Mentoring Session Week 3

Pl. Ensure that “hr” database is created or downloaded from MYSQL

sample databases before getting started with this exercise.
Once MySQL workbench is launched, spend a couple of minutes in
familiarising participants with MYSQL Workbench options
Before taking this session, please ensure that participants are well aware
and familiar with basic MYSQL commands as in this session focus in on
Joins, Subquery, and Window Functions.

Section A: Joins, Sub-Queries & Window Functions

1. Execute the following basic commands to get started with the session
show databases;
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show tables;

2. Write a query in SQL to display those employees who contain a letter z to their
first name and also display their last name, department, city, and state province.
(3 rows)

SELECT e.first_name
,e.last_name
,e.department_id
,d.department_name
,l.city
,l.state_province
FROM employees e
INNER JOIN departments d ON e.department_id = d.department_id
INNER JOIN locations l ON d.location_id = l.location_id
WHERE e.first_name LIKE "%z%";

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 3. Write a query in SQL to display the job title, department id, full name (first and
last name) of employee, starting date and end date for all the jobs which started
on or after 1st January, 1993 and ending with on or before 31 August, 2000. (8
rows)
SELECT j.job_id
,e.department_id
,CONCAT (
e.first_name
,' '
,e.last_name
) full_name
,j.start_date
,j.end_date
FROM employees e
JOIN job_history j ON e.employee_id = j.employee_id
WHERE j.start_date >= '1993-01-01'
AND end_date <= '2000-08-31';

4. Display the employee number, name (first name and last name) and job title for
all employees whose salary is smaller than the minimum salary of those
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SELECT e.employee_id
,CONCAT (
e.first_name
,' '
,e.last_name
) AS Name
,j.job_title
FROM employees AS e
LEFT JOIN jobs AS j ON e.job_id = j.job_id
WHERE e.salary < (
SELECT min(salary)
FROM employees AS k
LEFT JOIN jobs AS l ON k.job_id = l.job_id
WHERE l.job_title = "Programmer"
);

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 5. Write a query in SQL to display the country name, city, and number of those
departments where at least 2 employees are working. (5 rows)

SELECT country_name
,city
,count(department_id)
FROM countries c
JOIN locations l ON c.country_id = l.country_id
JOIN departments d ON l.location_id = d.location_id
WHERE department_id IN (
SELECT department_id
FROM employees
GROUP BY department_id
HAVING COUNT(employee_id) >= 2
)
GROUP BY country_name
,city;

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6. Write a query to fetch the employee ID, First Name, Last Name, Salary and
Department ID of those employees who draw a salary more than the average
salary of their respective department. (38 rows)
SELECT employee_id
,CONCAT (
first_name
,' '
,last_name
) Name
,salary
,department_id
FROM employees o
WHERE salary > (
SELECT avg(salary)
FROM employees i
WHERE o.department_id = i.department_id
);

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 7. Write a query in SQL to display the first and last name, salary, and department
ID for those employees who earn less than the average salary, and also work at
the department where the employee Laura is working as a first name holder. (41
rows)

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE salary < (
SELECT avg(salary)
FROM employees
)
AND department_id LIKE (
SELECT department_id
FROM employees
WHERE first_name LIKE "Laura"
);

8. Using HR Schema, write a Query to find the maximum salary of the most recent
job that every employee holds.
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BX9T5ZHNQF SELECT e.employee_id
,e.first_name
,e.last_name
,j.job_title
,MAX(e.salary) AS max_salary
FROM employees e
JOIN job_history jh ON e.employee_id = jh.employee_id
JOIN jobs j ON jh.job_id = j.job_id
WHERE (
e.employee_id
,jh.start_date
) IN (
SELECT employee_id
,MAX(start_date)
FROM job_history
GROUP BY employee_id
)
GROUP BY e.employee_id
,e.first_name
,e.last_name
,j.job_title;

9. Using HR Schema, write a Query to List the old designation and new
designation of all the employees in the company where old designation is not
null. (10 rows)
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 SELECT DISTINCT e.employee_id
,e.first_name
,e.last_name
,e.job_id AS current_job
,j.job_id AS old_job
,jo.job_title AS CURRENT
FROM employees AS e
INNER JOIN job_history AS j ON e.employee_id = j.employee_id
INNER JOIN jobs AS jo ON jo.job_id = e.job_id;

10. Retrieve the employee details along with the highest salary of their department
and the difference between their salary and the highest salary:

SELECT employee_id
,first_name
,last_name
,department_id
,salary
,MAX(salary) OVER (PARTITION BY department_id) AS
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,salary - MAX(salary) OVER (PARTITION BY
department_id) AS salary_difference
FROM employees;

11. Write an SQL query to retrieve the employee details, including their ID, first
name, last name, and the average salary within a range that includes the current
employee's salary and the salaries of the preceding and succeeding employees
based on their hire dates.

SELECT employee_id
,first_name
,last_name
,salary
,AVG(salary) OVER (
ORDER BY hire_date ASC ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING
AND 1 FOLLOWING
) AS avg_salary_range
FROM employees;

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 12. Find the average salary of employees in each department, along with the
highest-paid employee details within that department. Additionally, you want to
display the department name, manager name, and location details for each
department.

SELECT d.department_name
,e1.first_name || ' ' || e1.last_name AS manager_name
,l.street_address || ', ' || l.city || ', ' ||
l.state_province || ', ' || l.country_id AS location_details
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,e2.salary AS highest_salary
,AVG(e1.salary) OVER (PARTITION BY d.department_id) AS
avg_salary
FROM departments d
JOIN employees e1 ON d.manager_id = e1.employee_id
JOIN locations l ON d.location_id = l.location_id
JOIN (
SELECT employee_id
,first_name
,last_name
,salary
,department_id
,RANK() OVER (
PARTITION BY department_id ORDER BY salary DESC
) AS rank1
FROM employees
) e2 ON e1.department_id = e2.department_id
AND e2.rank1 = 1
ORDER BY d.department_id;

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 Section B: General Queries without using any dataset

• Write a Query to display the word 'Great Learning' by removing the vowels.

SELECT regexp_replace("Great Learning", "[a,e,i,o,u]", "");

•
Write a Query to remove all the leading and trailing exclamatory marks from the
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SELECT replace('!!!!!Great Learning!!!!!!', "!", "");

• Write a Query to divide the number 100 by 3 and print the remainder after
division.

SELECT 100 mod 3;

• Display 'Great Learnings' in capital letter

SELECT upper('Great Learnings');

• Display the difference between '2020-01-21' and '2020-01-21'

SELECT datediff('2020-01-21', '2020-01-01') AS
Difference_Between_Dates;

• Display the age if the date of birth is '1999-09-08'

SELECT datediff(curdate(), '1999-09-08') / 365 AS Age;

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 • Display '1' if 2<>0 condition is true otherwise display '0'
SELECT

IF (
2 <> 0
,1
,0
);

• Display the square of 9

SELECT power(9, 2);

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