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SQL 3

The ALTER command is used to modify existing database tables. It allows adding, dropping, or modifying columns and constraints. Examples show using ALTER to add a primary key, drop a unique constraint, modify a check constraint, add and modify columns, drop columns, and rename a table and column.

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SQL 3

The ALTER command is used to modify existing database tables. It allows adding, dropping, or modifying columns and constraints. Examples show using ALTER to add a primary key, drop a unique constraint, modify a check constraint, add and modify columns, drop columns, and rename a table and column.

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ALTER

• It is used to add, delete or modify columns in an existing table.


• Also used to add and drop various constraints on an existing table.
• Ex: CREATE TABLE Emp(emp_id NUMBER, emp_name varchar2(10) UNIQUE,
salary NUMBER CHECK(Salary >=5000),
phone varchar2(13), pincode varchar2(6));
• ALTER TABLE Emp ADD PRIMARY KEY(emp_id);
• ALTER TABLE Emp DROP UNIQUE(emp_name);
• ALTER TABLE Emp MODIFY CHECK(salary >= 10000);
• ALTER TABLE Emp ADD(address varchar2(30), dob date);
• ALTER TABLE Emp MODIFY(phone varchar2(20), emp_name varchar2(30));
• ALTER TABLE Emp DROP(pincode, address);
• ALTER TABLE Emp RENAME COLUMN phone TO mobile;
• ALTER TABLE Emp RENAME to Employee; or RENAME Emp to Employee;
SELECT
• Used to retrieve data from database
• Syntax: SELECT <attr_list> FROM <table_list> WHERE <conditions>;
• attr_list: List of attributes whose values are to be retrieved by the query
• table_list: List of tables from which we retrieve the data
• condition: Conditional [Boolean] expressions that identifies the rows
retrieved by the query
SELECT

dept_id dept_name emp_id dept emp_name Job


1 CE 1 5 Abhay a
2 IT
2 2 Kunal b
3 EC
3 1 Chintan a
4 CH
5 IC 4 4 Hardik a
5 2 Prapti b
6 3 Zarana c
SELECT
• Q: Retrieve the names of the employees who works for department 1
➢ SELECT emp_name FROM Emp WHERE dept = 1;

• Q: Retrieve the names, emp_id of the employees who works for IT dept.
➢ SELECT emp_id, emp_name FROM Emp, Dept
WHERE dept = dept_id AND dept_name = ‘IT’;

• Retrieve the jobs of all the employees


➢SELECT job FROM Emp;
➢SELECT DISTINCT job FROM Emp;
Aliasing
• SQL Aliases are used to temporarily rename a table (or) a column in a
table.

Emp_id dept_id Emp_name Sup_id Sal


Dept_id Dept_name
1 Accounting 1 1 Abhay 7 50000

2 Sales 2 3 Kunal 4 55000


3 Research 3 1 Chintan 7 59000
4 Finance 4 4 Hardik 7 50000
5 2 Prapti 4 35000
6 1 Zarana 7 90000
7 1 Mohit NULL 30000
Aliasing
• Q: For each employee retrieve employee’s id, name, salary and the
name of his/her immediate supervisor.
➢ SELECT E.Emp_id AS “Employee_id”, E.Sal AS “Salary”,
E.Emp_name AS “Employee_name”,
S.Emp_name AS “Supervisor_name”
FROM Emp E, Emp S
WHERE E.Sup_id = S.Emp_id;
Aliasing
• Q: Retrieve the names of the employees and their corresponding
name of the department.
➢ SELECT E.Emp_name AS “Employee_name”,
D.Dept_name AS “Department_name”
FROM Emp E, Dept D
WHERE E.dept_id = D.Dept_id;
Arithmetic Operators
• +, -, *, /
• SQL Allows the use of arithmetic operators in queries on numeric
domains.
❖Increase the salary of the employee by 10 percent and display the
salary and employee name.
➢SELECT Emp_name, Sal*1.1 FROM Emp;
• CONCATENATE
• For string data type, the concatenate operator ‘||’ can be used in a
query to append two string values.
➢SELECT FNAME || LNAME AS “FULL_NAME” FROM Emp;

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