SQL Queries Interview Questions - Oracle Part 1

As a database developer, writing SQL queries, PLSQL code is part of daily life. Having a good knowledge on SQL is really important. Here i am posting some practical examples on SQL queries. To solve these interview questions on SQL queries you have to create the products, sales tables in your oracle database. The "Create Table", "Insert" statements are provided below.
CREATE TABLE PRODUCTS ( PRODUCT_ID PRODUCT_NAME ); CREATE TABLE SALES ( SALE_ID PRODUCT_ID YEAR Quantity PRICE ); INSERT INSERT INSERT INSERT INTO INTO INTO INTO PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PRODUCTS SALES SALES SALES SALES SALES SALES SALES SALES SALES

INTEGER, VARCHAR2(30)

INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 100, 100, 100, 200, 200, 200, 300, 300, 300, 'Nokia'); 'IPhone'); 'Samsung'); 'LG'); 2010, 2011, 2012, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2010, 2011, 2012, 25, 16, 8, 10, 15, 20, 20, 18, 20, 5000); 5000); 5000); 9000); 9000); 9000); 7000); 7000); 7000);

INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO COMMIT;

VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES

The products table contains the below data.

SELECT * FROM PRODUCTS; PRODUCT_ID PRODUCT_NAME ----------------------100 Nokia 200 IPhone 300 Samsung

The sales table contains the following data.

SELECT * FROM SALES;

SALE_ID PRODUCT_ID YEAR QUANTITY PRICE -------------------------------------1 100 2010 25 5000 2 100 2011 16 5000 3 100 2012 8 5000 4 200 2010 10 9000 5 200 2011 15 9000 6 200 2012 20 9000 7 300 2010 20 7000 8 300 2011 18 7000 9 300 2012 20 7000

Here Quantity is the number of products sold in each year. Price is the sale price of each product. I hope you have created the tables in your oracle database. Now try to solve the below SQL queries. 1. Write a SQL query to find the products which have continuous increase in sales every year? Solution: Here Iphone is the only product whose sales are increasing every year. STEP1: First we will get the previous year sales for each product. The SQL query to do this is
SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.YEAR, S.QUANTITY, LEAD(S.QUANTITY,1,0) OVER ( PARTITION BY P.PRODUCT_ID ORDER BY S.YEAR DESC ) QUAN_PREV_YEAR FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID; PRODUCT_NAME YEAR QUANTITY QUAN_PREV_YEAR ----------------------------------------Nokia 2012 8 16 Nokia 2011 16 25 Nokia 2010 25 0 IPhone 2012 20 15 IPhone 2011 15 10 IPhone 2010 10 0 Samsung 2012 20 18 Samsung 2011 18 20 Samsung 2010 20 0

Here the lead analytic function will get the quantity of a product in its previous year. STEP2: We will find the difference between the quantities of a product with its previous years quantity. If this difference is greater than or equal to zero for all the rows, then the product is a constantly increasing in sales. The final query to get the required result is
SELECT PRODUCT_NAME FROM ( SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.QUANTITY LEAD(S.QUANTITY,1,0) OVER ( PARTITION BY P.PRODUCT_ID ORDER BY S.YEAR DESC ) QUAN_DIFF FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID )A GROUP BY PRODUCT_NAME HAVING MIN(QUAN_DIFF) >= 0; PRODUCT_NAME -----------IPhone

2. Write a SQL query to find the products which does not have sales at all? Solution: LG is the only product which does not have sales at all. This can be achieved in three ways. Method1: Using left outer join.
SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME FROM PRODUCTS P LEFT OUTER JOIN SALES S ON (P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID); WHERE S.QUANTITY IS NULL PRODUCT_NAME -----------LG

Method2: Using the NOT IN operator.

SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME FROM PRODUCTS P WHERE P.PRODUCT_ID NOT IN

(SELECT DISTINCT PRODUCT_ID FROM SALES); PRODUCT_NAME -----------LG

Method3: Using the NOT EXISTS operator.

SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME FROM PRODUCTS P WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM SALES S WHERE S.PRODUCT_ID = P.PRODUCT_ID); PRODUCT_NAME -----------LG

3. Write a SQL query to find the products whose sales decreased in 2012 compared to 2011? Solution: Here Nokia is the only product whose sales decreased in year 2012 when compared with the sales in the year 2011. The SQL query to get the required output is
SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S_2012, SALES S_2011 WHERE P.PRODUCT_ID = S_2012.PRODUCT_ID AND S_2012.YEAR = 2012 AND S_2011.YEAR = 2011 AND S_2012.PRODUCT_ID = S_2011.PRODUCT_ID AND S_2012.QUANTITY < S_2011.QUANTITY; PRODUCT_NAME -----------Nokia

4. Write a query to select the top product sold in each year? Solution: Nokia is the top product sold in the year 2010. Similarly, Samsung in 2011 and IPhone, Samsung in 2012. The query for this is
SELECT PRODUCT_NAME, YEAR FROM ( SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.YEAR,

FROM

WHERE ) A WHERE RNK = 1;

RANK() OVER ( PARTITION BY S.YEAR ORDER BY S.QUANTITY DESC ) RNK PRODUCTS P, SALES S P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID

PRODUCT_NAME YEAR -------------------Nokia 2010 Samsung 2011 IPhone 2012 Samsung 2012

5. Write a query to find the total sales of each product.? Solution: This is a simple query. You just need to group by the data on PRODUCT_NAME and then find the sum of sales.
SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, NVL( SUM( S.QUANTITY*S.PRICE ), 0) TOTAL_SALES FROM PRODUCTS P LEFT OUTER JOIN SALES S ON (P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID) GROUP BY P.PRODUCT_NAME; PRODUCT_NAME TOTAL_SALES --------------------------LG 0 IPhone 405000 Samsung 406000 Nokia 245000

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Neel02 January, 2012 11:21 Please provide simple sql (dont use analytical function) to question no 4 (i.e Write a query to select the top product sold in each year) ReplyDelete

2. vijay bhaskar02 January, 2012 20:37 @Neel Without using analytical functions.

SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.YEAR, S.QUANTITY FROM ( SELECT YEAR, MAX(QUANTITY) QUAN FROM SALES GROUP BY YEAR )A, SALES S, PRODUCTS P WHERE A.YEAR = S.YEAR AND A.QUAN = S.QUANTITY AND S.PRODUCT_ID = P.PRODUCT_ID; What if we want to get top 3 products sold in every year? ReplyDelete

3. Neel03 January, 2012 05:46 Thanks Vijay for quick and super easy answer, i was actually looking for such kind of solution. Thanks a lot. Now to your question (about top 3 product sold each year), we can do two ways: -- (i am assuming only top 2 -- as number of records r 3 total each year..so top 3 would include all rows :) hence query for top 2 result....... ----Using analytical function---select s.product_id, s.year, s.quantity from (select product_id, year, quantity, rank() over(partition by year order by quantity desc) sno from sales )s where s.sno <=2; -- product name can be found by joining products table to above result set --using simple sql -- (corelated query) select ad.product_id, ad.year, ad.quantity from sales ad

where 2 >= ( select count(quantity) from sales b where ad.quantity <= b.quantity and ad.year=b.year ) order by ad.year; please suggest if we can achieve same using some other simple sql(no anlaytic) way. ReplyDelete

4. vijay bhaskar03 January, 2012 19:56 @Neel The correlated query working only when there is distinct quantities in a year. I checked it for picking only one product in a year and it failed in that case. This needs to be changed a bit. I will try and post the query.

