SQL PRACTICAL QUESTIONS
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MySQL Practical
1. CREATING TABLES IN MYSQL
E.g. in order to create table EMPLOYEE given below :
ECODE ENAME GENDER GRADE GROSS
We write the following
command :
CREATE TABLE
employee (
ECODE integer ,
ENAME
varchar(20) ,
GENDER
char(1) ,
GRADE
char(2) ,
GROSS
integer
);
2. INSERTING DATA INTO TABLE
- e.g. to enter a row into EMPLOYEE table (created above), we write command as :
INSERT INTO employee VALUES(1001 , ‘Ravi’ , ‘M’ , ‘E4’ , 50000);
OR
INSERT INTO employee (ECODE , ENAME , GENDER , GRADE , GROSS) VALUES(1001 , ‘Ravi’ ,
‘M’ , ‘E4’ , 50000);
- To insert value NULL in a specific column, we can type NULL without quotes and NULL will be
inserted in that column. E.g. in order to insert NULL value in ENAME column of above table, we write
INSERT command as :
e.g.In order to retrieve everything from Employee table, we write SELECT command as :
EMPLOYEE
ECODE ENAME GENDER GRADE GROSS
1001 Ravi M E4 50000
1002 Akash M A1 35000
1004 NULL M B2 38965
SELECT * FROM Employee ;
FROM EMPLOYEE ;
E.g.2 in order to select only ENAME, GRADE and GROSS column, the command is :
SELECT ENAME , GRADE , GROSS
FROM EMPLOYEE ;
E.g.2. in order to select rows where salary is greater than 48000, then
command is : SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE GROSS > 48000 ;
GENDER
M
M
F
M
F
F
DISTINCT(GENDER)
M
F
8. VIEWING STRUCTURE OF A TABLE
- If we want to know the structure of a table, we can use DESCRIBE or DESC command, as per following syntax :
DESCRIBE | DESC <tablename> ;
e.g. to view the structure of table EMPLOYEE, commandis : DESCRIBE EMPLOYEE ; OR DESC EMPLOYEE ;
FROM EMPLOYEE ;
e.g. to display ECODE, ENAME and GRADE of those employees whose salary is between 40000 and 50000,
command is:
SELECT ECODE , ENAME
,GRADE FROM
EMPLOYEE
WHERE GROSS BETWEEN 40000 AND 50000 ;
Output will be :
ECODE ENAME GRADE
1001 Ravi E4
1006 Ruby A1
SELECT * FROM
EMPLOYEE WHERE
GRADE IN (‘A1’ , ‘A2’);
Output will be :
ECODE ENAME GENDER GRADE GROSS
1002 Akash M A1 35000
1006 Ruby F A1 45000
1005 Sunny M A2 30000
1009 Neema F A2 52000
- The NOT IN operatorfinds rows that do not match in the list. E.g.
SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE GRADE NOT IN (‘A1’ , ‘A2’);
Output will be :
ECODE ENAME GENDER GRADE GROSS
1001 Ravi M E4 50000
1004 Neela F B2 38965
e.g. to display names of employee whose name starts with R in EMPLOYEE table, the command is :
SELECT ENAME FROM EMPLOYEE
Output will be :
ENAME
Ravi
Ruby
Output will be :
ECODE ENAME GENDER GRADE GROSS
1004 Neela F B2 38965
1009 Neema F A2 52000
Output will be :
ECODE ENAME GENDER GRADE GROSS
1005 Sunny M A2 30000
1006 Ruby F A1 45000
e.g.
STUDENT
Roll_No Name Marks
1 ARUN NULL
2 RAVI 56
4 SANJAY NULL
to display the names of those students whose marks is NULL, we use the
command : SELECT Name
FROM EMPLOYEE
Output will be :
Name
ARUN
SANJAY
e.g. to display the details of employees in EMPLOYEE table in alphabetical order, we use
command : SELECT *
FROM
EMPLOYEE
ORDER BY
ENAME ;
Output will be :
ECODE ENAME GENDER GRADE GROSS
1002 Akash M A1 35000
1004 Neela F B2 38965
1009 Neema F A2 52000
1001 Ravi M E4 50000
1006 Ruby F A1 45000
1005 Sunny M A2 30000
e.g. display list of employee in descending alphabetical order whose salary is greater than 40000.
SELECT ENAME
FROM
EMPLOYEE
WHERE GROSS >
40000 ORDER BY
ENAME desc ;
Output will be :
ENAME
Ravi
Ruby
Neema
e.g. to change the salary of employee of those in EMPLOYEE table having employee code 1009 to 55000.
