07/08/2024, 10:44 Mock SQL Quiz (Not for grading)

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Question 1

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Show the last name of all employees who have male dependents order by last name.

+---------+
| lname |
+---------+
| Smith |
| Wallace |
| Wong |
+---------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select distinct lname from employee join dependent where employee.ssn=dependent.essn order by lname; 

The correct answer is: select distinct lname from employee,dependent where ssn=essn and dependent.sex='M' order by lname.

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Question 2
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Find the total number of project hours for the Research department. Sort result set by project number.

sample output:

+------------+-----+
| sum(hours) | pno |
+------------+-----+
| 52.50 | 1 |
| 37.50 | 2 |
| 50.00 | 3 |
+------------+-----+
3 rows in set (0.03 sec)

Answer: select sum(hours),pno from works_on where pno in (1,2,3) group by pno; 

The correct answer is: select sum(hours),pno from works_on where pno in (select pnumber from project where dnum=(select dnumber from
department where dname='Research')) group by pno order by pno.

Question 3

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Display the age of all employees ordered by increasing age.

Hint: Use function current_date() to get today's date and function year() to extract the YEAR component from a date
sample output:

+------+
| age |
+------+
| 50 |
| 53 |
| 54 |
| 57 |
| 60 |
| 67 |
| 81 |
| 85 |
+------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: 

The correct answer is: select year(current_date)-year(bdate) as age from employee order by age asc.

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Question 4
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Select ssn of employees whose average project hours is at least 10 hours and sort the results by ssn.

sample output:
+-----------+------------+
| essn | sum(hours) |
+-----------+------------+
| 123456789 | 40.00 |
| 333445555 | 40.00 |
| 453453453 | 40.00 |
| 666884444 | 40.00 |
| 987654321 | 35.00 |
| 987987987 | 40.00 |
| 999887777 | 40.00 |
+-----------+------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select essn,sum(hours) from works_on group by essn having sum(hours)>=10 order by essn; 

The correct answer is: select essn, sum(hours) from works_on group by essn having sum(hours) >= 10 order by essn;.

Question 5

Not answered

Marked out of 1.00

List of employees whose salary is greater than their department average

and sort the result by the fname.

sample output:
+----------+

| fname |

+----------+

| Franklin |
| Jennifer |

| Ramesh |

+----------+

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: 

The correct answer is: select fname from employee e1 where salary > (select avg(salary) from employee e2 where e1.dno = e2.dno) order by
fname;.

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Question 6
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Select Employees fname with having letter 's' anywhere in their First name arrange results set by the first name.

sample output:
+--------+
| fname |
+--------+
| James |
| Ramesh |
+--------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select fname from employee where fname like '%s%' order by fname; 

The correct answer is: select fname from employee where fname like '%s%' order by fname.

Question 7

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Find employees fname, lname, salary having a salary of at least 25000 and arrange the resultset by the last name.
sample output :

+----------+---------+----------+
| fname | lname | salary |
+----------+---------+----------+
| James | Borg | 55000.00 |
| Joyce | English | 25000.00 |
| Ahmad | Jabbar | 25000.00 |
| Ramesh | Narayan | 38000.00 |
| John | Smith | 30000.00 |
| Jennifer | Wallace | 43000.00 |
| Franklin | Wong | 40000.00 |
| Alicia | Zelaya | 25000.00 |
+----------+---------+----------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select fname,lname,salary from employee where salary>=25000 order by lname; 

The correct answer is: select fname, lname, salary from employee where salary>=25000 order by lname.

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Question 8
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Find different unique project locations alphabetically.

sample output:

+-----------+

| plocation |
+-----------+

| Bellaire |

| Houston |

| Stafford |

| Sugarland |

+-----------+

Answer: select distinct Plocation from project order by Plocation; 

The correct answer is: select distinct plocation from project order by plocation;.

