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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed the following topics: basic SQL SELECT statement, basic iSQL*Plus commands, and SQL functions. 1. Show all data of the clerks who have been hired after the year 1997.

2. Show the last name, job, salary, and commission of those employees who earn commission. Sort the data by the salary in descending order.

3. Show the employees that have no commission with a 10% raise in their salary (round off the salaries).

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4. Show the last names of all employees together with the number of years and the number of completed months that they have been employed.

5. Show those employees that have a name starting with J, K, L, or M.

6. Show all employees, and indicate with Yes or No whether they receive a commission.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed the following topics: SQL basic SELECT statement, basic iSQL*Plus commands, SQL functions, joins, and group functions. 7. Show the department names, locations, names, job titles, and salaries of employees who work in location 1800.

8. How many employees have a name that ends with an n? Create two possible solutions.

9. Show the names and locations for all departments, and the number of employees working in each department. Make sure that departments without employees are included as well.

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10. Which jobs are found in departments 10 and 20?

11. Which jobs are found in the Administration and Executive departments, and how many employees do these jobs? Show the job with the highest frequency first.

These exercises can be used for some extra practice after you have discussed the following topics: basic SQL SELECT statements, basic iSQL*Plus commands, SQL functions, joins, group functions, subqueries. 12. Show all employees who were hired in the first half of the month (before the 16th of the month).

13. Show the names, salaries, and the number of dollars (in thousands) that all employees earn.

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14. Show all employees who have managers with a salary higher than $15,000. Show the following data: employee name, manager name, manager salary, and salary grade of the manager.

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15. Show the department number, name, number of employees, and average salary of all departments, together with the names, salaries, and jobs of the employees working in each department.

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16. Show the department number and the lowest salary of the department with the highest average salary.

17. Show the department numbers, names, and locations of the departments where no sales representatives work.

18. Show the department number, department name, and the number of employees working in each department that: a. Includes fewer than 3 employees:

b. Has the highest number of employees:

c. Has the lowest number of employees:

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19. Show the employee number, last name, salary, department number, and the average salary in their department for all employees.

20. Show all employees who were hired on the day of the week on which the highest number of employees were hired.

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21. Create an anniversary overview based on the hire date of the employees. Sort the anniversaries in ascending order.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed using SET operators. 22. Find the job that was filled in the first half of 1990 and the same job that was filled during the same period in 1991.

23. Write a compound query to produce a list of employees showing raise percentages, employee IDs, and old salary and new salary increase. Employees in departments 10, 50, and 110 are given a 5% raise, employees in department 60 are given a 10% raise, employees in departments 20 and 80 are given a 15% raise, and employees in department 90 are not given a raise.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed Oracle9i single row functions. Note: The output might be different based on the date when the command is executed. 24. 25. Alter the session to set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT to DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS. a. Write queries to display the time zone offsets (TZ_OFFSET) for the following time zones. - Australia/Sydney

- Chile/Easter Island

b. Alter the session to set the TIME_ZONE parameter value to the time zone offset of Australia/Sydney. c. Display the SYSDATE, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and LOCALTIMESTAMP for this session. Note: The output might be different based on the date when the command is executed.

d. Alter the session to set the TIME_ZONE parameter value to the time zone offset of Chile/Easter Island.

Note: The results of the preceding question are based on a different date, and in some cases they will not match the actual results that the students get. Also, the time zone offset of the various countries might differ, based on daylight savings time.

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e.

Display the SYSDATE, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and LOCALTIMESTAMP for this session.

Note: The output might be different based on the date when the command is executed.

Note: Observe in the preceding question that CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and LOCALTIMESTAMP are all sensitive to the session time zone. Observe that SYSDATE is not sensitive to the session time zone. Note: The results of the preceding question are based on a different date, and in some cases they will not match the actual results that the students get. Also the time zone offset of the various countries might differ based on daylight savings time. f. Alter the session to set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT to DD-MON-YYYY.

