Exercise: 1 (Serge I: 2002-09-30)
Find the model number, speed and hard drive capacity for all the PCs with prices below $500.
Result set: model, speed, hd.
SELECT model, speed, hd
FROM pc
WHERE pc.price < $500;
Exercise: 2 (Serge I: 2002-09-21)
List all printer makers. Result set: maker.
SELECT DISTINCT maker
FROM product
WHERE product.type = 'printer';
Exercise: 3 (Serge I: 2002-09-30)
Find the model number, RAM and screen size of the laptops with prices over $1000.
SELECT model, ram, screen
FROM laptop
WHERE laptop.price > 1000;
Exercise: 4 (Serge I: 2002-09-21)
Find all records from the Printer table containing data about color printers.
SELECT *
FROM printer
WHERE printer.color = 'y';
Exercise: 5 (Serge I: 2002-09-30)
Find the model number, speed and hard drive capacity of PCs cheaper than $600 having a 12x or a 24x
CD drive.
SELECT model, speed, hd
FROM pc
WHERE pc.price < 600 AND (pc.cd = '12x' OR pc.cd = '24x');
Exercise: 6 (Serge I: 2002-10-28)
For each maker producing laptops with a hard drive capacity of 10 Gb or higher, find the speed of such
laptops. Result set: maker, speed.
SELECT DISTINCT product.maker, laptop.speed
FROM laptop
JOIN product ON product.model = laptop.model
WHERE laptop.hd >= 10;
Exercise: 7 (Serge I: 2002-11-02)
Get the models and prices for all commercially available products (of any type) produced by maker B.
SELECT product.model, pc.price
FROM product
JOIN pc ON pc.model = product.model
WHERE product.maker = 'B'
UNION
SELECT product.model, laptop.price
FROM product
JOIN laptop ON laptop.model = product.model
WHERE product.maker = 'B'
UNION
SELECT product.model, printer.price
FROM product
JOIN printer ON printer.model = product.model
WHERE product.maker = 'B';
Exercise: 8 (Serge I: 2003-02-03)
Find the makers producing PCs but not laptops.
SELECT DISTINCT maker
FROM Product
WHERE type = 'PC' AND
maker NOT IN (SELECT maker
FROM Product
WHERE type = 'Laptop');
Exercise: 9 (Serge I: 2002-11-02)
Find the makers of PCs with a processor speed of 450 MHz or more. Result set: maker.
SELECT DISTINCT maker
FROM product
JOIN pc ON product.model = pc.model
WHERE pc.speed >= 450;
Exercise: 10 (Serge I: 2002-09-23)
Find the printer models having the highest price. Result set: model, price.
SELECT model, price
FROM printer
WHERE price = (SELECT MAX(price)
FROM printer);
Exercise: 11 (Serge I: 2002-11-02)
Find out the average speed of PCs.
SELECT AVG(speed) FROM pc;
Exercise: 12 (Serge I: 2002-11-02)
Find out the average speed of the laptops priced over $1000.
SELECT AVG(speed)
FROM laptop
WHERE price>1000;
Exercise: 13 (Serge I: 2002-11-02)
Find out the average speed of the PCs produced by maker A.
SELECT AVG(speed)
FROM pc
JOIN product ON product.model = pc.model
WHERE maker = 'A';
Exercise: 14 (Serge I: 2002-11-05)
For the ships in the Ships table that have at least 10 guns, get the class, name, and country.
SELECT ships.class, ships.name, classes.country
FROM ships
JOIN classes ON classes.class = ships.class
WHERE numGuns >= 10;
Exercise: 15 (Serge I: 2003-02-03)
Get hard drive capacities that are identical for two or more PCs.
Result set: hd.
SELECT hd
FROM pc
GROUP BY hd
HAVING COUNT(hd)>=2;
Exercise: 16 (Serge I: 2003-02-03)
Get pairs of PC models with identical speeds and the same RAM capacity. Each resulting pair should be
displayed only once, i.e. (i, j) but not (j, i).
Result set: model with the bigger number, model with the smaller number, speed, and RAM.
