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Restricting and Sorting Data

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following:

Limit the rows retrieved by a query Sort the rows retrieved by a query

Limiting the Rows Selected


Restrict the rows returned by using the WHERE clause.
column|expression [alias],...}

SELECT *|{[DISTINCT] FROM table [WHERE condition(s)];


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The WHERE clause follows the FROM clause.

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Using the WHERE Clause

SELECT employee_id, last_name, job_id, department_id FROM employees WHERE department_id = 90 ;

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Character Strings and Dates


Character strings and date values are enclosed in single quotation marks. values are format sensitive.

Character values are case sensitive, and date The default date format is DD-MON-RR.
SELECT last_name, job_id, department_id FROM employees WHERE last_name = 'Whalen';

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Comparison Conditions
Operator = > >= < <= <> Meaning Equal to Greater than Greater than or equal to Less than Less than or equal to Not equal to

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Using Comparison Conditions

SELECT last_name, salary FROM employees WHERE salary <= 3000;

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Other Comparison Conditions


Operator
BETWEEN

Meaning Between two values (inclusive), Match any of a list of values Match a character pattern Is a null value

...AND... IN(set) LIKE IS NULL

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Using the BETWEEN Condition


Use the BETWEEN condition to display rows based on a range of values.
SELECT last_name, salary FROM employees WHERE salary BETWEEN 2500 AND 3500; Lower limit Upper limit

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Using the IN Condition


Use the IN membership condition to test for values in a list.
SELECT employee_id, last_name, salary, manager_id FROM employees WHERE manager_id IN (100, 101, 201);

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Using the LIKE Condition


Use the LIKE condition to perform wildcard searches of valid search string values. characters or numbers:

% denotes

Search conditions can contain either literal


zero or many characters. _ denotes one character.

SELECT
FROM WHERE

first_name employees first_name LIKE 'S%';

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Using the LIKE Condition


You can combine pattern-matching characters.
SELECT last_name FROM employees WHERE last_name LIKE '_o%';

You can use the ESCAPE identifier to search for the


actual % and _ symbols.

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Using the NULL Conditions


Test for nulls with the IS NULL operator.
SELECT last_name, manager_id FROM employees WHERE manager_id IS NULL;

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Logical Conditions
Operator
AND OR

Meaning Returns TRUE if both component conditions are true Returns TRUE if either component condition is true Returns TRUE if the following condition is false

NOT

Using the AND Operator


AND requires both conditions to be true.
SELECT employee_id, last_name, job_id, salary FROM employees WHERE salary >=10000 AND job_id LIKE '%MAN%';

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Using the OR Operator


OR requires either condition to be true.
SELECT employee_id, last_name, job_id, salary FROM employees WHERE salary >= 10000 OR job_id LIKE '%MAN%';

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Using the NOT Operator


SELECT last_name, job_id FROM employees WHERE job_id NOT IN ('IT_PROG', 'ST_CLERK', 'SA_REP');

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Rules of Precedence
Order Evaluated 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Operator Arithmetic operators Concatenation operator Comparison conditions IS [NOT] NULL, LIKE, [NOT] IN [NOT] BETWEEN NOT logical condition AND logical condition OR logical condition

Override rules of precedence by using parentheses.

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Rules of Precedence
SELECT last_name, job_id, salary FROM employees WHERE job_id = 'SA_REP' OR job_id = 'AD_PRES' AND salary > 15000;

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Rules of Precedence
Use parentheses to force priority.
SELECT last_name, job_id, salary FROM employees WHERE (job_id = 'SA_REP' OR job_id = 'AD_PRES') AND salary > 15000;

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ORDER BY Clause

Sort rows with the ORDER BY clause


ASC: ascending order, default DESC: descending order

The ORDER BY clause comes last in the SELECT


SELECT last_name, job_id, department_id, hire_date FROM employees ORDER BY hire_date ;

statement.

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Sorting in Descending Order


SELECT last_name, job_id, department_id, hire_date FROM employees ORDER BY hire_date DESC ;

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Sorting by Column Alias


SELECT employee_id, last_name, salary*12 annsal FROM employees ORDER BY annsal;

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Sorting by Multiple Columns


The order of ORDER BY list is the order of sort.
SELECT last_name, department_id, salary FROM employees ORDER BY department_id, salary DESC;

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