My SQL Worksheet-1

(DDL – Database Related commands)

1. If a database "Employee" exists, which MySql command helps you to start working in
that database?

Use Employee
2. Write MySql command will be used to open an already existing database "LIBRARY".
Use LIBRARY

3. Write MySql command to open an existing database.

Use

4. What does SQL stand for? What is MySQL?

Structured Query Language

5. Write two examples of DBMS software.

M.S. Access, Oracle, SQL, SQLITE

6. Sharmila wants to make the database named ‘COMPANY’ active. Write MySQL
commands for it.
Create database COMPANY

7. What is MySQL ?

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Oracle that is

based on structured query language (SQL).

8. What is the relationship between SQL and MySQL ?

SQL is a query programming language that manages RDBMS. MySQL is a relational database
management system that uses SQL. SQL is primarily used to query and operate database systems.
MySQL allows you to handle, store, modify and delete data and store data in an organized way.
9. Mention any two example of common Database Management System.
M.S. Access, Oracle, SQL, SQLITE
10 Suggest Archana suitable command for the following purpose:
. i. To display the list of the database already existing in MySQL.
ii. To use the database named City.
iii. To remove the pre-existing database named Clients.
i. use
ii. use City
iii drop database Clients

11 Write the command to display the name of the active database.

.
Use
12 Write the command to create a new database “School”
.
Use School

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My SQL Worksheet-2
(DDL – Table Related commands excluding Alter table)
1. Write an SQL query to create the table 'Menu' with the following structure:

Create table Menu( ItemCode varchar(5) primary key, ItemName varchar(20), Category
varchar(20), Price decimal(5,2));
2. Can a table have multiple primary keys? Can it have multiple foreign keys?
Yes, we can have multiple primary key and foreign keys also.

3. In a Student table, out of Roll Number, Name, Address which column can be set as Primary
key and why?
Roll number should be a primary key because we can have only unique value in roll
number.
4. Ms. Mirana wants to remove the entire content of a table "BACKUP" alongwith its structure
to release the storage space. What MySql statement should she use ?
Drop table BACKUP
5. Write MySql command to create the Table STOCK including its Constraints.
Table STOCK :

Create table STOCK(Id decimal(4) primary key, Name varchar(20), Company varchar(20),
Price decimal(8));

6. Write one similarity and one difference between CHAR and VARCHAR data types.
The fundamental difference between CHAR and VARCHAR is that the CHAR data type is fixed in
length, while the VARCHAR data type supports variable-length columns of data.
7. Saumya had previously created a table named ‘Product’ in a database using MySQL. Later
on she forgot the table structure. Suggest her suitable MySQL command through which
she can check the structure of the already created table.
Desc product;

8. Roli wants to list the names of all the tables in her database named ‘Gadgets’. Which
command (s) she should use to get the desired result.
Show tables
9. Name the SQL commands used to :
(i) Physically delete a table from the database.
(ii) Display the structure of a table.
i. Drop table tablename
ii. Desc tablename
10 Write one similarity and one difference between UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints.
.
Column with both the constraints will only take unique values. Difference: Column with
Primary key constraints will not be able to hold NULL values while Column with Unique
constraints will be able to hold NULL values.
11 An attribute A of datatype varchar(20) has the value “Amit” . The attribute B of datatype

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. char(20) has value ”Karanita” . How many characters are occupied in attribute A ? How
many characters are occupied in attribute B?
Attribute A has occupied 4 characters and attribute occupied 20 characters.
12 Mrs. Sharma is the classteacher of Class ‘XII A’ She wants to create a table ‘Student’
. to store details of her class.
i) Which of the following can be the attributes of Student table?
a) RollNo b) “Amit” c) Name d) 25
ii) Name the Primary key of the table ‘Student’. State reason for choosing it.
i. Rollno and Name
ii. Rollno: because it will contain unique value.
13 Write SQL query to create a table ‘Player’ with the following structure:
.

