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SQL Questions

This document contains a series of SQL queries and questions related to practicing and exploring the sakila database schema. It includes queries to select, update, alter and join data from various tables like actor, film, category, payment and more. More complex queries use subqueries, aggregation, views and dropping views. The goal is to gain experience with different SQL clauses, functions and joining multiple tables.
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SQL Questions

This document contains a series of SQL queries and questions related to practicing and exploring the sakila database schema. It includes queries to select, update, alter and join data from various tables like actor, film, category, payment and more. More complex queries use subqueries, aggregation, views and dropping views. The goal is to gain experience with different SQL clauses, functions and joining multiple tables.
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BUS 509 BUSINESS ANALYTICS (SQL Queries practice sheet)

INSTRUCTOR: Ahmed Imran Kabir

-- Question 1a

USE sakila;

SELECT first_name, last_name FROM actor;

-- Question 1b

USE sakila;

SELECT concat(first_name," ", last_name) AS Actor_Name


FROM actor;

-- Question 2a

USE saklia;

SELECT actor_id, first_name, last_name


FROM actor
WHERE first_name = 'Joe';

-- Question 2b

USE sakila;

SELECT last_name
FROM actor
WHERE last_name LIKE '%GEN%';

-- Question 2c

USE Sakila;

SELECT last_name, first_name


FROM actor
WHERE last_name LIKE '%LI%'
ORDER BY last_name, first_name;

-- Question 2d

USE Sakila;

SELECT country_id, country


FROM country
WHERE country IN ('Afghanistan', 'Bangladesh', 'China');

-- Question 3a
USE Sakila;

ALTER TABLE actor


ADD COLUMN middle_name VARCHAR(45);

-- Question 3b

ALTER TABLE actor


MODIFY middle_name BLOB;
-- Question 3c
ALTER TABLE actor
DROP COLUMN middle_name;

-- 4a. List the last names of actors, as well as how many actors have that last name.
SELECT last_name, COUNT(last_name) as "Count of Last Name"
FROM actor
GROUP BY last_name;

-- 4b. List last names of actors and the number of actors who have that last name, but only
for names
-- that are shared by at least two actors
SELECT last_name, COUNT(last_name) as "Count of Last Name"
FROM actor
GROUP BY last_name
HAVING COUNT(last_name) >=2;

-- 4c. Oh, no! The actor HARPO WILLIAMS was accidentally entered in the actor table as
-- GROUCHO WILLIAMS, the name of Harpo's second cousin's husband's yoga teacher.
-- Write a query to fix the record.

UPDATE actor
SET first_name = 'Harpo'
WHERE first_name = 'GROUCHO' AND last_name = 'WILLIAMS';

-- 4d. Perhaps we were too hasty in changing GROUCHO to HARPO. It turns out that
-- GROUCHO was the correct name after all! In a single query, if the first name of the actor
is currently
-- HARPO, change it to GROUCHO. Otherwise, change the first name to MUCHO GROUCHO, as that
-- is exactly what the actor will be with the grievous error. BE CAREFUL NOT TO CHANGE THE
FIRST NAME
-- OF EVERY ACTOR TO MUCHO GROUCHO, HOWEVER! (Hint: update the record using a unique
identifier.)--
UPDATE actor
SET first_name =
CASE
WHEN first_name = 'HARPO'
THEN 'GROUCHO'
ELSE 'MUCHO GROUCHO'
END
WHERE actor_id = 172;

-- 5a. You cannot locate the schema of the address table. Which query would you use to re-
create it?

SHOW CREATE TABLE sakila.address;

-- CREATE TABLE `address` (


-- `address_id` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
-- `address` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
-- `address2` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
-- `district` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
-- `city_id` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL,
-- `postal_code` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
-- `phone` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
-- `location` geometry NOT NULL,
-- `last_update` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
-- PRIMARY KEY (`address_id`),
-- KEY `idx_fk_city_id` (`city_id`),
-- SPATIAL KEY `idx_location` (`location`),
-- CONSTRAINT `fk_address_city` FOREIGN KEY (`city_id`) REFERENCES `city` (`city_id`) ON
UPDATE CASCADE
-- ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=606 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8

-- 6a. Use JOIN to display the first and last names, as well as the address, of each staff
member. Use the
-- tables staff and address:

SELECT first_name, last_name, address


FROM staff s
INNER JOIN address a
ON s.address_id = a.address_id;

-- 6b. Use JOIN to display the total amount rung up by each staff member in August of 2005.
Use tables
-- staff and payment.
SELECT first_name, last_name, SUM(amount)
FROM staff s
INNER JOIN payment p
ON s.staff_id = p.staff_id
GROUP BY p.staff_id
ORDER BY last_name ASC;

-- 6c. List each film and the number of actors who are listed for that film. Use tables
film_actor and film.
-- Use inner join.