SELECT p1.model, p2.model, p1.speed, p1.ram
FROM PC p1, PC p2
WHERE p1.speed = p2.speed AND p1.ram = p2.ram
GROUP BY p1.model, p2.model, p1.speed, p1.ram
HAVING p1.model > p2.model;
Exercise: 17 (Serge I: 2003-02-03)
Get the laptop models that have a speed smaller than the speed of any PC.
Result set: type, model, speed.
SELECT DISTINCT product.type, laptop.model, laptop.speed
FROM product, laptop
WHERE laptop.speed < (SELECT MIN(speed) FROM pc)
AND product.type = 'laptop';
Exercise: 18 (Serge I: 2003-02-03)
Find the makers of the cheapest color printers.
Result set: maker, price.
SELECT DISTINCT pro.maker, pri.price
FROM product pro
INNER JOIN printer pri on pro.model = pri.model
WHERE color='y' AND pri.price = (SELECT MIN(price) FROM printer WHERE color='y');
Exercise: 19 (Serge I: 2003-02-13)
For each maker having models in the Laptop table, find out the average screen size of the laptops he
produces.
Result set: maker, average screen size.
SELECT maker, AVG(screen) as Avg_screen
FROM product
JOIN laptop ON product.model = laptop.model
GROUP BY product.maker;
Exercise: 20 (Serge I: 2003-02-13)
Find the makers producing at least three distinct models of PCs.
Result set: maker, number of PC models.
SELECT DISTINCT maker, COUNT(model) AS Count_Model
FROM product
WHERE type = 'pc'
GROUP BY maker
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT model) >= 3;
Exercise: 21 (Serge I: 2003-02-13)
Find out the maximum PC price for each maker having models in the PC table. Result set: maker,
maximum price.
SELECT maker, MAX(price)
FROM product
JOIN pc ON pc.model = product.model
GROUP BY maker;
Exercise: 22 (Serge I: 2003-02-13)
For each value of PC speed that exceeds 600 MHz, find out the average price of PCs with identical
speeds.
Result set: speed, average price.
SELECT speed, AVG(price)
FROM pc
WHERE speed > 600
GROUP BY speed;
Exercise: 23 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
Get the makers producing both PCs having a speed of 750 MHz or higher and laptops with a speed of
750 MHz or higher.
Result set: maker
SELECT p1.maker FROM product p1
INNER JOIN pc p2 ON p1.model = p2.model
WHERE p2.speed >= 750
INTERSECT
SELECT p.maker FROM product p
INNER JOIN laptop l ON p.model = l.model
WHERE l.speed >= 750;
Exercise: 24 (Serge I: 2003-02-03)
List the models of any type having the highest price of all products present in the database.
SELECT DISTINCT product.model
FROM product, pc, laptop, printer
WHERE pc.price = (SELECT MAX(price) FROM pc)
AND laptop.price = (SELECT MAX(price) FROM laptop)
AND printer.price = (SELECT MAX(price) FROM printer)
AND (
(pc.price >= laptop.price AND pc.price >= printer.price
AND product.model = pc.model)
OR
(laptop.price >= pc.price AND laptop.price >= printer.price
AND product.model = laptop.model)
OR
(printer.price >= laptop.price AND printer.price >= pc.price
AND product.model = printer.model));
Exercise: 25 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
Find the printer makers also producing PCs with the lowest RAM capacity and the highest processor
speed of all PCs having the lowest RAM capacity.
Result set: maker.
WITH MAX_SPEED AS(
SELECT MAX(speed) AS 'speed'
FROM pc
WHERE ram IN (SELECT MIN(ram) FROM pc)
SELECT DISTINCT p.maker
FROM pc
INNER JOIN product p ON pc.model = p.model
WHERE speed IN (SELECT speed FROM MAX_SPEED)
AND ram IN (SELECT MIN(ram) FROM pc)
INTERSECT
SELECT maker
FROM product
WHERE type = 'Printer';
Exercise: 26 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
Find out the average price of PCs and laptops produced by maker A.
Result set: one overall average price for all items.
SELECT AVG(price) FROM (
SELECT price FROM pc WHERE model IN
(SELECT model FROM product WHERE maker='A' AND type='PC')
UNION ALL
SELECT price FROM laptop WHERE model IN
(SELECT model FROM product WHERE maker='A' AND type='Laptop')
) AS avgprice;
Exercise: 27 (Serge I: 2003-02-03)
Find out the average hard disk drive capacity of PCs produced by makers who also manufacture printers.