14 Anita has created the following table with the name ‘Order’.
.

One of the rows inserted is as follows :

(i) What is the data type of columns OrderId and OrderDate in the table Order ?
(ii) Anita is now trying to insert the following row :

i. OrderId: char, OrderDate: date

Will she be able to successfully insert it ? Give reason.

No, she will not be able to insert it due to we have not null constraints in OrderDate
Column.

15 Write SQL query to create a table ‘Event’ with the following structure :
. Field Type Constraint
EventId Varchar(5) PRIMARY KEY
EventName Varchar(30) NOT NULL
Location Varchar(50)
ClientID Integer
EventDate Date
Create table Event(EventId varchar(5) primary key, EventName varchar(30), Location
varchar(50), ClientID int, EventDate date);

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16 Observe the given table carefully and answer the following questions:
.

i. Name the column that might have a Primary Key constraint. Justify your answer.
ii. Name the column that might have a Unique constraint. Justify your answer.
i. PanNo: Because it will contain unique number to identify unique record.
ii. Phoneno: Phoneno can be a unique constraint due to unique value.
17 “ABC” Event Management Company requires data of events that are to be organized.
. Write SQL query to create a table ‘Event’ with the following structure :

Create table Event(EventId int primary key, Event varchar(50), DateEvent date,
NumPerformers int);
18 suggest her suitable command for the following purpose:
. i. To display the list of the database already existing in MySQL.
ii. To use the database named City.
iii. To remove the pre-existing database named Clients.
iv. To remove all the records of the table named “Club” at one go along with its
structure permanently.
i. Show databases;
ii. Use City;
iii. Drop database Clients;
iv. Drop table Club;
19 While creating a table named “Employee”, Mr. Rishi got confused as which data type he
. should choose for the column “EName” out of char and varchar. Help him in choosing the
right data type to store employee name. Give valid justification for the same.
EName: varchar, because we can have any number of characters in Ename field
contents.
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My SQL Worksheet-3
(DDL – Alter Table commands)
1. Sahil created a table in Mysql. Later on he found that there should have been another
column in the table. Which command should he use to add another column to the table?
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 Alter command
2. While creating a table 'Customer' Simrita forgot to set the primary key for the table. Give
the statement which she should write now to set the column 'CustiD' as the primary key of
the table?
Alter table Customer add Custid char(4) primary key
3. Kuhu has already created a table ‘Hospital’ as shown below:

Now she wants to add a new column ‘Address’ to the above given table. Suggest suitable
MySQL command for the same.

4. Write SQL command to remove column named ‘Hobbies’ from a table named
‘Student’.

5. While creating the table Student last week, Ms. Sharma forgot to include the column
Game_Played. Now write a command to insert the Game_Played column with VARCHAR
data type and 30 size into the Student table?

6. Kunal created the following table with the name ‘Friends’ :

Table : Friends

FriendCode Name Hobbies

F101 Bijoy Swimming
F102 Abhinav Reading books
F103 Jyotsna Dancing
Now, Kunal wants to delete the ‘Hobbies’ column. Write the MySQL statement

7. Rashi wants to add another column ‘Hobbies’ with datatype and size as VARCHAR(50) in
the already existing table ‘Student’. She has written the following statement. However it
has errors. Rewrite the correct statement.
MODIFY TABLE Student Hobbies VARCHAR;

8. Ms. Shalini has just created a table named “Employee” containing columns
Ename, Department, Salary.
After creating the table, she realized that she has forgotten to add a primary key column
in the table. Help her in writing SQL command to add a primary key column empid. Also
state the importance of Primary key in a table.

9. While creating a table 'Customer' Simrita wrongly added a primary key constraint to the
field “CUSTNAME”. Now she wants to remove the primary key constraint from the
custname field. Help her in writing the correct command.