UPDATE EMPLOYEE SET GROSS = 55000 WHERE ECODE = 1009 ;
OTHER EXAMPLES
Increase the salary of each employee by 1000 in the EMPLOYEE table.
UPDATE EMPLOYEE
Change the grade to ‘A2’ for those employees whose employee code is 1004 and name is Neela.
UPDATE EMPLOYEE
SET GRADE=’A2’
WHERE <condition> ;
For example, to remove the details of those employee from EMPLOYEE table whose grade is A1.
DELETE FROM EMPLOYEE
So if we do not specify any condition with WHERE clause, then all the rows of the table will be deleted.
Thus above line will delete all rows from employee table.
Once this command is given, the table name is no longer recognized and no more commands can be given on
that table. After this command is executed, all the data in the table along with table structure will be deleted.
e.g. Given a table namely Testt with the following data in it.
Col1 Col2
1 A
2 G
Now following commands are given for the table. Predict the table contents after each of the following statements:
(i) ALTER TABLE testt ADD col3 INT ;
(ii) ALTER TABLE testt ADD col4 INT NOT NULL ;
(iii) ALTER TABLE testt ADD col5 CHAR(3) NOT NULL ;
(iv) ALTER TABLE testtADD col6 VARCHAR(3);
22.MODIFYING COLUMNS
In table EMPLOYEE, change the column GROSS to SALARY.
In table EMPLOYEE , change the column ENAME to EM_NAME and data type from
VARCHAR(20) to VARCHAR(30).
In table EMPLOYEE , change the datatype of GRADE column from CHAR(2) to VARCHAR(2).
To delete a column from a table, the ALTER TABLE command takes the following form :
DROP GRADE ;
Table : EMPL
1. AVG( )
This function computes the average of given data.
e.g. SELECT AVG(SAL)
FROM EMPL ;
Output
AVG(SAL)
6051.6
2. COUNT( )
This function counts the number of rows in a given column.
If you specify the COLUMN name in parenthesis of function, then this function returns rows where
COLUMN is not null.
If you specify the asterisk (*), this function returns all rows, including duplicates and nulls.
3. MAX( )
This function returns the maximum value from a given column or expression.
Output
MAX(SAL)
9870
4. MIN( )
This function returns the minimum value from a given column or expression.
5. SUM( )
This function returns the sum of values in given column or expression.
Output
SUM(SAL)
30258
The GROUP BY clause combines all those records(row) that have identical values in a particular field(column) or a
group of fields(columns).
GROUPING can be done by a column name, or with aggregate functions in which case the aggregate produces a
value for each group.
Table : EMPL
NESTED GROUP
- To create a group within a group i.e., nested group, you need to specify multiplefields in the GROUP BY
expression.
e.g. To group records job wise within Deptno wise, you need to issue a query statement like :
- The HAVING clause places conditions on groups in contrast to WHERE clause that places condition on
individual rows. While WHERE conditions cannot include aggregate functions, HAVING conditions can
do so.
- e.g. To display the jobs where the number of employees is less than 2,
- SELECT JOB, COUNT(*) FROM EMPL GROUP BY JOB
HAVING COUNT(*) < 2 ;
Output
JOB COUNT(*)
CLERK 1
MANAGER 1
MySQL FUNCTIONS
Types of MySQL functions : String Functions , Maths Functions and Date & Time Functions.
Table : EMPL
STRING FUNCTIONS
e.g.
SELECT UPPER(ENAME) FROM EMPL ;
Output
UPPER(ENAME)
SMITH
ANYA
AMIR
BINA
SUR
Syntax : SUBSTR(Column name, m , n), where m specifies starting index and n specifies number of
characters from the starting index m.
e.g.
SELECT SUBSTR(ENAME,2,2) FROM EMPL WHERE DEPTNO=20;
Output
SUBSTR(ENAME,2,2)
NY
IN
LENGTH(ENAME)
5
4
4
4
3
e.g.2. Output
9. LEFT( ) – Returns the leftmost numberof characters as specified.
e.g. SELECT LEFT(‘CORPORATE FLOOR’ , 3) ;
Output
LEFT(‘CORPORATE FLOOR’, 3)
COR
NUMERIC FUNCTIONS
These functions accept numeric values and after performing the operation, return numeric value.
1. MOD( ) – Returns the remainder of given two numbers. e.g. SELECT MOD(11 , 4);
Output
MOD(11, 4 )
3
2. POW( ) / POWER( ) - This function returns mn i.e , a numberm raised to the nth power.
e.g. SELECT POWER(3,2) ;
Output
POWER(3, 2 )
9
e.g. 2. SELECT ROUND(15.193 , -1); - This will convert the number to nearest ten’s .
