SQL – QUERIES

Technical Evaluation

INDEX

SCHEMA I......................................................................................................................................................2
TABLE 1: STUDIES.......................................................................................................................................2
TABLE 2: SOFTWARE..................................................................................................................................2
TABLE 3: PROGRAMMER...........................................................................................................................2
LEGEND:....................................................................................................................................................2
SCHEMA I - QUERIES :............................................................................................................................3
SCHEMA II.....................................................................................................................................................8
TABLE 1: DEPT ............................................................................................................................................8
TABLE 2: EMP...............................................................................................................................................8
SCHEMA II - QUERIES.............................................................................................................................8
SCHEMA I - QUERIES - ANSWERS.......................................................................................................11
SCHEMA II - QUERIES - ANSWERS......................................................................................................13
SCHEMA I
Table 1: STUDIES
Field Name Type
PNAME (VARCHAR)
SPLACE (VARCHAR)
COURSE (VARCHAR)
CCOST (NUMBER)

Table 2: SOFTWARE
Field Name Type
PNAME (VARCHAR)
TITLE (VARCHAR)
DEVIN (VARCHAR)
SCOST (NUMBER)
DCOST (NUMBER)
SOLD (NUMBER)

Table 3: PROGRAMMER
Field Name Type
PNAME (VARCHAR)
DOB (DATE)
DOJ (DATE)
SEX (CHAR)
PROF1 (VARCHAR)
PROF2 (VARCHAR)
SAL (NUMBER)

LEGEND:
PNAME – Programmer Name
SPLACE – Study Place
CCOST – Course Cost
DEVIN – Developed in
SCOST – Software Cost
DCOST – Development Cost
PROF1 – Proficiency 1
SCHEMA I - QUERIES :

1. Find out the selling cost average for packages developed in Oracle.
Answer:

2. Display the names, ages and experience of all programmers.

Answer:

3. Display the names of those who have done the PGDCA course.
Answer:

4. What is the highest number of copies sold by a package?

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5. Display the names and date of birth of all programmers born in April.
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6. Display the lowest course fee.

Answer:

7. How many programmers have done the DCA course.

Answer:
8. How much revenue has been earned through the sale of packages developed in C.
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9. Display the details of software developed by Rakesh.

Answer:

10. How many programmers studied at Pentafour.

Answer:

11. Display the details of packages whose sales crossed the 5000 mark.
Answer:

12. Find out the number of copies which should be sold in order to recover the
development cost of each package.
Answer:

13. Display the details of packages for which the development cost has been
recovered.
Answer:

14. What is the price of costliest software developed in VB?

Answer:
15. How many packages were developed in Oracle ?
Answer:

16. How many programmers studied at PRAGATHI?

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17. How many programmers paid 10000 to 15000 for the course?
Answer:

18. What is the average course fee?

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19. Display the details of programmers knowing C.

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20. How many programmers know either C or Pascal?

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21. How many programmers don’t know C and C++?

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22. How old is the oldest male programmer?

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23. What is the average age of female programmers?
Answer:

24. Calculate the experience in years for each programmer and display along with
their names in descending order.
Answer:

25. Who are the programmers who celebrate their birthdays during the current
month?
26. How many female programmers are there?
Answer:

27. What are the languages known by the male programmers?

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28. What is the average salary?

Answer:

29. How many people draw 5000 to 7500?

Answer:

30. Display the details of those who don’t know C, C++ or Pascal.
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31. Display the costliest package developed by each programmer.
Answer:

32. Produce the following output for all the male programmers
Programmer
Mr. Arvind – has 15 years of experience
Answer:
SCHEMA II
Table 1: DEPT
Field Name Type
DEPTNO (NOT NULL , NUMBER(2))
DNAME (VARCHAR2(14))
LOC (VARCHAR2(13)

Table 2: EMP
Field Name Type
EMPNO (NOT NULL , NUMBER(4))
ENAME (VARCHAR2(10))
JOB (VARCHAR2(9))
MGR (NUMBER(4))
HIREDATE (DATE)
SAL (NUMBER(7,2))
COMM (NUMBER(7,2))
DEPTNO (NUMBER(2))

Note:
1. MGR is the EMPNO of the employee whom the employee reports to.
2. DEPTNO is a foreign key.