10 Mr. Akshat have added a not null constraint to the “name” field in “employees” table. But
. now he wants to remove that not null constraint. Write the command to delete the not
null constraint from name field.

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My SQL Worksheet-4
(DML – INSERT INTO commands)
1. Rama is not able to change a value in a column to NULL. What constraint did she specify
when she created the table?
NOT NULL
2. Consider the table RESULT given below.

Write command to insert a new row

6, "Mohan", 500, "English", 73, "Second"
Insert into RESULT values(6,‘Mohan’,500,’English’,73,’Second’);
3. Consider the Table SHOPPE given below.

To insert a new row in the table Shoppe

'110', 'Pizza' , 'Papa Jones', 120, "Kolkata", 50.0
Insert into SHOPPE values(110,’Pizza’,’Papa Jones’,120,’Kolkata’,50);
4. How is NULL value different from 0 (Zero) value?
NULL is undefined value so memory is not captured but in case of 0 because it a value it
will capture the memory.
5. Consider the following table named "GYM"

Add a new row for a new item in GYM with the details: "G107", "Vibro exerciser” ,21000,
“GTCFitness"
Insert into GYM values(‘G107’,’Vibro exerciser’,21000,’GTCFitness’)
6. What is meant by NULL value in MySQL?
NULL is undefined and it will not captured the value.
7. Rewrite the following SQL statement after correcting error(s). Underline the corrections
made.
INSERT IN STUDENT(RNO,MARKS) VALUE (5,78.5);
Insert into STUDENT(RNO,MARKS) values(5,78.5);
8. Rewrite the following SQL statement after correcting error(s). Underline the corrections
made.
INSERT IN EMP(EMPNO, SALES) VALUE (100, 20078.50);
Insert into EMP (EMPNO,SALES) value(100,20078.50);
9. Charvi is inserting “Sharma” in the “LastName” column of the “Emp” table but an error is
being displayed. Write the correct SQL statement.
INSERT INTO Emp(‘Sharma’)VALUES(LastName) ;
Insert into Emp(LastName) values(‘Sharma’);
10 Anita has created the following table with the name ‘Order’.
.

One of the rows inserted is as follows :

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 (i) What is the data type of columns OrderId and OrderDate in the table Order ?

OrderID – Char
OrderDate - Date
(ii) Anita is now trying to insert the following row :

Will she be able to successfully insert it ? Give reason.

No, she will not be able to successfully insert it due to NOT NULL Constraint in OrderDate.
11 In today’s digitized world with a need to store data electronically, it is very important to
. store the data in the databases. SQL is used to interact with the Database Management
System.
Classify the following commands according to their type :(DDL/DML)
i. INSERT INTO ii. ALTER TABLE
i. DML ii. DDL
12 Is NULL and 0(zero) same? Jusify your answer.
.

13 Write the full forms of the following:

. i. DDL ii. DML
Data definition language
Data manipulation language

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My SQL Worksheet-5
(DML – UPDATE and DELETE commands)
1. What is the purpose of DROP TABLE command in SOL? How is it different from DELETE
command?
Drop table will remove the table along with its structure. In delete command we can only
delete the records.
2. In a database we have "Product" as shown below :

Write the command To increase the Price of all the Products by 20.
Update product set price=price+20;
3. Write the UPDATE command to change “Sharma” to “Singh” in the “LastName” column in
the Employee table.
Update employee set LastName=’Singh’ where LastName=’Sharma’;
4. What is the use of UPDATE statement in SQL ? How is it different from ALTER statement?
We can update the records with the help of update statement by we can modify the
structure with the help of ALTER statement.
5. Consider the following table named "GYM"

Write command To change the Brandname to "Fit Trend India" of the item, whose ICODE as
"G101 ".
Update GYM set BRANDNAME=’Fit Trend India’ where ICODE=’G101’;
6. Write the UPDATE statement in MySQL to increase commission by 100.00 in the
‘‘Commission’’ column in the ‘Emp’ table.
Update emp set Commission=Commission+100;
7. Write two examples of DML commands of SQL.
Update, delete, selete, insert
8. In a database there are two tables ‘CD’ and ‘TYPE’ as shown below :