Question 9

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Find the male employees who were born after 1950, arrange the resultset based on salary.
sample output:

+----------+-------+---------+-----------+------------+--------------------------+------+----------+-----------+------+
| fname | minit | lname | ssn | bdate | address | sex | salary | super_ssn | dno |
+----------+-------+---------+-----------+------------+--------------------------+------+----------+-----------+------+
| Ahmad | V | Jabbar | 987987987 | 1969-01-09 | 980 Fondren, Houston, TX | M | 25000.00 | 987654321 | 4 |
| John | B | Smith | 123456789 | 1965-01-09 | 731 Fondren, Houston, TX | M | 30000.00 | 333445555 | 5 |
| Ramesh | K | Narayan | 666884444 | 1962-01-09 | 975 Fondren, Houston, TX | M | 38000.00 | 333445555 | 5 |
| Franklin | T | Wong | 333445555 | 1955-01-09 | 638 Fondren, Houston, TX | M | 40000.00 | 888665555 | 5 |
+----------+-------+---------+-----------+------------+--------------------------+------+----------+-----------+------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select * from employee where sex='M' and Bdate>='1950-01-01' order by salary; 

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Question 10
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Find employees fname, lname, bdate salary having no manager or having salaries less than 30000 arrange resultset by the youngest
employee to the oldest.

sample output:

+--------+---------+------------+----------+
| fname | lname | bdate | salary |
+--------+---------+------------+----------+
| Joyce | English | 1972-01-09 | 25000.00 |
| Ahmad | Jabbar | 1969-01-09 | 25000.00 |
| Alicia | Zelaya | 1968-01-09 | 25000.00 |
| James | Borg | 1937-01-09 | 55000.00 |
+--------+---------+------------+----------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select fname,lname,bdate,salary from employee where (salary<30000 or super_ssn is NULL) order by bdate desc; 

The correct answer is: select fname, lname, bdate, salary from employee where salary<30000 or super_ssn IS NULL order by bdate desc;.

Question 11

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Find all the female employees having salary within the range of 30000 and 50000 arrange result by department number. (without using
operators like <,>)

sample output:

+----------+-------+---------+-----------+------------+-------------------------+------+----------+-----------+------+
| fname | minit | lname | ssn | bdate | address | sex | salary | super_ssn | dno |
+----------+-------+---------+-----------+------------+-------------------------+------+----------+-----------+------+
| Jennifer | S | Wallace | 987654321 | 1941-01-09 | 21 Fondren, Houston, TX | F | 43000.00 | 888665555 | 4 |
+----------+-------+---------+-----------+------------+-------------------------+------+----------+-----------+------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select * from employee where (sex='F' and salary between 30000 and 50000) order by dno; 

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Question 12
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Find employees fname not having any dependents arrange results by the first name.

sample output:

+--------+
| fname |
+--------+
| Ahmad |
| Alicia |
| James |
| Joyce |
| Ramesh |
+--------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select fname from employee where employee.ssn not in (select dependent.essn from dependent) order by fname

The correct answer is: select fname from employee where ssn NOT IN ( select distinct essn from dependent) order by fname;.

Question 13

Correct

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Find minimum salary under the Research department.

+-------------+

| min(salary) |
+-------------+

| 25000 |

+-------------+

1 row in set (0.13 sec)

Answer: select min(salary) from employee group by Dno having Dno='5'; 

The correct answer is: select min(salary) from employee where dno=(select dnumber from department where dname='Research').

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Question 14
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Display first name of all employees. Use 'First' as the column alias.Arrange result set by first name.

+----------+

| First |

+----------+
| Ahmad |

| Alicia |

| Franklin |

| James |

| Jennifer |

| John |

| Joyce |

| Ramesh |

+----------+

8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: select fname as 'First' from employee order by fname; 

The correct answer is: select fname 'First' from employee order by fname;.

Question 15

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Show the sum of salaries of all the male employees and all the female employees ordered by sex.
+------+-------------+

| sex | sum(salary) |

+------+-------------+

|F | 136000 |

|M | 150000 |

+------+-------------+

Answer: select sex,sum(salary) from employee group by sex order by sex; 

The correct answer is: select sex,sum(salary) from employee group by sex order by sex.

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Question 16
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Show the count of employees who belong to department 5.

