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DP2 Practice Activities - Answers

1. The document provides examples of SQL queries using various SELECT statements with clauses like WHERE, LIKE, BETWEEN, IN, IS NULL to filter and retrieve data from different database tables. 2. Section 2.1 covers using columns, concatenation, and DISTINCT while section 2.2 introduces the WHERE clause for comparison operators. Section 2.3 demonstrates additional comparison operators like BETWEEN, LIKE, IS NULL, and IN. 3. The examples select fields from tables like customers, cds, songs, and employees to showcase different SQL syntax and functions for querying databases.

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DP2 Practice Activities - Answers

1. The document provides examples of SQL queries using various SELECT statements with clauses like WHERE, LIKE, BETWEEN, IN, IS NULL to filter and retrieve data from different database tables. 2. Section 2.1 covers using columns, concatenation, and DISTINCT while section 2.2 introduces the WHERE clause for comparison operators. Section 2.3 demonstrates additional comparison operators like BETWEEN, LIKE, IS NULL, and IN. 3. The examples select fields from tables like customers, cds, songs, and employees to showcase different SQL syntax and functions for querying databases.

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Practice Activity for DP 2.1 – 2.

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Gery J. Sumual (01123574291-53)

2.1 Working with Columns, Characters, and Rows


Vocabulary: DISTINCT, concatenation operator, string values, DESCRIBE
Try It / Solve It:
1. SELECT last_name "Last Name", address ||', '||city||', '||state||'-'||zip||',
'||phone_number "Mailing Address"
FROM f_customers;
2. a. SELECT first_name
FROM f_staffs;
b. SELECT first_name||' '||last_name AS "DJs on Demand clients"
FROM d_clients;
c. SELECT DISTINCT quantity
FROM f_order_lines;
d. SELECT order_number
FROM f_orders;
3. SELECT ' *** '||first_name||' *** '||first_name||' ***' AS "Super Star"
FROM f_staffs;
4. d. No rows will be returned (because ‘DISTINCT’ must be right after ‘SELECT’)
5. SELECT last_name "EMPLOYEE LAST NAME", salary "CURRENT SALARY", salary*1.05 "SALARY
WITH 5% RAISE"
FROM f_staffs;
6. First_name, phone_number, salary, commission_pct, manager_id, department_id, bonus. All
these columns could have null value meaning that there could be employees without all
these details recorded in the database, possibly the retired employees.
7. SELECT cd_number "Inventory Item", title "CD title", producer "Music Producer", year "Year
Purchased"
FROM d_cds;
8. TRUE
9. TRUE
10. SELECT employee_id, last_name, salary*12 "ANNUAL SALARY"
FROM employees;
11. Salary*12
12. d. both a and b
13. projection
14. c. Employee
15. d. SELECT salary+6*100
16. c. SELECT 'Mr./Ms. '||first_name||' '||last_name ||' '||'is an employee of our company.' AS
"Employees"
17. c. Keywords cannot be abbreviated or split across lines.
18. a. SELECT DEPARTMENT_ID, LAST_NAME, FIRST_NAME FROM employees;
d. SELECT department_id, last_name, first_name FROM employees;
19. d. SelecT* FROM employees (albeit, no)
20. Done!
2.2 Limit Rows Selected
Vocabulary:WHERE clause, comparison operator
Try It / Solve It:
1. SELECT first_name, last_name, address
FROM f_customers
WHERE id = 456;
2. SELECT name, start_date, end_date
FROM f_promotional_menus
WHERE give_away = 'ballpen and highlighter';
3. SELECT 'The ‘ ||1997 recording in our database is The Celebrants Live in Concert' AS "Oldest"
FROM dual;
or
SELECT 'The ' || year || ' recording in our database is The Celebrants Live in Concert' AS
"Oldest"
FROM d_cds
WHERE year = (SELECT MIN(year) FROM d_cds);
4. SELECT producer, title
FROM d_cds
WHERE title = 'Carpe Diem';
5. SELECT title, year
FROM d_cds
WHERE year < 2000;
6. 5000 and 0 - 4999
7. SELECT studentno, fname, lname
FROM students
WHERE sex = 'F';
8. SELECT studentno “Student Number”
FROM students
WHERE major = ‘PE’;
9. SELECT*
FROM students
WHERE sex = ‘M’;
10. SELECT title, year
FROM d_cds
WHERE year ^= 2000;
11. SELECT*
FROM f_staffs
WHERE birthdate < '01-Jan-1980';
2.3 Comparison Operator
Vocabulary: ESCAPE, is null and is not null, BETWEEN … AND …, BETWEEN 1 AND 10, LIKE, IN
Try It / Solve It:
1. SELECT first_name, last_name, salary
FROM f_staffs
WHERE salary BETWEEN 5 AND 10;
2. SELECT loc_type, comments
FROM d_venus
WHERE loc_type = 'Private Home';
3. SELECT first_name, last_name
FROM f_staffs
WHERE salary >= 20.00 and salary <= 60.00;
4. SELECT title
FROM d_cds
WHERE title LIKE '_a%';
5. SELECT *
FROM d_partners
WHERE auth_expense_amt IS NULL;
6. SELECT first_name||' '||last_name "Possible Candidates"
FROM employees
WHERE last_name LIKE '%s';
7. c. WHERE quantity IS NULL;
8. SELECT*
FROM d_songs
WHERE type_code IN (77,12,1);

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