Write SQL statement to change the name of Singer ‘‘Sonvi Kumar’’ to ‘‘Sonvi Mehra’’ in all

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 the places wherever it occurs in CD table.
Update CD set singer=’Sonvi Mehra’ WHERE singer=’Sonvi Kumar’;

9. Consider the following table named “GARMENT”.

1) Write command To change the colour of garment with code as 116 to “Orange”.
2) Write command to increase the price of all XL garments by 10%
3) Write command to delete the record with GCode “116”
1. Update GARMENT set colour=’Orange’ where GCODE=116;
2. Update GARMENT set price=price+price*0.10 where size=’XL’;
3. Delete from GARMENT where GCode=116;
10. In a Database, there are two tables given below :

Write SQL command to change the JOBID to 104 of the Employee with ID as E4 in the table
‘EMPLOYEE’.
Update EMPLOYEE set JOBID=104 where EMPLOYEEID=’E4’;
11. In Marks column of ‘Student’ table, for Rollnumber 2, the Class Teacher entered the marks
as 45. However there was a totaling error and the student has got her marks increased by
5. Which MySQL command should she use to change the marks in ‘Student’ table.
UPDATE command.
12. Chhavi has created a table named Orders, she has been asked to increase the value of a
column named salesamount by 20. She has written the following query for the same.
Alter table Orders Add salesamount =salesamount+20;
Is it the correct query?Justify.
Update Order set salesamount=salesamount+20;
13. Consider the following table:
Table: PharmaDB

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Write commands in SQL to increase the price of “Amlodipine” by 50.
Update pharmaDB set price=price+50 where DrugName=’Amlodipine’;

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My SQL Worksheet-6
(DML – SELECT command)
1. Pooja, a students of class XI, created a table "Book". Price is a column of this table. To find
the details of books whose prices have not been entered she wrote the following query:
Select * from Book where Price = NULL;
Select *from Book where price is NULL;
2. The LastName column of a table "Directory" is given below:
Based on this information, find the output of the following
queries:
a) SELECT lastname FROM Directory WHERE lastname like
"_a%";

b)SELECT lastname FROM Directory WHERE lastname not

like "%a";
a. Batra
b. Sehgal
3. Consider the table TEACHER given below. Write commands in SQL for (1) to (3) and output
for (4)

i. To display all information about teachers of PGT category.

ii. To list the names of female teachers of Hindi department.
iii. To list names, departments and date of hiring of all the teachers in ascending order of
date of joining
iv. SELECT DISTINCT(category) FROM teacher;

4. The ltem_No and Cost columna of a table "ITEMS" are given below:
Based on this information, find the output of the following
queries:
a) SELECT COST +100 FROM ITEMS WHERE ITEM_NO > 103;

5. Consider the table Projects given below. Write commands in SOL for i) to iii) and output for
iv)

i. To display all information about projects of"Medium" ProjSize

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 ii. To list the ProjSize of projects whose ProjName ends with LITL.
iii. To list ID, Name, Size, and Cost of all the projects in descending order of StartDate.
iv. SELECT DISTINCT ProjSize FROM projects

6. The Mname Column of a table Members is given below :

Based on the information, find the output of the following
queries :
(i) Select Mname from members where mname like "%v" ;
(ii) Select Mname from members where mname like "%e%";

7. Sarthya, a student of class XI, created a table "RESULT". Grade is one of the column of this
table. To find the details of students whose Grades have not been entered, he wrote the
following MySql query, which did not give the desired result.
SELECT * FROM Result WHERE Grade= "Null";
Help Sarthya to run the query by removing the errors from the query and write the correct
Query.