26. Write a query to display the last names, month of the date of join, and hire date of those employees who have joined in the month of January, irrespective of the year of join.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed enhancements to the GROUP BY clause. 27. Write a query to display the following for those departments whose department ID is greater than 80: - The total salary for every job within a department - The total salary - The total salary for those cities in which the departments are located - The total salary for every job, irrespective of the department - The total salary for every department irrespective of the city - The total salary of the cities in which the departments are located - Total salary for the departments, irrespective of job titles and cities

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28. Write a query to display the following groupings: - Department ID, Job ID - Job ID, Manager ID The query should calculate the maximum and minimum salaries for each of these groups.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed advanced subqueries. 29. Write a query to display the top three earners in the EMPLOYEES table. Display their last names and salaries.

30. Write a query to display the employee ID and last names of the employees who work in the state of California. Hint: Use scalar subqueries.

31. Write a query to delete the oldest JOB_HISTORY row of an employee by looking up the JOB_HISTORY table for the MIN(START_DATE) for the employee. Delete the records of only those employees who have changed at least two jobs. If your query executes correctly, you will get the feedback: Hint: Use a correlated DELETE command. 32. Roll back the transaction.

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33. Write a query to display the job IDs of those jobs whose maximum salary is above half the maximum salary in the whole company. Use the WITH clause to write this query. Name the query MAX_SAL_CALC.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed hierarchical retrieval. 34. Write a SQL statement to display employee number, last name, start date, and salary, showing: a. De Haans direct reports

b. The organization tree under De Haan (employee number 102)

35. Write a hierarchical query to display the employee number, manager number, and employee last name for all employees who are two levels below employee De Haan (employee number 102). Also display the level of the employee.

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36. Produce a hierarchical report to display the employee number, manager number, the LEVEL pseudocolumn, and employee last name. For every row in the EMPLOYEES table, you should print a tree structure showing the employee, the employees manager, then the managers manager, and so on. Use indentations for the NAME column.

Note: The output shown is only a sample. All the rows from the actual output are not included here.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed Oracle 9i extensions to DML and DDL statements. Note: Run the cre_special_sal.sql , cre_sal_history.sql , cre_mgr_history.sql scripts in the lab folder to create the SPECIAL_SAL, SAL_HISTORY and MGR_HISTORY tables. 37. Write a query to do the following: - Retrieve the details of the employee ID, hire date, salary, and manager ID of those employees whose employee ID is more than or equal to 200 from the EMPLOYEES table. - If the salary is less than $5,000, insert the details of employee ID and salary into the SPECIAL_SAL table. - Insert the details of employee ID, hire date, and salary into the SAL_HISTORY table. - Insert the details of employee ID, manager ID, and salary into the MGR_HISTORY table. 38. Query the SPECIAL_SAL, SAL_HISTORY and the MGR_HISTORY tables to view the inserted records.

SAL_HISTORY Table

MGR_HISTORY Table

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39. Create the LOCATIONS_NAMED_INDEX table based on the following table instance chart. Name the index for the PRIMARY KEY column as LOCATIONS_PK_IDX.
COLUMN Name Primary Key Datatype Length Deptno Yes Number 4 VARCHAR2 30 Dname

40. Query the USER_INDEXES table to display the INDEX_NAME for the LOCATIONS_NAMED_INDEX table.

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This exercise can be used for extra practice after you have discussed writing advanced scripts. 41. Write a SQL script file to drop all objects (tables, views, indexes, sequences, synonyms, and so on) that you own. Note: The output shown is only a guideline.

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed the following topics: basic SQL SELECT statement, basic iSQL*Plus commands, and SQL functions. 1. Show all data for clerks hired after the year 1997. SELECT * FROM employees WHERE job_id = ST_CLERK AND hire_date > 31-DEC-1997; 2. Show the last name, job, salary, and commission of those employees who earn commission. Sort the data by the salary in descending order. SELECT last_name, job_id, salary, commission_pct FROM employees WHERE commission_pct IS NOT NULL ORDER BY salary DESC; 3. Show the employees who have no commission, but have a 10% raise in their salary (round off the salaries). SELECT The salary of ||last_name|| after a 10% raise is || ROUND(salary*1.10) "New salary" FROM employees WHERE commission_pct IS NULL; 4. Show the last names of all employees together with the number of years and the number of completed months that they have been employed. SELECT last_name, TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE, hire_date) / 12) YEARS, TRUNC(MOD(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE, hire_date), 12)) MONTHS FROM employees; 5. Show those employees that have a name starting with J, K, L, or M. SELECT last_name FROM employees WHERE SUBSTR(last_name, 1,1) IN (J, K, L, M);