ReplyDelete

5. Neel03 January, 2012 23:12 Vijay, I executed corelated query again and again, and found the result which include same quantity in same year (star marked, manually): see the result set: id year quantity --- ----- ---100 2010 25 300 2010 20 300 2011 18 100 2011 16 300 2012 20* 200 2012 20* so, this is really fine (bcoz, i hv mentioned equal sign also in insider query). Lets try with some other way, and post some intersting question just as you posted. or write me to [email protected]. I want to test my oracle sql skills. Thanks, Neel. Reply

SQL Queries Interview Questions - Oracle Part 2

This is continuation to my previous post, SQL Queries Interview Questions - Oracle Part 1 , Where i have used PRODUCTS and SALES tables as an example. Here also i am using the same tables. So, just take a look at the tables by going through that link and it will be easy for you to understand the questions mentioned here. Solve the below examples by writing SQL queries. 1. Write a query to find the products whose quantity sold in a year should be greater than the average quantity of the product sold across all the years? Solution: This can be solved with the help of correlated query. The SQL query for this is

SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.YEAR, S.QUANTITY FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID AND S.QUANTITY > (SELECT AVG(QUANTITY) FROM SALES S1 WHERE S1.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID ); PRODUCT_NAME YEAR QUANTITY -------------------------Nokia 2010 25 IPhone 2012 20 Samsung 2012 20 Samsung 2010 20

2. Write a query to compare the products sales of "IPhone" and "Samsung" in each year? The output should look like as
YEAR IPHONE_QUANT SAM_QUANT IPHONE_PRICE SAM_PRICE --------------------------------------------------2010 10 20 9000 7000 2011 15 18 9000 7000 2012 20 20 9000 7000

Solution: By using self-join SQL query we can get the required result. The required SQL query is
SELECT S_I.YEAR, S_I.QUANTITY IPHONE_QUANT, S_S.QUANTITY SAM_QUANT, S_I.PRICE IPHONE_PRICE, S_S.PRICE SAM_PRICE FROM PRODUCTS P_I, SALES S_I, PRODUCTS P_S, SALES S_S WHERE P_I.PRODUCT_ID = S_I.PRODUCT_ID AND P_S.PRODUCT_ID = S_S.PRODUCT_ID AND P_I.PRODUCT_NAME = 'IPhone' AND P_S.PRODUCT_NAME = 'Samsung' AND S_I.YEAR = S_S.YEAR

3. Write a query to find the ratios of the sales of a product? Solution: The ratio of a product is calculated as the total sales price in a particular year divide by

the total sales price across all years. Oracle provides RATIO_TO_REPORT analytical function for finding the ratios. The SQL query is
SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.YEAR, RATIO_TO_REPORT(S.QUANTITY*S.PRICE) OVER(PARTITION BY P.PRODUCT_NAME ) SALES_RATIO FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE (P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID); PRODUCT_NAME YEAR RATIO ----------------------------IPhone 2011 0.333333333 IPhone 2012 0.444444444 IPhone 2010 0.222222222 Nokia 2012 0.163265306 Nokia 2011 0.326530612 Nokia 2010 0.510204082 Samsung 2010 0.344827586 Samsung 2012 0.344827586 Samsung 2011 0.310344828

4. In the SALES table quantity of each product is stored in rows for every year. Now write a query to transpose the quantity for each product and display it in columns? The output should look like as
PRODUCT_NAME QUAN_2010 QUAN_2011 QUAN_2012 -----------------------------------------IPhone 10 15 20 Samsung 20 18 20 Nokia 25 16 8

Solution: Oracle 11g provides a pivot function to transpose the row data into column data. The SQL query for this is
SELECT * FROM ( SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.QUANTITY, S.YEAR FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE (P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID) )A PIVOT ( MAX(QUANTITY) AS QUAN FOR (YEAR) IN (2010,2011,2012));

If you are not running oracle 11g database, then use the below query for transposing the row data into column data.
SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME,

MAX(DECODE(S.YEAR,2010, S.QUANTITY)) QUAN_2010, MAX(DECODE(S.YEAR,2011, S.QUANTITY)) QUAN_2011, MAX(DECODE(S.YEAR,2012, S.QUANTITY)) QUAN_2012 FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE (P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID) GROUP BY P.PRODUCT_NAME;