SCHEMA II - QUERIES

1. List all the employees who have at least one person reporting to them.
Answer:

2. List the employee details if and only if more than 10 employees are present in
department no 10.
Answer:

3. List the name of the employees with their immediate higher authority.
Answer:
4. List all the employees who do not manage any one.
Answer:

5. List the employee details whose salary is greater than the lowest salary of an
employee belonging to deptno 20.
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6. List the details of the employee earning more than the highest paid manager.
Answer:

7. List the highest salary paid for each job.

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8. Find the most recently hired employee in each department.

Answer:

9. In which year did most people join the company? Display the year and the number of
employees.
Answer:

10. Which department has the highest annual remuneration bill?

Answer:
11. Write a query to display a ‘*’ against the row of the most recently hired employee.
Answer:

12. Write a correlated sub-query to list out the employees who earn more than the
average salary of their department.
Answer:

13. Find the nth maximum salary.

Answer:

14. Select the duplicate records (Records, which are inserted, that already exist) in the
EMP table.
Answer:

15. Write a query to list the length of service of the employees (of the form n years and m
months).
Answer:
SCHEMA I - QUERIES - Answers
1) SELECT AVG(SCOST) FROM SOFTWARE WHERE DEVIN = 'ORACLE';

2) SELECT PNAME,TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,DOB)/12) "AGE",

TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,DOJ)/12) "EXPERIENCE" FROM PROGRAMMER;

3) SELECT PNAME FROM STUDIES WHERE COURSE = 'PGDCA';

4) SELECT MAX(SOLD) FROM SOFTWARE;

5) SELECT PNAME, DOB FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE DOB LIKE '%APR%';

6) SELECT MIN(CCOST) FROM STUDIES;

7) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM STUDIES WHERE COURSE = 'DCA';

8) SELECT SUM(SCOST*SOLD-DCOST) FROM SOFTWARE GROUP BY DEVIN HAVING

DEVIN = 'C';

9) SELECT * FROM SOFTWARE WHERE PNAME = 'RAKESH';

10) SELECT * FROM STUDIES WHERE SPLACE = 'PENTAFOUR';

11) SELECT * FROM SOFTWARE WHERE SCOST*SOLD-DCOST > 5000;

12) SELECT CEIL(DCOST/SCOST) FROM SOFTWARE;

13) SELECT * FROM SOFTWARE WHERE SCOST*SOLD >= DCOST;

14) SELECT MAX(SCOST) FROM SOFTWARE GROUP BY DEVIN HAVING DEVIN = 'VB';

15) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SOFTWARE WHERE DEVIN = 'ORACLE';

16) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM STUDIES WHERE SPLACE = 'PRAGATHI';

17) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM STUDIES WHERE CCOST BETWEEN 10000 AND 15000;
18) SELECT AVG(CCOST) FROM STUDIES;

19) SELECT * FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE PROF1 = 'C' OR PROF2 = 'C';

20) SELECT * FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE PROF1 IN ('C','PASCAL') OR PROF2 IN

('C','PASCAL');

21) SELECT * FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE PROF1 NOT IN ('C','C++') AND PROF2 NOT IN
('C','C++');

22) SELECT TRUNC(MAX(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,DOB)/12)) FROM PROGRAMMER

WHERE SEX = 'M';

23) SELECT TRUNC(AVG(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,DOB)/12)) FROM PROGRAMMER

WHERE SEX = 'F';
24) SELECT PNAME, TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,DOJ)/12) FROM PROGRAMMER
ORDER BY PNAME DESC;

25) SELECT PNAME FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE TO_CHAR(DOB,'MON') =

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'MON');

26) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE SEX = 'F';

27) SELECT DISTINCT(PROF1) FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE SEX = 'M';

28) SELECT AVG(SAL) FROM PROGRAMMER;

29) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE SAL BETWEEN 5000 AND 7500;

30) SELECT * FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE PROF1 NOT IN ('C','C++','PASCAL') AND PROF2
NOT IN ('C','C++','PASCAL');