8. Consider the table RESULT given below. Write commands in MySql for (i) to (ii)

(i) To list the names of those students,

who have obtained Division as FIRST in
the ascending order of NAME.
(ii) To display a report listing NAME,
SUBJECT and Annual stipend received
assuming that the stipend column has
monthly stipend.

9. Mr. Janak is using a table with following columns :

Name , Class , Course_Id, Course_name
He needs to display names of students, who have not been assigned any stream or have
been assigned Course_name that ends with "economics". He wrote the following command,
which did not give the desired result.
SELECT Name, Class FROM Students WHERE Course name = NULL OR Course
name="%economics";
Help Mr. J anak to run the query by removing the error and write the correct query.

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10. Consider the Table SHOPPE given below. Write command in MySql for (i) to (ii)

(i) To display names of the items whose name

starts with 'C' in ascending order of Price.
(ii) To display Code, Item name and City of the
products whose quantity is less than 100.

11. What is used in the SELECT clause to return all the columns in the table?

12. In MySQL, Sumit and Fauzia are getting the following outputs of ItemCodes for SELECT
statements used by them on a table named ITEM.(Both have used the SELECT statements
on the same table ITEM).
Sumit’s Output Fauzia’s Output
101 101
102 102
101 105
105 107
101
107
Which extra keyword has Fauzia used with SELECT statement to get the above output?

13. Consider the table ‘PERSONS’ given below. Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iv) and write
output for (v).

(i)
Display the SurNames, FirstNames
and Cities of people residing in
Udhamwara city.
(ii) Display the Person Ids (PID), cities
and Pincodes of persons in
descending order of Pincodes.
(iii) Display the First Names and cities of
all the females getting Basic salaries
above 40000.
(iv) Display First Names and Basic
Salaries of all the persons whose
firstnames starts with “G”.
(v) SELECT Surname FROM Persons Where BasicSalary>=50000;

14. Mr. Tondon is using table EMP with the following columns.
ECODE,DEPT,ENAME,SALARY
He wants to display all information of employees (from EMP table) in ascending order of
ENAME and within it in ascending order of DEPT. He wrote the following command, which
did not show the desired output.
SELECT * FROM EMP ORDER BY NAME DESC,DEPT;
Rewrite the above query to get the desired output.
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15. Consider the following table named "GYM" with details about fitness items being sold in the
store. Write command of SQL for (i) to (ii).

(i) To display the names of all the items whose name

starts with "A".
(ii) To display ICODEs and INAMEs of all items, whose
Brandname is Reliable or Coscore.

16. Consider the following table named 'SBOP" with details of account holders. Write
commands of MySql for (i) to (ii) and output for (iii).

(i) To display Accountno, Name and DateOfopen of

account holders having transactions more than 8.
(ii) To display all information of account holders whose
transaction value is not mentioned.
(iii) SELECT NAME,BALANCE FROM SBOP WHERE NAME
LIKE “%i”;

17. When using the LIKE clause, which wildcard symbol represents any sequence of none, one
or more characters ?

18. Consider the table FLIGHT given below. Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iv) and output for
(v).

(i) Display details of all flights starting from Delhi.

(ii) Display details of flights that have more than 4 number of flights operating.
(iii) Display flight codes, starting place, destination, number of flights in descending order
of number of flights.
(iv) Display destinations along with flight codes of all the destinations starting with ‘A’.
(v) SELECT DISTINCT(NO_STOPS) FROM FLIGHT;

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19. What will be the output of the following queries on the basis of Employee table:

(i) Select Salary+100 from Employee where EmpId='A002';

20. Pranay, who is an Indian, created a table named “Friends” to store his friend’s detail.
Table “Friends” is shown
below. Write commands in
SQL for (i) to (iii) and output
for (iv).

i. To display list of all

foreigner friends.
ii. To list name, city and country in descending order of age.
iii. To list name and city of those friends who don’t have an email id.
iv. Select name,country from friends where age>12 and name like ‘A%’;

