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1. Consider the following friends table as the source
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Here ram and vamsi are friends of sam; ram and jhon are friends of vamsi and so on. Now write
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a query to find friends of friends of sam. For sam; ram,jhon,vijay and anand are friends of
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sam, ram
sam, jhon
sam, vijay
sam, anand

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SELECT f1.name,
f2.friend_name as friend_of_friend
FROM friends f1,
friends f2
WHERE f1.name = 'sam'
AND f1.friend_name = f2.name;

2. This is an extension to the problem 1. In the output, you can see ram is displayed as friends of
friends. This is because, ram is mutual friend of sam and vamsi. Now extend the above query to
exclude mutual friends. The outuput should look as
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Name, Friend_of_Friend
----------------------
sam, jhon
sam, vijay
sam, anand

Solution:

SELECT f1.name,
f2.friend_name as friend_of_friend
FROM friends f1,
friends f2
WHERE f1.name = 'sam'
AND f1.friend_name = f2.name
AND NOT EXISTS
(SELECT 1 FROM friends f3

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WHERE f3.name = f1.name

AND f3.friend_name = f2.friend_name);

3. Write a query to get the top 5 products based on the quantity sold without using the
row_number analytical function? The source data looks as

Products, quantity_sold, year

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A, 200, 2009
B, 155, 2009
C, 455, 2009
D, 620, 2009
E, 135, 2009
F, 390, 2009
G, 999, 2010
H, 810, 2010
I, 910, 2010
J, 109, 2010
L, 260, 2010
M, 580, 2010

Solution:

SELECT products,
quantity_sold,
year
FROM
(
SELECT products,
quantity_sold,
year,
rownum r
from t
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ORDER BY quantity_sold DESC

)A
WHERE r <= 5;

4. This is an extension to the problem 3. Write a query to produce the same output using
row_number analytical function?

Solution:

SELECT products,
quantity_sold,
year
FROM
(
SELECT products,
quantity_sold,
year,
row_number() OVER(
ORDER BY quantity_sold DESC) r
from t
)A
WHERE r <= 5;

5. This is an extension to the problem 3. write a query to get the top 5 products in each year
based on the quantity sold?

Solution:

SELECT products,
quantity_sold,
year
FROM
(
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SELECT products,
quantity_sold,
year,
row_number() OVER(
PARTITION BY year
ORDER BY quantity_sold DESC) r
from t
)A
WHERE r <= 5;

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