5. Write a query to find the number of products sold in each year? Solution: To get this result we have to group by on year and the find the count. The SQL query for this question is
SELECT YEAR, COUNT(1) NUM_PRODUCTS FROM SALES GROUP BY YEAR; YEAR NUM_PRODUCTS -----------------2010 3 2011 3 2012 3

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Yuvakesh Y04 July, 2012 21:43 Hi Vijay, For 1st query we need to write query like given below then only we will get all values which are greater than the avg value. SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME, S.YEAR, S.QUANTITY FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID AND S.QUANTITY > (SELECT AVG(QUANTITY) FROM SALES S );

Correct me if am wrong. ReplyDelete Replies 1.

vijay bhaskar04 July, 2012 22:00 This works when you want to find the avg across all the years (ignoring products). In my requirement i want to find the products whose quantity is greater than the average quantity of the product across all the years. Delete

2.

shaukat pathan03 October, 2012 08:10 i think below query will not work as year 2011 is not included in the output. this should have below query correct me if i am wrong. SELECT P.PRODUCT_NAME,P.PRODUCT_id, S.YEAR, S.QUANTITY FROM PRODUCTS P, SALES S WHERE P.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID AND S.QUANTITY > (SELECT AVG(QUANTITY) FROM SALES S1 WHERE S1.YEAR = S.YEAR) order by year

Delete 3.

vijay bhaskar03 October, 2012 08:30 Year 2011 is not qualified as the product sales is less than the average sales Delete Reply

2. Yuvakesh Y01 August, 2012 04:43 Hi Vijay, Below is the Input table. City Name Count A Yuvakesh 2 C Yuvakesh 4 D Yuvakesh 3 A Raj 1 C Raj 4 E Raj 3 here based on the Name i need to calculate the sum(2+4+3) and i need to display all the rows as it is along with sum as shown in below table. I want to make this in mysql.

OutPut: City Name Count sum A Yuvakesh 2 9 C Yuvakesh 4 9 D Yuvakesh 3 9 A Raj 1 8 C Raj 4 8 E Raj 3 8 Please let me know how to get the desired result in mysql. Thanks in advance. ReplyDelete Replies

1. vijay bhaskar01 August, 2012 23:11 I am not sure about analytic functions in mysql. However you can get the required output by using two sub queries and joining them. This is shown below: select t.city, t.Name, t.count_c, a.sum_s from ( select Name, sum(count_c) sum_s from tablename group by Name ) a, tablename t where a.Name = t.Name Delete 2. Yuvakesh Y02 August, 2012 22:23 Thanks a lot Vijay, am able to get desired result by using the above query....

Regards, Yuvakesh Delete Reply 3. Yuvakesh Y14 September, 2012 00:25 Hi Vijay, I would like to delete 'last_data_updated' for table_id group from my etl_run table by using the below query Delete from etl_run where last_data_updated not in (select max(last_data_updated) as last_data_updated from `etl_run` where status='Completed' group by table_ID); But am facing an error like 'you can't specify target table for updat...' Please suggest me how to achieve this in another way... Thanks in advance. Regards, Yuvakesh ReplyDelete Replies 1. vijay bhaskar14 September, 2012 06:30 Hi, Right now i dont have access to the db. I am providing rough sql queries here. Try them and if they didn't work, let me know. Then i will provide the exact sql queries on monday. delete from etl_run t where not exists

(select 1 from etl_run where status ='completed' and table_id = t.table_id group by table_id having max(last_data_updated) = t.last_data_updated ); delete from etl_run t where last_data_updated != (select max(last_data_updated) from etl_run where status ='completed' and table_id = t.table_id ); Delete 2. Yuvakesh Y18 September, 2012 02:54 Thanks Vijay,with the help of the above logic I have developed required query. Thanks a lot.

