              | 5000.00    |
| 10                 | ELISON            | 1300.00    |
| 10                 | MERKEL            | 2450.00    |
| 20                 | * All employees * | 10875.00   |
| 20                 | CARNEGIE          | 3000.00    |
| 20                 | FORD              | 1100.00    |
| 20                 | PUTIN             | 2975.00    |
| 20                 | THATCHER          | 800.00     |
| 20                 | TOOSK             | 3000.00    |
+--------------------+-------------------+------------+

DDL, DML

1. Add new table spies to mike db
   • column id, 3 chars only, can't be empty - '007', '006', '013', etc
   • column loc, same as in dept, it should be referable from dept.loc
     • how to do that? HINT: try to alter dept table first, what can we say?
     • fix it - how? HINT: insert all the possible refs first and then alter dept
   • column active, boolean, can't be empty
   • column missions, max 3 digits number - amount of spy's missions
2. Modify table spies
   • add new column special, string, describes special agent abilities
   • add new index spy, built with columns active and missions
3. Insert 4 rows into spies table
   • 2 rows with full syntax
   • 2 rows with short syntax
   • make sure there is at least 1 row with not active spy
4. Update 2 rows with some special abilities
   • 1st row for Paris - big guns
   • 2nd for New York - lockpicks
5. Delete only not active spies
   • discussion (-:
6. Create read-only view called SUMS_REPORT with the result of query from additional exercise no 14
   • Query the view and show also job and grade

DEP                                      NAZ                      SAL JOB            GRADE
---------------------------------------- ----------------- ---------- --------- ----------
* All deps *                             * All employees *      19625                     
10                                       * All employees *       8750                     
10                                       BUSH                    5000 PRESIDENT          5
10                                       ELISON                  1300 CLERK              2
10                                       MERKEL                  2450 MANAGER            4
20                                       * All employees *      10875                     
20                                       CARNEGIE                3000 ANALYST            4
20                                       FORD                    1100 CLERK              1
20                                       PUTIN                   2975 MANAGER            4
20                                       THATCHER                 800 CLERK              1
20                                       TOOSK                   3000 ANALYST            4

11 rows selected.

hierarchyid (mssql)

1. built-in column type in SQLServer
   • supports searching hierarchies with built-in functions
2. Create this table with hierarchy. Find all the levels (=

CREATE TABLE Emps (
    EmpID INT PRIMARY KEY,
    EmpName VARCHAR(100),
    ManagerID hierarchyid
);


CREATE UNIQUE INDEX EmpsMgrNc1
ON Emps(ManagerID);
GO

INSERT INTO Emps (EmpID, EmpName, ManagerID)
VALUES (1, 'Luke Falcon', NULL),
       (2, 'Monique Falcon', '/'),
       (3, 'John Falcon', '/1/1/'),
       (4, 'Coraline Falcon', '/1/'),
	   (5, 'Mike Falcon', '/2/')
	   ;

1. HOMEWORK: Make it better, accordingly to below instructions
   • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/tables/lesson-2-creating-and-managing-data-in-a-hierarchical-table?view=sql-server-ver16

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