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6. Show all employees, and indicate with Yes or No whether they receive a commission. SELECT last_name, salary, decode(commission_pct, FROM employees; NULL, No, Yes) commission

These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed the following topics: SQL basic SELECT statement, basic iSQL*Plus commands, SQL functions, joins, and group functions. 7. Show the department names, locations, names, job titles, and salaries of employees who work in location 1800. SELECT d.department_name, d.location_id, e.last_name, e.job_id, e.salary FROM employees e, departments d WHERE e.department_id = d.department_id AND d.location_id = 1800; 8. How many employees have a name that ends with an n? Create two possible solutions. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employees WHERE last_name LIKE %n; SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employees WHERE SUBSTR(last_name, -1) = n; 9. Show the names and locations for all departments and the number of employees working in each department. Make sure that departments without employees are included as well. SELECT d.department_id, d.department_name, d.location_id, COUNT(e.employee_id) FROM employees e, departments d WHERE e.department_id(+) = d.department_id GROUP BY d.department_id, d.department_name, d.location_id;

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10. Which jobs are found in departments 10 and 20? SELECT DISTINCT job_id FROM employees WHERE department_id IN (10, 20); 11. Which jobs are found in the administrative and executive departments, and how many employees do these jobs? Show the job with the highest frequency first. SELECT e.job_id, count(e.job_id) FREQUENCY FROM employees e, departments d WHERE e.department_id = d.department_id AND d.department_name IN (Administration, Executive) GROUP BY e.job_id ORDER BY FREQUENCY DESC; These exercises can be used for some extra practice after you have discussed the following topics: basic SQL SELECT statements, basic iSQL*Plus commands, SQL functions, joins, group functions, subqueries. 12. Show all employees who were hired in the first half of the month (before the 16th of the month). SELECT last_name, hire_date FROM employees WHERE TO_CHAR(hire_date, DD) < 16; 13. Show the names, salaries, and the number of dollars (in thousands) that each employee earns. SELECT last_name, salary, TRUNC(salary, -3)/1000 Thousands FROM employees; 14. Show all employees who have managers with a salary higher than $15,000. Show the following data: employee name, manager name, manager salary, and salary grade of the manager. SELECT e.last_name, m.last_name manager, m.salary, j.grade_level FROM employees e, employees m, job_grades j WHERE e.manager_id = m.employee_id AND m.salary BETWEEN j.lowest_sal AND j.highest_sal AND m.salary > 15000;

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15. Show the department number, name, number of employees, and average salary of all departments, together with the names, salaries, and jobs of the employees working in each department. BREAK ON department_id ON department_name ON employees ON avg_sal SKIP 1 SELECT d.department_id, d.department_name, count(e1.employee_id) employees, NVL(TO_CHAR(AVG(e1.salary), 99999.99), No average ) avg_sal, e2.last_name, e2.salary, e2.job_id FROM departments d, employees e1, employees e2 WHERE d.department_id = e1.department_id(+) AND d.department_id = e2.department_id(+) GROUP BY d.department_id, d.department_name, e2.last_name, e2.salary, e2.job_id ORDER BY d.department_id, employees; CLEAR BREAKS 16. Show the department number and the lowest salary of the department with the highest average salary. SELECT department_id, MIN(salary) FROM employees GROUP BY department_id HAVING AVG(salary) = (SELECT MAX(AVG(salary)) FROM employees GROUP BY department_id); 17. Show the department numbers, names, and locations of the departments where no sales representatives work. SELECT * FROM departments WHERE department_id NOT IN(SELECT department_id FROM employees WHERE job_id = SA_REP AND department_id IS NOT NULL); 18. Show the department number and name, and the number of employees working in each department that: a. Has fewer than three employees: SELECT d.department_id, d.department_name, COUNT(*) FROM departments d, employees e WHERE d.department_id = e.department_id GROUP BY d.department_id, d.department_name HAVING COUNT(*) < 3; Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Additional Practices Solutions-5