Output
ROUND(15.193 , -1)
20
4. SIGN( ) – This function returns sign of a given number.
If number is negative, the function
returns -1. If number is positive, the
function returns 1. If number is zero,
the function returns 0.
Output
TRUNCATE(15.79 , 1)
15.7
E.g. 2. SELECT TRUNCATE(15.79 , -1); - This command truncate value 15.79 to nearest ten’s place.
Output
TRUNCATE(15.79 , -1)
10
DATE AND TIME FUNCTIONS
Date functions operate on values of the DATE datatype.
2. DATE( ) – This function extracts the date part from a date. E.g.
SELECT DATE( ‘2016-02-09’) ;
Output
DATE( ‘2016-02-09’)
09
6. DAYOFMONTH( ) – This function returns the day of month. Returns value in range of 1 to 31.
E.g. SELECT DAYOFMONTH( ‘2016-12-14’) ;
Output
DAYOFMONTH( ‘2016-12-14’)
14
7. DAYOFWEEK( ) – This function returns the day of week. Return the weekdayindex for
date. (1=Sunday, 2=Monday,……., 7=Saturday)
SELECT DAYOFWEEK( ‘2016-12-14’) ;
Output
DAYOFWEEK( ‘2016-12-14’)
4
8. DAYOFYEAR( ) – This function returns the day of the year. Returns the
value between 1 and 366. E.g. SELECT DAYOFYEAR(‘2016-02-04) ;
Output
DAYOFYEAR( ‘2016-02-04’)
35
10. SYSDATE( ) – It also returns the current date but it return the time at which SYSDATE( ) executes. It
differs from the behavior for NOW( ), which returns a constant time that indicates the time at which the
statement began to execute.
e.g. SELECT SYSDATE( ) ;
JOINS
- A join is a query that combines rows from two or more tables. In a join- query,
more than one table are listed in FROM clause.
Table : empl
Table : dept
This query will give you the Cartesian product i.e. all possible concatenations are formed of all
rows of both the tables EMPL and DEPT. Such an operation is also known as Unrestricted Join.
It returns n1 x n2 rows where n1 is number of rows in first table and n2 is number of rows in
second table.
EQUI-JOIN
- The join in which columns are compared for equality, is called Equi- Join. In
equi-join, all the columns from joining table appear in the output even if they are
identical.
e.g. SELECT * FROM empl, dept
WHERE empl.deptno = dept.deptno ;
Q
Q: with reference to empl and dept table, find the location of employee SMITH.
ename column is present in empl and loc column is present in dept. In order to obtain the result, we
have to join two tables.
QUALIFIED NAMES
Did you notice that in all the WHERE conditions of join queries given so far, the field(column) names
are given as: <tablename>.<columnname>
This type of field names are called qualified field names. Qualified field names are very useful in
identifying a field if the two joining tables have fields with same time. For example, if we say deptno
field from joining tables empl and dept, you’ll definitely ask- deptno field of which table ? To avoid
such an ambiguity, the qualified field names are used.
TABLE ALIAS
- A table alias is a temporary label given along with table name in FROM clause.
e.g.
SELECT E.DEPTNO,
DNAME,EMPNO,ENAME,JOB,SAL FROM
EMPL E, DEPT D
WHERE E.DEPTNO
= D.DEPTNO
ORDER BY
E.DEPTNO;
In above command table alias for EMPL table is E and for DEPT table , alias is D.
NATURAL JOIN
By default, the results of an equijoin contain two identical columns. One of the two
identical columns can be eliminated by restating the query. This result is called a Natural
join.
empl.* means select all columns from empl table. This thing can be used with any table.
LEFT JOIN
- You can use LEFT JOIN clause in SELECT to produce
left join i.e.
- When using LEFT JOIN all rows from the first table will be returned whether there
are matches in the second table or not. For unmatched rows of first table, NULL is
shown in columns of second table.
S1 S2
Roll_no Name Roll_no Class
1 A 2 III
2 B 4 IX
3 C 1 IV
4 D 3 V
5 E 7 I
6 F 8 II
SELECT S1.ROLL_NO, NAME,CLASS
FROM S1 LEFT JOIN S2 ON S1.ROLL_NO=S2.ROLL_NO;
RIGHT JOIN
- It works just like LEFT JOIN but with table order reversed. All rows from the
second table are going to be returned whether or not there are matches in the
first table.
- You can use RIGHT JOIN in SELECT to produce right join i.e.
Assignment 5:
Integrate MySQL with Python by importing the MySQL module and add records of student and
display all the record.
Ans:
import os
import platform