Result set: maker, average HDD capacity.
SELECT product.maker, AVG(pc.hd)
FROM pc
INNER JOIN product ON pc.model = product.model
WHERE product.maker IN (SELECT maker FROM product WHERE type = 'Printer')
GROUP BY maker;
Exercise: 28 (Serge I: 2012-05-04)
Using Product table, find out the number of makers who produce only one model.
SELECT COUNT(maker)
FROM (SELECT maker
FROM product
GROUP BY maker
HAVING count(model)=1) AS a;
Exercise: 29 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
Under the assumption that receipts of money (inc) and payouts (out) are registered not more than once a
day for each collection point [i.e. the primary key consists of (point, date)], write a query displaying cash
flow data (point, date, income, expense).
Use Income_o and Outcome_o tables.
SELECT i.point, i.date, i.inc, o.out
FROM Income_o i
LEFT JOIN Outcome_o o ON i.point = o.point AND i.date = o.date
UNION
SELECT o.point, o.date, i.inc, o.out
FROM outcome_o o
LEFT JOIN income_o i ON o.point = i.point AND o.date = i.date;
Exercise: 30 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
Under the assumption that receipts of money (inc) and payouts (out) can be registered any number of
times a day for each collection point [i.e. the code column is the primary key], display a table with one
corresponding row for each operating date of each collection point.
Result set: point, date, total payout per day (out), total money intake per day (inc).
Missing values are considered to be NULL.
SELECT DISTINCT point,date,SUM(out) AS out, SUM(inc) AS inc FROM (
SELECT Income.point, Income.date, out, inc
FROM Income LEFT JOIN
Outcome ON Income.point = Outcome.point AND
Income.date = Outcome.date AND Income.code= Outcome.code
UNION ALL
SELECT Outcome.point, Outcome.date, out, inc
FROM Outcome LEFT JOIN
Income ON Income.point = Outcome.point AND
Income.date = Outcome.date AND Income.code=Outcome.code) AS t1
GROUP BY point, date;
Exercise: 31 (Serge I: 2002-10-22)
For ship classes with a gun caliber of 16 in. or more, display the class and the country.
SELECT class, country
FROM classes
WHERE bore >= 16;
Exercise: 32 (Serge I: 2003-02-17)
One of the characteristics of a ship is one-half the cube of the calibre of its main guns (mw).
Determine the average ship mw with an accuracy of two decimal places for each country having ships in
the database.
SELECT country, CONVERT(NUMERIC(10, 2), AVG(POWER(bore, 3)/2)) AS weight
FROM (SELECT country, bore, name from classes c, ships s
WHERE s.class=c.class
UNION
SELECT country, bore, ship FROM classes c, outcomes o
WHERE o.ship=c.class
AND o.ship NOT IN(SELECT DISTINCT name FROM ships))x
GROUP BY country;
Exercise: 33 (Serge I: 2002-11-02)
Get the ships sunk in the North Atlantic battle.
Result set: ship.
SELECT ship
FROM Outcomes
WHERE battle = 'North Atlantic' AND result = 'sunk';
Exercise: 34 (Serge I: 2002-11-04)
In accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty concluded in the beginning of 1922, it was prohibited to
build battle ships with a displacement of more than 35 thousand tons.
Get the ships violating this treaty (only consider ships for which the year of launch is known).
List the names of the ships.
SELECT name
FROM Ships
JOIN Classes ON Classes.class = Ships.class
WHERE Classes.displacement > 35000 AND Ships.launched >= 1922 AND Classes.type = 'bb';
Exercise: 35 (qwrqwr: 2012-11-23)
Find models in the Product table consisting either of digits only or Latin letters (A-Z, case insensitive)
only.
Result set: model, type.
SELECT model, type
FROM product
WHERE model
NOT LIKE '%[^A-Z]%' OR model NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%';
Exercise: 36 (Serge I: 2003-02-17)
List the names of lead ships in the database (including the Outcomes table).
SELECT name
FROM ships
WHERE name IN (SELECT class FROM classes)
UNION
SELECT ship
FROM outcomes
WHERE ship IN (SELECT class FROM classes);
Exercise: 37 (Serge I: 2003-02-17)
Find classes for which only one ship exists in the database (including the Outcomes table).