SQL Queries Interview Questions - Oracle Part 3

Here I am providing Oracle SQL Query Interview Questions. If you find any bugs in the queries, Please do comment. So, that i will rectify them. 1. Write a query to generate sequence numbers from 1 to the specified number N? Solution:
SELECT LEVEL FROM DUAL CONNECT BY LEVEL<=&N;

2. Write a query to display only friday dates from Jan, 2000 to till now? Solution:
SELECT C_DATE, TO_CHAR(C_DATE,'DY')

FROM ( SELECT TO_DATE('01-JAN-2000','DD-MON-YYYY')+LEVEL-1 C_DATE FROM DUAL

CONNECT BY LEVEL <= (SYSDATE - TO_DATE('01-JAN-2000','DD-MON-YYYY')+1) ) WHERE TO_CHAR(C_DATE,'DY') = 'FRI';

3. Write a query to duplicate each row based on the value in the repeat column? The input table data looks like as below
Products, Repeat ---------------A, 3 B, 5 C, 2

Now in the output data, the product A should be repeated 3 times, B should be repeated 5 times and C should be repeated 2 times. The output will look like as below
Products, Repeat ---------------A, 3 A, 3 A, 3 B, 5 B, 5 B, 5 B, 5 B, 5 C, 2 C, 2

Solution:
SELECT PRODUCTS, REPEAT FROM T, ( SELECT LEVEL L FROM DUAL CONNECT BY LEVEL <= (SELECT MAX(REPEAT) FROM T) ) A WHERE T.REPEAT >= A.L ORDER BY T.PRODUCTS;

4. Write a query to display each letter of the word "SMILE" in a separate row?
S M I L E

Solution:
SELECT SUBSTR('SMILE',LEVEL,1) A FROM DUAL CONNECT BY LEVEL <=LENGTH('SMILE');

5. Convert the string "SMILE" to Ascii values? The output should look like as 83,77,73,76,69. Where 83 is the ascii value of S and so on. The ASCII function will give ascii value for only one character. If you pass a string to the ascii function, it will give the ascii value of first letter in the string. Here i am providing two solutions to get the ascii values of string. Solution1:
SELECT SUBSTR(DUMP('SMILE'),15) FROM DUAL;

Solution2:
SELECT WM_CONCAT(A) FROM ( SELECT ASCII(SUBSTR('SMILE',LEVEL,1)) A FROM DUAL CONNECT BY LEVEL <=LENGTH('SMILE') );

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SQL Queries Interview Questions - Oracle Part 4

1. Consider the following friends table as the source
Name, Friend_Name ----------------sam, ram sam, vamsi vamsi, ram vamsi, jhon ram, vijay ram, anand

Here ram and vamsi are friends of sam; ram and jhon are friends of vamsi and so on. Now write a query to find friends of friends of sam. For sam; ram,jhon,vijay and anand are friends of friends. The output should look as
Name, Friend_of_Firend ---------------------sam, ram

sam, sam, sam,

jhon vijay anand

Solution:
SELECT FROM WHERE AND f1.name, f2.friend_name as friend_of_friend friends f1, friends f2 f1.name = 'sam' 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
Name, Friend_of_Friend ---------------------sam, jhon sam, vijay sam, anand

Solution:
SELECT FROM WHERE AND AND f1.name, f2.friend_name as friend_of_friend friends f1, friends f2 f1.name = 'sam' f1.friend_name = f2.name NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM friends f3 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 ----------------------------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 FROM ( SELECT products, quantity_sold, year

)A WHERE r <= 5;

products, quantity_sold, year, rownum r from t ORDER BY quantity_sold DESC

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 ( 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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SQL Query Interview Questions - Part 5

Write SQL queries for the below interview questions: 1. Load the below products table into the target table.
CREATE TABLE PRODUCTS ( PRODUCT_ID INTEGER, PRODUCT_NAME VARCHAR2(30) ); INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO COMMIT; PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PRODUCTS PRODUCTS VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES ( ( ( ( ( ( 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 'Nokia'); 'IPhone'); 'Samsung'); 'LG'); 'BlackBerry'); 'Motorola');

SELECT * FROM PRODUCTS; PRODUCT_ID PRODUCT_NAME ----------------------100 Nokia 200 IPhone 300 Samsung 400 LG 500 BlackBerry 600 Motorola

The requirements for loading the target table are:

Select only 2 products randomly. Do not select the products which are already loaded in the target table with in the last 30 days. Target table should always contain the products loaded in 30 days. It should not contain the products which are loaded prior to 30 days.

