Exercises with Solutions - SQL
Q.1. Find the names of all instructors in the "Comp. Sci" department who have salary greater
than $70,000.
Ans: select name
from instructor
where dept_name='Comp. Sci.' and salary>70000;
Q.2. Retrieve the names of all instructors, along with their department names and department
building names.
Ans: select name, department.dept_name, building
from instructor, department
where instructor.dept_name = department.dept_name;
// OR natural join
Q.3. "Find the instructor names and the course_ids of all courses taught by the instructors of the
'Comp. Sci.' department."
Ans: select name, course_id
from instructor, teaches
where instructor.ID = teaches.ID and instructor.dept_name='Comp. Sci.';
Or,
select name, course_id
from instructor natural join teaches
where instructor.dept_name='Comp. Sci.';
Q.4. "List the names of all instructors along with the titles of the courses that they teach."
Ans: select name, title
from (instructor natural join teaches) join course
using (course_id);
NOTE: the following query would be incorrect:-
select name, title
from instructor natural join teaches natural join course;
Q.5. "Find the names of all instructors whose salary is greater than at least one instructor in the
'Biology' department."
1
Ans: select distinct T.name
from instructor T, instructor S
where T.salary>S.salary and S.dept_name='Biology';
Q.6. "List the course_ids of all the courses taught in the Fall 2017 semester but not in the Spring
2018 semester".
Ans: select course_id
from section
where semester = 'Fall' and year = '2017'
minus
select course_id
from section
where semester = 'Spring' and year = '2018';
Q.7. "Find the total no. of instructors who teach a course in the Spring 2018 semester".
Ans: select count(distinct ID)
from teaches
where semester = 'Spring' and year = '2018';
Q.8. "Find the number of instructors in each department who teach a course in the Spring 2018
semester."
Ans: select dept_name, count(distinct ID) as instr_count
from instructor natural join teaches
where semester = 'Spring' and year = '2018'
group by dept_name;
Q.9. "For each course section offered in 2017, find the average total credits (tot_cred) of all
students enrolled in the section, if the section has at least 2 students."
Ans: select course_id, semester, year, sec_id, avg(tot_cred)
from takes natural join student
where year = '2017'
group by course_id, semester, year, sec_id
having count(ID) >=2;
Q.10. "Find the departments that have the highest average salary."
Ans: select dept_name
from instructor
group by dept_name
2
having avg(salary) >= all(select avg(salary)
from instructor
group by dept_name);
Q.11. "Find the average instructor-salaries of those departments where the average salary is
greater than 42,000."
Ans: select dept_name, avg_salary
from (select dept_name, avg(salary) as avg_salary
from instructor
group by dept_name)
where avg_salary > 42000;
Q.12. "Delete all tuples from the instructor relation for those instructors associated with a
department located in the 'Watson' building."
Ans: delete from instructor
where dept_name in (select dept_name
from department
where building='Watson');
Q.13. "Suppose that we want to convert (promote) each student in the 'Music' department who
has earned more than 10 credit hours, as an instructor in the 'Music' department with a salary
40,000". Write an appropriate insertion query for this.
Ans: insert into instructor
select ID, name, dept_name, 40000
from student
where dept_name='Music' and tot_cred > 10;
Q.14. “Give a 5 percent salary raise to the instructors whose salary is less than average.” Write
the corresponding update query.
Ans: update instructor
set salary = salary*1.05
where salary < (select avg(salary)
from instructor);