SELECT c.class
FROM
(SELECT s.class, s.name
FROM ships s
UNION
SELECT o.ship as 'class', o.ship
FROM Outcomes o
WHERE NOT EXISTS( SELECT * FROM Ships s WHERE s.name = o.ship)) s
INNER JOIN Classes c ON c.class = s.class
GROUP by c.class
HAVING count(*) = 1;
Exercise: 38 (Serge I: 2003-02-19)
Find countries that ever had classes of both battleships (‘bb’) and cruisers (‘bc’).
SELECT country
FROM Classes
WHERE type = 'bb'
INTERSECT
SELECT country
FROM Classes
WHERE type ='bc';
Exercise: 39 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
Find the ships that `survived for future battles`; that is, after being damaged in a battle, they participated
in another one, which occurred later.
SELECT DISTINCT o.ship
FROM outcomes o
LEFT JOIN Battles b ON b.name=o.battle
WHERE o.result = 'damaged'
and EXISTS(SELECT *
FROM outcomes o2
LEFT JOIN battles b2 ON b2.name=o2.battle
WHERE o2.ship=o.ship
and b2.date > b.date);
Exercise: 40 (Serge I: 2012-04-20)
Get the makers who produce only one product type and more than one model. Output: maker, type.
SELECT DISTINCT maker, type
FROM product
WHERE maker IN
(SELECT DISTINCT maker
FROM product
GROUP BY maker
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT type) = 1
AND COUNT(model) > 1);
Exercise: 41 (Serge I: 2019-05-31)
For each maker who has models at least in one of the tables PC, Laptop, or Printer, determine the
maximum price for his products.
Output: maker; if there are NULL values among the prices for the products of a given maker, display
NULL for this maker, otherwise, the maximum price.
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Exercise: 42 (Serge I: 2002-11-05)
Find the names of ships sunk at battles, along with the names of the corresponding battles.
SELECT ship, battle
FROM outcomes
WHERE result = 'sunk';
Exercise: 43 (qwrqwr: 2011-10-28)
Get the battles that occurred in years when no ships were launched into water.
SELECT name
FROM battles
WHERE YEAR(date) NOT IN
(SELECT launched FROM ships WHERE launched IS NOT NULL);
Exercise: 44 (Serge I: 2002-12-04)
Find all ship names beginning with the letter R.
SELECT name
FROM ships
WHERE name LIKE 'R%'
UNION
SELECT ship
FROM outcomes
WHERE ship LIKE 'R%';
Exercise: 45 (Serge I: 2002-12-04)
Find all ship names consisting of three or more words (e.g., King George V).
Consider the words in ship names to be separated by single spaces, and the ship names to have no
leading or trailing spaces.
SELECT name
FROM ships
WHERE name LIKE '%% %% %%'
UNION
SELECT ship
FROM outcomes
WHERE ship LIKE '%% %% %%';
Exercise: 46 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
For each ship that participated in the Battle of Guadalcanal, get its name, displacement, and the number
of guns.
SELECT name, displacement, numGuns
FROM outcomes
JOIN (classes JOIN ships ON classes.class=ships.class) ON ship=name
WHERE battle='Guadalcanal'
UNION
SELECT ship, displacement, numGuns
FROM outcomes
LEFT JOIN classes ON ship = classes.class
WHERE battle = 'Guadalcanal'
AND ship NOT IN (SELECT name FROM ships);
Exercise: 47 (Serge I: 2019-06-07)
Find the countries that have lost all their ships in battles.
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Exercise: 48 (Serge I: 2003-02-16)
Find the ship classes having at least one ship sunk in battles.
SELECT class
FROM ships, outcomes
WHERE outcomes.ship = ships.name
AND result = 'sunk'
UNION
SELECT ship
FROM outcomes, classes
WHERE classes.class = outcomes.ship
AND result = 'sunk';
Exercise: 49 (Serge I: 2003-02-17)
Find the names of the ships having a gun caliber of 16 inches (including ships in the Outcomes table).