+----------+

| count(*) |

+----------+

| 4|

+----------+

Answer: select count(*) from employee where dno='5'; 

Question 17

Not answered

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Show the ssn and total number of hours worked on projects for all employees order by ssn.

Hint: Note that even if SSN is not working in any project, it is there in the output with NULL value

-----------+------------+
| ssn | sum(hours) |
+-----------+------------+
| 123456789 | 40.00 |
| 333445555 | 40.00 |
| 453453453 | 40.00 |
| 666884444 | 40.00 |
| 888665555 | NULL |
| 987654321 | 35.00 |
| 987987987 | 40.00 |
| 999887777 | 40.00 |
+-----------+------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: 

The correct answer is: select ssn,sum(hours) from employee e left join works_on w on e.ssn = w.essn group by ssn order by ssn.

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Question 18
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Show the minimum salary of employees in the Administration department

+-------------+

| min(salary) |

+-------------+

| 25000 |

+-------------+

Answer: select min(salary) from employee where dno='4'; 

The correct answer is: select min(salary) from employee where dno=(select dnumber from department where dname = 'Administration').

Question 19

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Show the department id and count of employees in each department who have a salary > 30000 order by dno.

+------+------------+

| dno | count(ssn) |

+------+------------+

| 1| 1|

| 4| 1|

| 5| 2|

+------+------------+

Answer: select dno,count(ssn) from employee where salary>30000 group by dno order by dno; 

The correct answer is: select dno,count(ssn) from employee where salary > 30000 group by dno order by dno.

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Question 20
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Show the ssn of employees who have more than 1 dependent order by ssn

+-----------+

| essn |

+-----------+

| 123456789 |

| 333445555 |

+-----------+

Answer: select essn from dependent group by essn having count(essn)>1 order by essn; 

The correct answer is: select essn from dependent group by essn having count(essn)>1 order by essn.

Question 21

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Show the ssn and number of projects worked on by each employee for employees working on more than one project order by ssn

+-----------+------------+

| essn | count(pno) |

+-----------+------------+

| 123456789 | 2|

| 333445555 | 4|

| 453453453 | 2|
| 987654321 | 2|

| 987987987 | 2|

| 999887777 | 2|

+-----------+------------+

Answer: select essn,count(Pno) from works_on group by essn having count(Pno)>1 order by essn; 

The correct answer is: select essn,count(pno) from works_on group by essn having count(pno) > 1 order by essn.

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Question 22
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Show ssn,first name and department name they belong to for all employees order by ssn

+-----------+----------+----------------+

| ssn | fname | dname |

+-----------+----------+----------------+

| 123456789 | John | Research |

| 333445555 | Fanklin | Research |

| 453453453 | Joyce | Research |

| 666884444 | Ramesh | Research |

| 888665555 | James | Headquarters |

| 987654321 | Jennifer | Administration |

| 987987987 | Ahmad | Administration |

| 999887777 | Alicia | Administration |

+-----------+----------+----------------+

Answer: select employee.ssn,employee.fname,department.dname from employee join department on employee.Dno=dep

The correct answer is: select ssn,fname,dname from employee,department where dno=dnumber order by ssn.

Question 23

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Show ssn and first name of all employees whose departments are based at Houston order by ssn

+-----------+---------+

| ssn | fname |

+-----------+---------+

| 123456789 | John |

| 333445555 | Fanklin |

| 453453453 | Joyce |

| 666884444 | Ramesh |

| 888665555 | James |

+-----------+---------+

Answer: select ssn,fname from employee where dno in (1,5) order by ssn; 

The correct answer is: select ssn,fname from employee,dept_locations where dno=dnumber and dlocation = 'Houston' order by ssn.

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Question 24
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Show the last name of all employees who have female dependents order by last name.

+-------+
| lname |
+-------+
| Wong |
+-------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

Answer: select distinct lname from employee join dependent on employee.ssn=dependent.essn where dependent.sex='F 

The correct answer is: select lname from employee where ssn in (select essn from dependent where sex = 'F') order by lname;.

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