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The document provides examples of SQL queries to retrieve employee data from a database including employee number, name, salary, tenure, and formats salaries and names in various ways. It also includes prompts for user input and conditional logic.

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3 - Practice 3

The document provides examples of SQL queries to retrieve employee data from a database including employee number, name, salary, tenure, and formats salaries and names in various ways. It also includes prompts for user input and conditional logic.

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Practice 3

Part 1
1. Write a query to display the system date. Label the column as Date.
Note: If your database is remotely located in a different time zone, the output will be the
date for the operating system on which the database resides.

2. The HR department needs a report to display the employee number, last name, salary, and
salary increased by 15.5% (expressed as a whole number) for each employee. Label the
column New Salary. Save your SQL statement in a file named lab_03_02.sql.

3. Run your query in the lab_03_02.sql file.

4. Modify your query lab_03_02.sql to add a column that subtracts the old salary from the
new salary. Label the column Increase. Save the contents of the file as
lab_03_04.sql. Run the revised query.

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Practice 3 (continued)
5. Write a query that displays the last name (with the first letter in uppercase and all the other
letters in lowercase) and the length of the last name for all employees whose name starts
with the letters “J,” “A,” or “M.” Give each column an appropriate label. Sort the results by
the employees’ last names.

Rewrite the query so that the user is prompted to enter a letter that the last name starts
with. For example, if the user enters “H” (capitalized) when prompted for a letter, then the
output should show all employees whose last name starts with the letter “H.”

Modify the query such that the case of the entered letter does not affect the output. The
entered letter must be capitalized before being processed by the SELECT query.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I 3 - 35


Practice 3 (continued)
6. The HR department wants to find the duration of employment for each employee. For
each employee, display the last name and calculate the number of months between today
and the date on which the employee was hired. Label the column as MONTHS_WORKED.
Order your results by the number of months employed. Round the number of months up
to the closest whole number.
Note: Because this query depends on the date when it was executed, the values in the
MONTHS_WORKED column will differ for you.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I 3 - 36


Practice 3 (continued)
If you have time, complete the following exercises:
7. Create a query to display the last name and salary for all employees. Format the salary to
be 15 characters long, left-padded with the $ symbol. Label the column as SALARY.

8. Create a query that displays the first eight characters of the employees’ last names and
indicates the amounts of their salaries with asterisks. Each asterisk signifies a thousand
dollars. Sort the data in descending order of salary. Label the column as
EMPLOYEES_AND_THEIR_SALARIES.

9. Create a query to display the last name and the number of weeks employed for all
employees in department 90. Label the number of weeks column as TENURE. Truncate the
number of weeks value to 0 decimal places. Show the records in descending order of the
employee’s tenure.
Note: The TENURE value will differ as it depends on the date on which you run the query.

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