SELECT title, COUNT(actor_id)


FROM film f
INNER JOIN film_actor fa
ON f.film_id = fa.film_id
GROUP BY title;

-- 6d How many copies of the film Hunchback Impossible exist in the inventory system?

SELECT title, COUNT(inventory_id)


FROM film f
INNER JOIN inventory i
ON f.film_id = i.film_id
WHERE title = "Hunchback Impossible";

-- 6e. Using the tables payment and customer and the JOIN command, list the total paid by each
customer. List the customers alphabetically
-- by last name:

SELECT last_name, first_name, SUM(amount)


FROM payment p
INNER JOIN customer c
ON p.customer_id = c.customer_id
GROUP BY p.customer_id
ORDER BY last_name ASC;

-- 7a. The music of Queen and Kris Kristofferson have seen an unlikely resurgence. As an
unintended consequence, films starting
-- with the letters K and Q have also soared in popularity. Use subqueries to display the
titles of movies starting with the letters K and Q whose
-- language is English.
USE Sakila;

SELECT title FROM film


WHERE language_id in
(SELECT language_id
FROM language
WHERE name = "English" )
AND (title LIKE "K%") OR (title LIKE "Q%");

-- 7b. Use subqueries to display all actors who appear in the film Alone Trip.

USE Sakila;

SELECT last_name, first_name


FROM actor
WHERE actor_id in
(SELECT actor_id FROM film_actor
WHERE film_id in
(SELECT film_id FROM film
WHERE title = "Alone Trip"));

-- 7c. You want to run an email marketing campaign in Canada, for which you will need the
names and email addresses of all Canadian customers.
-- Use joins to retrieve this information.

USE Sakila;

SELECT country, last_name, first_name, email


FROM country c
LEFT JOIN customer cu
ON c.country_id = cu.customer_id
WHERE country = 'Canada';

-- 7d. Sales have been lagging among young families, and you wish to target all family movies
for a promotion. Identify all movies
-- categorized as family films.

USE Sakila;

SELECT title, category


FROM film_list
WHERE category = 'Family';

-- 7e. Display the most frequently rented movies in descending order.

USE Sakila;

SELECT i.film_id, f.title, COUNT(r.inventory_id)


FROM inventory i
INNER JOIN rental r
ON i.inventory_id = r.inventory_id
INNER JOIN film_text f
ON i.film_id = f.film_id
GROUP BY r.inventory_id
ORDER BY COUNT(r.inventory_id) DESC;

-- 7f. Write a query to display how much business, in dollars, each store brought in.

SELECT store.store_id, SUM(amount)


FROM store
INNER JOIN staff
ON store.store_id = staff.store_id
INNER JOIN payment p
ON p.staff_id = staff.staff_id
GROUP BY store.store_id
ORDER BY SUM(amount);

-- 7g. Write a query to display for each store its store ID, city, and country.

USE Sakila;

SELECT s.store_id, city, country


FROM store s
INNER JOIN customer cu
ON s.store_id = cu.store_id
INNER JOIN staff st
ON s.store_id = st.store_id
INNER JOIN address a
ON cu.address_id = a.address_id
INNER JOIN city ci
ON a.city_id = ci.city_id
INNER JOIN country coun
ON ci.country_id = coun.country_id;
WHERE country = 'CANADA' AND country = 'AUSTRAILA';

-- 7h. List the top five genres in gross revenue in descending order. (Hint: you may need to
use the following
-- tables: category, film_category, inventory, payment, and rental.)

USE Sakila;

SELECT name, SUM(p.amount)


FROM category c
INNER JOIN film_category fc
INNER JOIN inventory i
ON i.film_id = fc.film_id
INNER JOIN rental r
ON r.inventory_id = i.inventory_id
INNER JOIN payment p
GROUP BY name
LIMIT 5;

-- 8a. In your new role as an executive, you would like to have an easy way of
-- viewing the top five genres by gross revenue. Use the solution from the
-- problem above to create a view. If you haven't solved 7h, you can substitute
-- another query to create a view.

USE Sakila;

CREATE VIEW top_five_grossing_genres AS

SELECT name, SUM(p.amount)


FROM category c
INNER JOIN film_category fc
INNER JOIN inventory i
ON i.film_id = fc.film_id
INNER JOIN rental r
ON r.inventory_id = i.inventory_id
INNER JOIN payment p
GROUP BY name
LIMIT 5;
-- 8b. How would you display the view that you created in 8a?

SELECT * FROM top_five_grossing_genres;

-- 8c. You find that you no longer need the view top_five_genres.
-- Write a query to delete it.

DROP VIEW top_five_grossing_genres;

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