b. Has the highest number of employees: SELECT d.department_id, d.department_name, FROM departments d, employees e WHERE d.department_id = e.department_id GROUP BY d.department_id, d.department_name HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT MAX(COUNT(*)) FROM employees GROUP BY department_id); c. Has the lowest number of employees: SELECT d.department_id, d.department_name, FROM departments d, employees e WHERE d.department_id = e.department_id GROUP BY d.department_id, d.department_name HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT MIN(COUNT(*)) FROM employees GROUP BY department_id); COUNT(*) COUNT(*)

19. Show the employee number, last name, salary, department number, and the average salary in their department for all employees. SELECT e.employee_id, e.last_name, e.department_id, AVG(s.salary) FROM employees e, employees s WHERE e.department_id = s.department_id GROUP BY e.employee_id, e.last_name, e.department_id; 20. Show all employees who were hired on the day of the week on which the highest number of employees were hired. SELECT last_name, TO_CHAR(hire_date, DAY) day FROM employees WHERE TO_CHAR(hire_date, Day) = (SELECT TO_CHAR(hire_date, Day) FROM employees GROUP BY TO_CHAR(hire_date, Day) HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT MAX(COUNT(*)) FROM employees GROUP BY TO_CHAR(hire_date, Day)));

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21. Create an anniversary overview based on the hire date of the employees. Sort the anniversaries in ascending order. SELECT last_name, TO_CHAR(hire_date, Month DD) BIRTHDAY FROM employees ORDER BY TO_CHAR(hire_date, DDD);

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed SET operators. 22. Find the job that was filled in the first half of 1990 and the same job that was filled during the same period in 1991. SELECT job_id FROM employees WHERE hire_date BETWEEN 01-JAN-1990 AND 30-JUN-1990 INTERSECT SELECT job_id FROM employees WHERE hire_date BETWEEN 01-JAN-1991 AND 30-JUN-1991; 23. Write a compound query to produce a list of employees showing raise percentages, employee IDs, and old salary, and new salary increase. Employees in departments 10, 50, and 110 are given a 5% raise, employees in department 60 are given a 10% raise, employees in departments 20 and 80 are given a 15% raise, and employees in department 90 are not given a raise. SELECT 05% raise raise, employee_id, salary, salary *.05 new_salary FROM employees WHERE department_id IN (10,50, 110) UNION SELECT 10% raise, employee_id, salary, salary * .10 FROM employees WHERE department_id = 60 UNION SELECT 15% raise, employee_id, salary, salary * .15 FROM employees WHERE department_id IN (20, 80) UNION SELECT no raise, employee_id, salary, salary FROM employees WHERE department_id = 90;

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed Oracle9i single row functions. 24. Alter the session to set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT to DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS. ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS; 25. a. Write queries to display the time zone offsets (TZ_OFFSET), for the following time zones. - Australia/Sydney SELECT TZ_OFFSET (Australia/Sydney) from dual; - Chile/EasterIsland SELECT TZ_OFFSET (Chile/EasterIsland) from dual; b. Alter the session to set the TIME_ZONE parameter value to the time zone offset of Australia/Sydney. ALTER SESSION SET TIME_ZONE = +10:00; c. Display the SYSDATE, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and LOCALTIMESTAMP for this session. Note: The output might be different based on the date when the command is executed. SELECT SYSDATE,CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIMESTAMP FROM DUAL; d. Alter the session to set the TIME_ZONE parameter value to the time zone offset of Chile/EasterIsland. ALTER SESSION SET TIME_ZONE = -06:00;

