MSC Data Science for Business Jannuary 2023

Database Management

Lab session 1 : SQL

We will rely on either sqliteonline.com

or Postgres in order to create and query relational databases.

Indications for Postgres installation are in the Moodle. With Postgres, you can use the psql
client in order to interact with the DBMS. To run the client nd the related icon in the
Postgres directory and launch it by double clicking on the icon.

The client will allow for interactions via a prompt (e.g., postgres=# ) allowing you for writing
and executing SQL commands. Observe that there is a ‘by-default’ database called
postgres to which you are initially connected.

Here is a list of useful psql commands, including \c to change the current database, after
you have created it with CREATE DATABASE dbname; .

• \q to quit pgsql;
• \l to obtain the list of available databases;
• \c to connect to a particular database;
• \d to have the list of tables in the current database;
• \d to describe a table (the table name must provided as the argument of the command,
e.g. \d egg for describing the egg table);
• \i le-adresss, to execute SQL commands stored in a separate le.
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1. 42part.
Find the names of suppliers who supply some red

2. Find the names of suppliers who supply some red or green part.

3. Find the sids of suppliers who supply some red part or are at Illinois.

4. Find the sids of suppliers who supply some red part and some green part.

5. Find the sids of suppliers who do not supply red parts.

6. Find the sids of suppliers who supply every part.

7. Find the sids of suppliers who supply every red part.

8. Find the sids of suppliers who supply every red or green part.

9. Find the sids of suppliers who supply every red part or supply every green part.

10. Find pairs of sids such that the supplier with the rst sid charges more for some part
than the supplier with the second sid.

11. Find the pids of parts supplied by at least two different suppliers.

12. Find the pids of the most expensive parts supplied by suppliers named Alien Aircaft
Inc.

13. Find for each supplier the most expensive part he/she supplies
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To create and ll the database please use the following commands in the next page.

In Postgres rst create a database named ‘tp’ for the exercise:

create database tp;

Then connect to that database:

\c tp;

With sqliteonline.com you run/execute directly commands in the SQL form.

And then execute the following commands one after the other :

create table suppliers(sid int primary key, sname text, address text);
create table parts(pid int primary key, pname text, color text);
create table catalog(sid int, pid int, cost real,
constraint pk_cat primary key(sid, pid),
constraint fk_sup foreign key(sid) references suppliers,
constraint fk_par foreign key(pid) references parts
);
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INSERT INTO parts (pid, pname, color) VALUES
(1,'Left Handed Bacon Stretcher Cover','Red'),
(2,'Smoke Shifter End','Black'),
(3,'Acme Widget Washer','Red'),
(4,'Acme Widget Washer','Silver'),
(5,'I Brake for Crop Circles Sticker','Translucent'),
(6,'Anti-Gravity Turbine Generator', 'Cyan'),
(7,'Anti-Gravity Turbine Generator',' Magenta'),
(8,'Fire Hydrant Cap','Red'),
(9,'7 Segment Display','Green');

INSERT INTO suppliers (sid, sname, address) VALUES

(1,'Acme Widget Suppliers','Illinois'),
(2,'Big Red Tool and Die','Oregon'),
(3,'Perfunctory Parts','Texas'),
(4,'Alien Aircaft Inc.','Nevada');

INSERT INTO catalog (sid, pid, cost) VALUES

(1,3,0.50),
(1,4,0.50),
(1,8,11.70),
(2,3,0.55),
(2,8,7.95),
(2,1,16.50),
(3,8,12.50),
(3,9,1.00),
(4,5,2.20),
(4,6,1247548.23),
(4,7,1247548.23);
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Appendix: Expected results for each query.

1- Find the names of suppliers who supply some red part.

sname

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Acme Widget Suppliers

Big Red Tool and Die

Perfunctory Parts

(3 rows)

2. Find the sids of suppliers who supply some red or green part.

sname

-----------------------

Acme Widget Suppliers

Big Red Tool and Die

Perfunctory Parts

(3 rows)

3.Find the sids of suppliers who supply some red part or are at Illinois.

sid

-----

(3 rows)
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4.Find the sids of suppliers who supply some red part and some green part.

sid

-----

(1 row)

5. Find the sids of suppliers who do not supply red parts.

sid

-----

(1 row)

6.Find the sids of suppliers who supply every part.

sid

-----

(0 rows)

7.Find the sids of suppliers who supply every red part.

sid

-----

(1 row)
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8. Find the sids of suppliers who supply every red or green part.

sid

-----

(0 rows)

9.Find the sids of suppliers who supply every red part or supply every green part.

sid

-----

(2 rows)

10. Find pairs of sids such that the supplier with the rst sid charges more for some part
than the supplier with the second sid.

sid_exp | sid_cheap
---------+-----------
2| 1
1| 2
3| 1
3| 2
(4 rows)
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11. Find the pids of parts supplied by at least two different suppliers.

pid

-----

(2 rows)

12. Find the pids of the most expensive parts supplied by suppliers named Alien Aircaft
Inc.

pid

-----

(2 rows)

13. Find for each supplier the most expensive part he/she supplies.

sname | pid | cost

-----------------------+-----+-------------

Acme Widget Suppliers | 8 | 11.7

Big Red Tool and Die | 1 | 16.5

Perfunctory Parts | 8| 12.5

Alien Aircaft Inc. | 6 | 1.24755e+06

Alien Aircaft Inc. | 7 | 1.24755e+06

(5 rows)