SELECT name
FROM ships
JOIN classes ON classes.class = ships.class
WHERE classes.bore = 16
UNION
SELECT ship
FROM outcomes, classes
WHERE outcomes.ship = classes.class
AND classes.bore = 16;
Exercise: 50 (Serge I: 2002-11-05)
Find the battles in which Kongo-class ships from the Ships table were engaged.
SELECT DISTINCT battle
FROM outcomes, ships
WHERE outcomes.ship = ships.name
AND ships.class = 'Kongo';
Exercise: 51 (Serge I: 2003-02-17)
Find the names of the ships with the largest number of guns among all ships having the same
displacement (including ships in the Outcomes table).
SELECT name
FROM (SELECT name, numGuns, displacement
FROM Ships JOIN Classes ON Classes.class=Ships.class
UNION
SELECT ship, numGuns, displacement
FROM Outcomes JOIN Classes ON ship=class) AS x
WHERE numGuns=(SELECT MAX(numGuns)
FROM(SELECT name, numGuns, displacement
FROM Ships JOIN Classes
ON Classes.class=Ships.class
UNION
SELECT ship,numGuns,displacement
FROM Outcomes JOIN Classes
ON ship=class) AS y
WHERE x.displacement=y.displacement);
Exercise: 52 (qwrqwr: 2010-04-23)
Determine the names of all ships in the Ships table that can be a Japanese battleship having at least nine
main guns with a caliber of less than 19 inches and a displacement of not more than 65 000 tons.
SELECT s.name
FROM ships s
LEFT JOIN classes c ON c.class = s.class
WHERE CASE WHEN c.numguns IS NULL THEN 9 ELSE c.numguns END > 8
AND CASE WHEN c.bore IS NULL THEN 8 ELSE c.bore END <19
AND CASE WHEN c.displacement IS NULL THEN 8 ELSE c.displacement END <= 65000
AND CASE WHEN c.type IS NULL THEN 'bb' ELSE c.type END = 'bb'
AND CASE WHEN c.country IS NULL THEN 'Japan' ELSE c.country END = 'Japan';
Exercise: 53 (Serge I: 2002-11-05)
With a precision of two decimal places, determine the average number of guns for the battleship classes.
SELECT CAST ( AVG(numGuns+0.0) AS NUMERIC(10,2) )
FROM Classes
WHERE type = 'bb';
Exercise: 54 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
With a precision of two decimal places, determine the average number of guns for all battleships
(including the ones in the Outcomes table).
SELECT CAST(AVG(CAST(all_ships.numguns AS NUMERIC(4,2))) AS NUMERIC(4,2)) avg_guns
FROM (SELECT o.ship, c.numguns
FROM outcomes o, classes c
WHERE o.ship = c.class AND c.type = 'bb'
UNION
SELECT s.name, c.numguns
FROM ships s
INNER JOIN classes c ON s.class = c.class
WHERE c.type = 'bb') all_ships;
Exercise: 55 (Serge I: 2003-02-16)
For each class, determine the year the first ship of this class was launched.
If the lead ship’s year of launch is not known, get the minimum year of launch for the ships of this class.
Result set: class, year.
SELECT classes.class, MIN(launched)
FROM classes
FULL JOIN ships ON classes.class=ships.class
GROUP BY classes.class;
Exercise: 56 (Serge I: 2003-02-16)
For each class, find out the number of ships of this class that were sunk in battles.
Result set: class, number of ships sunk.
WITH t AS (SELECT c.class
FROM outcomes o, ships s, classes c
WHERE result = 'sunk'
AND o.ship = s.name
AND s.class = c.class
UNION ALL
SELECT c.class
FROM outcomes o, classes c
WHERE result = 'sunk'
AND o.ship = c.class
AND o.ship NOT IN (SELECT name FROM ships))
SELECT t1.class, (SELECT COUNT(1) FROM t t2 WHERE t1.class = t2.class )
FROM classes t1;
Exercise: 57 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
For classes having irreparable combat losses and at least three ships in the database, display the name
of the class and the number of ships sunk.