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e. Display the SYSDATE, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and LOCALTIMESTAMP for this session. Note: The output might be different based on the date when the command is executed. SELECT SYSDATE,CURRENT_DATE, FROM DUAL; CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIMESTAMP

f. Alter the session to set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT to DD-MON-YYYY. ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = DD-MON-YYYY; Note: Observe in the preceding question that CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and LOCALTIMESTAMP are all sensitive to the session time zone. Observe that SYSDATE is not sensitive to the session time zone. Note: The results of the preceding question are based on a different date, and in some cases they will not match the actual results that the students get. Also the time zone offset of the various countries might differ, based on daylight savings time. 26. Write a query to display the last names, month of the date of join, and hire date of those employees who have joined in the month of January, irrespective of the year of join. SELECT last_name, EXTRACT (MONTH FROM HIRE_DATE),HIRE_DATE FROM employees WHERE EXTRACT (MONTH FROM HIRE_DATE) = 1;

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed enhancements to the GROUP BY clause 27. Write a query to display the following for those departments whose department ID is greater than 80: - The total salary for every job within a department - The total salary - The total salary for those cities in which the departments are located - The total salary for every job, irrespective of the department - The total salary for every department irrespective of the city - The total salary of the cities in which the departments are located - Total salary for the departments, irrespective of job titles and cities

COLUMN COLUMN COLUMN COLUMN SELECT FROM WHERE AND AND GROUP

city FORMAT A25 Heading CITY department_name FORMAT A15 Heading DNAME job_id FORMAT A10 Heading JOB SUM(salary) FORMAT $99,99,999.00 Heading SUM(SALARY) l.city,d.department_name, e.job_id, SUM(e.salary) locations l,employees e,departments d d.location_id = l.location_id e.department_id = d.department_id e.department_id > 80 BY CUBE( l.city,d.department_name, e.job_id);

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28. Write a query to display the following groupings: - Department ID, Job ID - Job ID, Manager ID The query should calculate the maximum and minimum salaries for each of these groups. SELECT department_id, job_id, manager_id,max(salary),min(salary) FROM employees GROUP BY GROUPING SETS ((department_id,job_id), (job_id,manager_id));

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These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed advanced subqueries. 29. Write a query to display the top three earners in the EMPLOYEES table. Display their last names and salaries. SELECT last_name, salary FROM employees e WHERE 3 > (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employees WHERE e.salary < salary); 30. Write a query to display the employee ID and last names of the employees who work in the state of California. Hint: Use scalar subqueries. SELECT employee_id, last_name FROM employees e WHERE ((SELECT location_id FROM departments d WHERE e.department_id = d.department_id ) IN (SELECT location_id FROM locations l WHERE STATE_province = California)); 31. Write a query to delete the oldest JOB_HISTORY row of an employee by looking up the JOB_HISTORY table for the MIN(START_DATE) for the employee. Delete the records of only those employees who have changed at least two jobs. If your query executes correctly, you will get the following feedback: Hint: Use a correlated DELETE command. DELETE FROM job_history JH WHERE employee_id = (SELECT employee_id FROM employees E WHERE JH.employee_id = E.employee_id AND START_DATE = (SELECT MIN(start_date) FROM job_history JH WHERE JH.employee_id = E.employee_id) AND 3 > (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM job_history JH WHERE JH.employee_id = E.employee_id GROUP BY EMPLOYEE_ID HAVING COUNT(*) >= 2)); 32. Roll back the transaction. ROLLBACK;

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33. Write a query to display the job IDs of those jobs whose maximum salary is above half the maximum salary in the whole company. Use the WITH clause to write this query. Name the query MAX_SAL_CALC. WITH MAX_SAL_CALC AS ( SELECT job_title, MAX(salary) AS job_total FROM employees, jobs WHERE employees.job_id = jobs.job_id GROUP BY job_title) SELECT job_title, job_total FROM MAX_SAL_CALC WHERE job_total > (SELECT MAX(job_total) * 1/2 FROM MAX_SAL_CALC) ORDER BY job_total DESC; These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed hierarchical retrieval. 34. Write a SQL statement to display employee number, last name, start date, and salary, showing: a. De Haans direct reports SELECT FROM WHERE employee_id, last_name, hire_date, salary employees manager_id = (SELECT employee_id FROM employees WHERE last_name = De Haan);

b. The organization tree under De Haan (employee number 102) SELECT employee_id, last_name, hire_date, salary FROM employees WHERE employee_id != 102 CONNECT BY manager_id = PRIOR employee_id START WITH employee_id = 102; 35. Write a hierarchical query to display the employee number, manager number, and employee last name for all employees who are two levels below employee De Haan (employee number 102). Also display the level of the employee. SELECT employee_id, manager_id, level, last_name FROM employees WHERE LEVEL = 3 CONNECT BY manager_id = PRIOR employee_id START WITH employee_id= 102;