31) SELECT PNAME,TITLE,SCOST FROM SOFTWARE WHERE SCOST IN (SELECT

MAX(SCOST) FROM SOFTWARE GROUP BY PNAME);

32) SELECT 'Mr.' || PNAME || ' - has ' || TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,DOJ)/12) || ' years of
experience' “Programmer” FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE SEX = 'M' UNION SELECT 'Ms.' ||
PNAME || ' - has ' || TRUNC (MONTHS_BETWEEN (SYSDATE,DOJ)/12) || ' years of experience'
“Programmer” FROM PROGRAMMER WHERE SEX = 'F';
SCHEMA II - QUERIES - Answers
1) SELECT DISTINCT(A.ENAME) FROM EMP A, EMP B WHERE A.EMPNO = B.MGR; or
SELECT ENAME FROM EMP WHERE EMPNO IN (SELECT MGR FROM EMP);

2) SELECT * FROM EMP WHERE DEPTNO IN (SELECT DEPTNO FROM EMP GROUP BY
DEPTNO HAVING COUNT(EMPNO)>10 AND DEPTNO=10);

3) SELECT A.ENAME "EMPLOYEE", B.ENAME "REPORTS TO" FROM EMP A, EMP B WHERE
A.MGR=B.EMPNO;

4) SELECT * FROM EMP WHERE EMPNO IN ( SELECT EMPNO FROM EMP MINUS SELECT
MGR FROM EMP);
5) SELECT * FROM EMP WHERE SAL > ( SELECT MIN(SAL) FROM EMP GROUP BY DEPTNO
HAVING DEPTNO=20);

6) SELECT * FROM EMP WHERE SAL > ( SELECT MAX(SAL) FROM EMP GROUP BY JOB
HAVING JOB = 'MANAGER' );

7) SELECT JOB, MAX(SAL) FROM EMP GROUP BY JOB;

8) SELECT * FROM EMP WHERE (DEPTNO, HIREDATE) IN (SELECT DEPTNO,

MAX(HIREDATE) FROM EMP GROUP BY DEPTNO);

9) SELECT TO_CHAR(HIREDATE,'YYYY') "YEAR", COUNT(EMPNO) "NO. OF EMPLOYEES"

FROM EMP GROUP BY TO_CHAR(HIREDATE,'YYYY') HAVING COUNT(EMPNO) =
(SELECT MAX(COUNT(EMPNO)) FROM EMP GROUP BY TO_CHAR(HIREDATE,'YYYY'));

10) SELECT DEPTNO, LPAD(SUM(12*(SAL+NVL(COMM,0))),15) "COMPENSATION" FROM EMP

GROUP BY DEPTNO HAVING SUM( 12*(SAL+NVL(COMM,0))) = (SELECT
MAX(SUM(12*(SAL+NVL(COMM,0)))) FROM EMP GROUP BY DEPTNO);

11) SELECT ENAME, HIREDATE, LPAD('*',8) "RECENTLY HIRED" FROM EMP WHERE
HIREDATE = (SELECT MAX(HIREDATE) FROM EMP) UNION SELECT ENAME NAME,
HIREDATE, LPAD(' ',15) "RECENTLY HIRED" FROM EMP WHERE HIREDATE != (SELECT
MAX(HIREDATE) FROM EMP);

12) SELECT ENAME,SAL FROM EMP E WHERE SAL > (SELECT AVG(SAL) FROM EMP F
WHERE E.DEPTNO = F.DEPTNO);

13) SELECT ENAME, SAL FROM EMP A WHERE &N = (SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT(SAL))
FROM EMP B WHERE A.SAL<=B.SAL);

14) SELECT * FROM EMP A WHERE A.EMPNO IN (SELECT EMPNO FROM EMP GROUP BY
EMPNO HAVING COUNT(EMPNO)>1) AND A.ROWID!=MIN (ROWID));

15) SELECT ENAME "EMPLOYEE",

TO_CHAR(TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,HIREDATE)/12))||' YEARS '||
TO_CHAR(TRUNC(MOD(MONTHS_BETWEEN (SYSDATE, HIREDATE),12)))||' MONTHS '
"LENGTH OF SERVICE" FROM EMP;