SELECT class, COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT class, name FROM ships
UNION
SELECT ship AS class, ship AS name
FROM outcomes
WHERE ship IN (SELECT class FROM classes)) AS a
JOIN outcomes b ON name=ship
WHERE result='sunk' AND class IN
(SELECT class FROM
(SELECT class, name FROM ships
UNION
SELECT ship AS class, ship AS name
FROM outcomes
WHERE ship IN (SELECT class
FROM classes)) c
GROUP BY class
HAVING COUNT(*)>=3)
GROUP BY class;
Exercise: 58 (Serge I: 2009-11-13)
For each product type and maker in the Product table, find out, with a precision of two decimal places, the
percentage ratio of the number of models of the actual type produced by the actual maker to the total
number of models by this maker.
Result set: maker, product type, the percentage ratio mentioned above.
SELECT p1.maker, p2.type,
CAST( 100.0 *
(SELECT COUNT(1) FROM product p WHERE p.maker = p1.maker AND p.type= p2.type)
(SELECT COUNT(1) FROM product p WHERE p.maker = p1.maker)
AS NUMERIC(12, 2))
FROM product p1, product p2
GROUP BY p1.maker, p2.type;
Exercise: 59 (Serge I: 2003-02-15)
Calculate the cash balance of each buy-back center for the database with money transactions being
recorded not more than once a day.
Result set: point, balance.
SELECT point, balance-
(CASE WHEN o2 IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE o2 END)
FROM (SELECT point, SUM(inc) balance
FROM income_o
GROUP BY point) AS t1
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT point o1, SUM(out) o2
FROM outcome_o
GROUP BY point) AS t2
ON point=o1;
Exercise: 60 (Serge I: 2003-02-15)
For the database with money transactions being recorded not more than once a day, calculate the cash
balance of each buy-back center at the beginning of 4/15/2001.
Note: exclude centers not having any records before the specified date.
Result set: point, balance
SELECT point, balance-
(CASE WHEN o2 IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE o2 END)
FROM (SELECT point, SUM(inc) balance FROM income_o
WHERE date<'2001-04-15'
GROUP BY point) AS t1
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT point o1, SUM(out) o2 FROM outcome_o
WHERE date<'2001-04-15'
GROUP BY point) AS t2
ON point=o1;
Exercise: 61 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
For the database with money transactions being recorded not more than once a day, calculate the total
cash balance of all buy-back centers.
SELECT SUM(i) FROM
(SELECT point, SUM(inc) AS i FROM
income_o
GROUP BY point
UNION
SELECT point, -SUM(out) as i FROM
outcome_o
GROUP BY point
) AS t;
Exercise: 62 (Serge I: 2003-02-15)
For the database with money transactions being recorded not more than once a day, calculate the total
cash balance of all buy-back centers at the beginning of 04/15/2001.
SELECT
(SELECT SUM(in2.inc)
FROM income_o in2
WHERE date < '04/15/01')
(SELECT SUM(out2.out)
FROM outcome_o out2
WHERE date < '04/15/01');
Exercise: 63 (Serge I: 2003-04-08)
Find the names of different passengers that ever travelled more than once occupying seats with the same
number.
SELECT name FROM Passenger
WHERE ID_psg IN (SELECT ID_psg
FROM Pass_in_trip
GROUP BY place, ID_psg
HAVING COUNT(*)>1);
Exercise: 64 (Serge I: 2010-06-04)
Using the Income and Outcome tables, determine for each buy-back center the days when it received
funds but made no payments, and vice versa.
Result set: point, date, type of operation (inc/out), sum of money per day.
SELECT point, date, 'inc' type, SUM(inc) sum
FROM income i
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM outcome o WHERE i.point = o.point AND i.date = o.date)
GROUP BY point, date
UNION
SELECT point, date, 'out' type, SUM(out) sum
FROM outcome o
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM income i WHERE i.point = o.point AND i.date = o.date)
GROUP BY point, date;
Exercise: 65 (Serge I: 2009-08-24)
Number the unique pairs {maker, type} in the Product table, ordering them as follows:
- maker name in ascending order;
- type of product (type) in the order PC, Laptop, Printer.
If a manufacturer produces more than one type of product, its name should be displayed in the first row
only;
other rows for THIS manufacturer should contain an empty string (').
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY maker,
CASE
WHEN type LIKE 'pc' THEN 1
WHEN type LIKE 'laptop' THEN 2
ELSE 3
END) AS num,
CASE
WHEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY maker ORDER BY maker) <> 1
THEN ''
ELSE maker
END AS maker , type
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT maker, type FROM product) as q;
Exercise: 66 (Serge I: 2003-04-09)
For all days between 2003-04-01 and 2003-04-07 find the number of trips from Rostov.