Solution:

First we will create a target table. The target table will have an additional column INSERT_DATE to know when a product is loaded into the target table. The target table structure is
CREATE TABLE TGT_PRODUCTS ( PRODUCT_ID INTEGER, PRODUCT_NAME VARCHAR2(30), INSERT_DATE DATE );

The next step is to pick 5 products randomly and then load into target table. While selecting check whether the products are there in the
INSERT INTO TGT_PRODUCTS SELECT PRODUCT_ID, PRODUCT_NAME, SYSDATE INSERT_DATE FROM ( SELECT PRODUCT_ID, PRODUCT_NAME FROM PRODUCTS S WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM TGT_PRODUCTS T WHERE T.PRODUCT_ID = S.PRODUCT_ID ) ORDER BY DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE --Random number generator in oracle. )A WHERE ROWNUM <= 2;

The last step is to delete the products from the table which are loaded 30 days back.
DELETE FROM TGT_PRODUCTS WHERE INSERT_DATE < SYSDATE - 30;

2. Load the below CONTENTS table into the target table.

CREATE TABLE CONTENTS ( CONTENT_ID INTEGER, CONTENT_TYPE VARCHAR2(30) ); INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO INSERT INTO COMMIT; CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES VALUES (1,'MOVIE'); (2,'MOVIE'); (3,'AUDIO'); (4,'AUDIO'); (5,'MAGAZINE'); (6,'MAGAZINE');

SELECT * FROM CONTENTS;

CONTENT_ID CONTENT_TYPE ----------------------1 MOVIE 2 MOVIE 3 AUDIO 4 AUDIO 5 MAGAZINE 6 MAGAZINE

The requirements to load the target table are:

Load only one content type at a time into the target table. The target table should always contain only one contain type. The loading of content types should follow round-robin style. First MOVIE, second AUDIO, Third MAGAZINE and again fourth Movie.

Solution: First we will create a lookup table where we mention the priorities for the content types. The lookup table Create Statement and data is shown below.
CREATE TABLE CONTENTS_LKP ( CONTENT_TYPE VARCHAR2(30), PRIORITY INTEGER, LOAD_FLAG INTEGER ); INSERT INTO CONTENTS_LKP VALUES('MOVIE',1,1); INSERT INTO CONTENTS_LKP VALUES('AUDIO',2,0); INSERT INTO CONTENTS_LKP VALUES('MAGAZINE',3,0); COMMIT; SELECT * FROM CONTENTS_LKP; CONTENT_TYPE PRIORITY LOAD_FLAG --------------------------------MOVIE 1 1 AUDIO 2 0 MAGAZINE 3 0

Here if LOAD_FLAG is 1, then it indicates which content type needs to be loaded into the target table. Only one content type will have LOAD_FLAG as 1. The other content types will have LOAD_FLAG as 0. The target table structure is same as the source table structure. The second step is to truncate the target table before loading the data
TRUNCATE TABLE TGT_CONTENTS;

The third step is to choose the appropriate content type from the lookup table to load the source data into the target table.
INSERT INTO TGT_CONTENTS SELECT CONTENT_ID, CONTENT_TYPE FROM CONTENTS WHERE CONTENT_TYPE = (SELECT CONTENT_TYPE FROM CONTENTS_LKP WHERE LOAD_FLAG=1);

The last step is to update the LOAD_FLAG of the Lookup table.

UPDATE CONTENTS_LKP SET LOAD_FLAG = 0 WHERE LOAD_FLAG = 1; UPDATE CONTENTS_LKP SET LOAD_FLAG = 1 WHERE PRIORITY = ( SELECT DECODE( PRIORITY,(SELECT MAX(PRIORITY) FROM CONTENTS_LKP) ,1 , PRIORITY+1) FROM CONTENTS_LKP WHERE CONTENT_TYPE = (SELECT DISTINCT CONTENT_TYPE FROM TGT_CONTENTS) );