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36. Produce a hierarchical report to display employee number, manager number, the LEVEL pseudocolumn, and employee last name. For every row in the EMPLOYEES table, you should print a tree structure showing the employee, the employees manager, then the managers manager, and so on. Use indentations for the NAME column. COLUMN name FORMAT A25 SELECT employee_id, manager_id, LEVEL, LPAD(last_name, LENGTH(last_name)+(LEVEL*2)-2,_) LAST_NAME FROM employees CONNECT BY employee_id = PRIOR manager_id; COLUMN name CLEAR These exercises can be used for extra practice after you have discussed Oracle 9i extensions to DML and DDL. 37. Write a query to do the following: - Retrieve the details of the employee ID, hire date, salary, and manager ID of those employees whose employee ID is more than or equal to 200 from the EMPLOYEES table. - If the salary is less than $5,000, insert the details of employee ID and salary into the SPECIAL_SAL table. - Insert the details of employee ID, hire date, and salary into the SAL_HISTORY table. - Insert the details of employee ID, manager ID, and salary into the MGR_HISTORY table. INSERT ALL WHEN SAL < 5000 THEN INTO special_sal VALUES (EMPID, SAL) ELSE INTO sal_history VALUES(EMPID,HIREDATE,SAL) INTO mgr_history VALUES(EMPID,MGR,SAL) SELECT employee_id EMPID, hire_date HIREDATE, salary SAL, manager_id MGR FROM employees WHERE employee_id >=200; 38. Query the SPECIAL_SAL, SAL_HISTORY and the MGR_HISTORY tables to view the inserted records. SELECT * FROM special_sal; SELECT * FROM sal_history; SELECT * FROM mgr_history;

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39. Create the LOCATIONS_NAMED_INDEX table based on the following table instance chart. Name the index for the PRIMARY KEY column as LOCATIONS_PK_IDX. CREATE TABLE LOCATIONS_NAMED_INDEX (location_id NUMBER(4) PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX (CREATE INDEX locations_pk_idx ON LOCATIONS_NAMED_INDEX(location_id)), location_name VARCHAR2(20)); 40. Query the USER_INDEXES table to display the INDEX_NAME for the LOCATIONS_NAMED_INDEX table. SELECT INDEX_NAME, TABLE_NAME FROM USER_INDEXES WHERE TABLE_NAME = LOCATIONS_NAMED_INDEX;

This exercise can be used for extra practice after you have discussed writing advanced scripts. 41. Write a SQL script file to drop all objects (tables, views, indexes, sequences, synonyms, and so on) that you own. Note: The output shown is only a guideline. SET HEADING OFF ECHO OFF FEEDBACK OFF SET PAGESIZE 0

SELECT DROP || object_type || || object_name || ; FROM user_objects ORDER BY object_type / SET HEADING ON ECHO ON FEEDBACK ON SET PAGESIZE 24

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Tab l e Desc r i p t i o n s an d Dat a

COUNTRIES Table DESCRIBE countries

SELECT * FROM countries;

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DEPARTMENTS Table DESCRIBE departments

SELECT * FROM departments;

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EMPLOYEES Table DESCRIBE employees

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EMPLOYEES Table (continued) SELECT * FROM employees;

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EMPLOYEES Table (continued)

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JOBS T a b l e DESCRIBE jobs

SELECT * FROM jobs;

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JOB_GRADES Table DESCRIBE job_grades

SELECT * FROM job_grades;

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JOB_HISTORY Table DESCRIBE job_history

SELECT * FROM job_history;

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LOCATIONS Table DESCRIBE locations

SELECT * FROM locations;

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REGIONS T a b l e DESCRIBE regions

SELECT * FROM regions;

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