Result set: date, number of trips.
WITH t1 AS (
SELECT '2003-04-01 00:00:00.000' date UNION
SELECT '2003-04-02 00:00:00.000' date UNION
SELECT '2003-04-03 00:00:00.000' date UNION
SELECT '2003-04-04 00:00:00.000' date UNION
SELECT '2003-04-05 00:00:00.000' date UNION
SELECT '2003-04-06 00:00:00.000' date UNION
SELECT '2003-04-07 00:00:00.000' date
SELECT tt.date, (SELECT COUNT(1) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT t.trip_no
FROM pass_in_trip pip, trip t
WHERE pip.trip_no = t.trip_no
AND t.town_from = 'rostov'
AND tt.date = pip.date) trips )
FROM t1 tt;
Exercise: 67 (Serge I: 2010-03-27)
Find out the number of routes with the greatest number of flights (trips).
Notes.
1) A - B and B - A are to be considered DIFFERENT routes.
2) Use the Trip table only.
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT TOP 1 WITH TIES COUNT(*) c, town_from, town_to
FROM trip
GROUP BY town_from, town_to
ORDER BY c DESC) AS t;
Exercise: 68 (Serge I: 2010-03-27)
Find out the number of routes with the greatest number of flights (trips).
Notes.
1) A - B and B - A are to be considered the SAME route.
2) Use the Trip table only.
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT TOP 1 WITH TIES SUM(c) cc, c1, c2
FROM (SELECT COUNT(*) c, town_from c1, town_to c2
FROM trip
WHERE town_from>=town_to
GROUP BY town_from, town_to
UNION ALL
SELECT COUNT(*) c,town_to, town_from FROM trip
WHERE town_to>town_from
GROUP BY town_from, town_to
) AS t
GROUP BY c1,c2
ORDER BY cc DESC
) AS tt;
Exercise: 69 (Serge I: 2011-01-06)
Using the Income and Outcome tables, find out the balance for each buy-back center by the end of each
day when funds were received or payments were made.
Note that the cash isn’t withdrawn, and the unspent balance/debt is carried forward to the next day.
Result set: buy-back center ID (point), date in dd/mm/yyyy format, unspent balance/debt by the end of
this day.
WITH base_set AS (SELECT point, date, inc FROM income
UNION ALL
SELECT point, date, -out FROM outcome
SELECT DISTINCT bs.point, CONVERT(varchar(10), bs.date, 103) day,
(SELECT SUM(inc) FROM base_set WHERE date <= bs.date AND point = bs.point) rem
FROM base_set bs;
Exercise: 70 (Serge I: 2003-02-14)
Get the battles in which at least three ships from the same country took part.
SELECT DISTINCT o.battle
FROM outcomes o
LEFT JOIN ships s ON s.name = o.ship
LEFT JOIN classes c ON o.ship = c.class OR s.class = c.class
WHERE c.country IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY c.country, o.battle
HAVING COUNT(o.ship) >= 3;
Exercise: 71 (Serge I: 2008-02-23)
Find the PC makers with all personal computer models produced by them being present in the PC table.
SELECT p.maker
FROM product p
LEFT JOIN pc ON pc.model = p.model
WHERE p.type = 'PC'
GROUP BY p.maker
HAVING COUNT(p.model) = COUNT(pc.model);
Exercise: 72 (Serge I: 2003-04-29)
Among the customers using a single airline, find distinct passengers who have flown most frequently.
Result set: passenger name, number of trips.
SELECT TOP 1 WITH TIES name, trip_Qty FROM passenger
JOIN
(SELECT c1, MAX(trip_Qty) trip_Qty FROM
(SELECT pass_in_trip.ID_psg c1, Trip.ID_comp c2, COUNT(*) trip_Qty FROM pass_in_trip
JOIN trip ON trip.trip_no=pass_in_trip.trip_no
GROUP BY pass_in_trip.ID_psg, Trip.ID_comp
) AS t
GROUP BY c1
HAVING COUNT(*)=1) AS tt
ON ID_psg=c1
ORDER BY trip_Qty DESC;
Exercise: 73 (Serge I: 2009-04-17)
For each country, determine the battles in which the ships of this country did not participate.
Result set: country, battle.
WITH t1 AS (SELECT c.country, o.battle
FROM classes c, outcomes o
WHERE c.class = o.ship
UNION
SELECT c.country, o.battle
FROM classes c, ships s, outcomes o
WHERE c.class = s.class AND s.name = o.ship
SELECT DISTINCT country, b.name
FROM classes c, battles b
WHERE
(SELECT COUNT(1)
FROM t1
WHERE t1.country = c.country
AND t1.battle = b.name) = 0;
Exercise: 83 (dorin_larsen: 2006-03-14)
Find out the names of the ships in the Ships table that meet at least four criteria from the following list:
numGuns = 8,
bore = 15,
displacement = 32000,
type = bb,
launched = 1915,
class = Kongo,
country = USA.
SELECT t.name
FROM
(SELECT s.name,
CASE WHEN c.numGuns = 8 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS c1,
CASE WHEN c.bore = 15 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS c2,
CASE WHEN c.displacement = 32000 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS c3,
CASE WHEN c.type = 'bb' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS c4,
CASE WHEN s.launched = 1915 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS c5,
CASE WHEN c.class = 'Kongo' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS c6,
CASE WHEN c.country = 'USA' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS c7
FROM ships s INNER JOIN classes c ON s.class = c.class
)t
WHERE (t.c1 + t.c2 + t.c3 + t.c4 + t.c5 + t.c6 + t.c7) >= 4;
Exercise: 92 (ZrenBy: 2003-09-01)
Get all white squares that have been painted only with spray cans empty at present.
Output the square names.
SELECT Q_NAME
FROM utQ
WHERE Q_ID IN (SELECT DISTINCT B.B_Q_ID
FROM (SELECT B_Q_ID
FROM utB
GROUP BY B_Q_ID
HAVING SUM(B_VOL) = 765) AS B
WHERE B.B_Q_ID NOT IN (SELECT B_Q_ID
FROM utB
WHERE B_V_ID IN (SELECT B_V_ID
FROM utB
GROUP BY B_V_ID
HAVING SUM(B_VOL) < 255)));
Exercise: 96 (ZrenBy: 2003-09-01)
Considering only red spray cans used more than once, get those that painted squares currently having a
non-zero blue component.
Result set: spray can name.
SELECT v2.v_name
FROM utv v, utb b, utq q, utb b2, utv v2
WHERE v.v_color = 'b' AND
b.b_q_id = q.q_id AND
b.b_v_id = v.v_id AND
b2.b_q_id = q.q_id AND
v2.v_id = b2.b_v_id
GROUP BY v2.v_name
INTERSECT
SELECT v.v_name
FROM utv v, utb b
WHERE v.v_id = b.b_v_id AND
v.v_color = 'r'
GROUP BY v.v_name
HAVING COUNT(1) > 1;
Exercise: 110 (Serge I: 2003-12-24)
Find out the names of different passengers who ever travelled on a flight that took off on Saturday and
landed on Sunday.
SELECT name
FROM passenger
WHERE id_psg IN (SELECT id_psg
FROM pass_in_trip pit
JOIN trip t ON pit.trip_no = t.trip_no
WHERE time_in < time_out AND datepart(dw, date) = 7);
Exercise: 113 (Serge I: 2003-12-24)
How much paint of each color is needed to dye all squares white?
Result set: amount of each paint in order (R,G,B).
SELECT
- (SELECT SUM(b_vol)
FROM utb b
WHERE b.b_v_id IN (SELECT v_id FROM utv v WHERE v.v_color = 'R'))
+ (SELECT SUM(255) FROM utq) red,
- (SELECT SUM(b_vol)
FROM utb b
WHERE b.b_v_id IN (SELECT v_id FROM utv v WHERE v.v_color = 'g'))
+ (SELECT SUM(255) FROM utq) green,
- (SELECT SUM(b_vol)
FROM utb b
WHERE b.b_v_id IN (SELECT v_id FROM utv v WHERE v.v_color = 'b'))
+ (SELECT SUM(255) FROM utq) blue;