21. Consider the following table named “GARMENT”. Write command of SQL for (i)
to (iv) and output for (v) to (vii).
(i) To display names of those garments that are
available in ‘XL’ size.
(ii) To display codes and names of those
garments that have their names starting with
‘Ladies’.
(iii) To display garment names, codes and
prices of those garments that have
price in the range 1000.00 to 1500.00 (both
1000.00 and 1500.00 included).
(iv) SELECT GNAME FROM GARMENT WHERE
SIZE IN (‘M’, ‘L’) AND PRICE > 1500;

22. Consider the table ‘empsalary’.

To select tuples with some salary ,Siddharth has written the following
erroneous SQL
statement:
SELECT ID, Salary FROM empsalary WHERE Salary = something;

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23. Consider the table ‘Employee’.
Write the SQL command to obtain the following output :

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24. Table “Emp” is shown below. Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iii) and output for (iv) and
(v)
and (vi)
i. To display list of all employees below 25
years old.
ii. To list names and respective salaries in
descending order of salary.
iii. To list names and addresses of those
persons who have ‘Delhi’ in their address.
iv. SELECT Name, Salary FROM Emp where
salary between 50000 and 70000;
v. SELECT Name, phone from emp where
phone like ‘99%’;

25. Mrs. Sen entered the following SQL statement to display all Salespersons of the
cities “Chennai” and ‘Mumbai’ from the table ‘Sales’.
Scode Name City SELECT * FROM Sales WHERE
101 Aakriti Mumbai City=‘Chennai’ AND
City=‘Mumbai’;
102 Aman Chennai
103 Banit Delhi
104 Fauzia Mumbai
Rewrite the correct statement, if wrong or write statement is correct.

26. Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iii) and output for (iv).
Table : Store
StoreId Name Location City NoOfEmployee DateOpene SalesAmou
S101 Planetfashio KarolBagh Delhi 7 2015-10-16 300000
S102 Trends Nehru Mumbai 11 2015-08-09 400000
Nagar
S103 Vogue Vikas Delhi 10 2015-06-27 200000
Vihar
S104 Superfashio Defence Delhi 8 2015-02-18 450000
n Colony
S105 Rage Bandra Mumbai 5 2015-09-22 600000
(i) To display name, location, city, SalesAmount of stores in descending order of
SalesAmount.
(ii) To display names of stores along with SalesAmount of those stores that have ‘fashion’
anywhere in their store names.
(iii) To display Stores names, Location and Date Opened of stores that were opened before
1st March, 2015.
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 (iv) SELECT distinct city FROM store;

27. Which clause would you use with Select to achieve the following:
i.To select the values that match with any value in a list of specified values.
ii.Used to display unrepeated values of a column from a table.

28. Consider the following table:

Table: PharmaDB
Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iii) and
output for (iv):
i. To increase the price of “Amlodipine” by
50.
ii. To display all those medicines whose
price is in the range 100 to 150.
iii. To display the Drug ID, DrugName and
Pharmacy Name of all the records in
descending order of their price.
iv. SELECT RxID, DrugName, Price from PharmaDB where PharmacyName IN (“Rx
Parmacy”, “Raj Medicos”);

29. Write SQL statement that gives the same output as the following SQL statement but uses
‘IN’ keyword.
SELECT NAME FROM STUDENT WHERE STATE = ‘VA’ ;

30. Which one of the following SQL queries will display all Employee records containing the
word “Amit”, regardless of case (whether it was stored as AMIT, Amit, or amit etc.) ?
(i) SELECT * from Employees WHERE EmpName like UPPER ‘%AMIT%’;
(ii) SELECT *from Employees WHERE EmpName like ‘%AMIT%’ or ‘%AMIT%’ OR ‘%amit%’;
(iii) SELECT * from Employees WHERE UPPER (EmpName) like ‘%AMIT%’;

31. Write Answer to (i). Write SQL queries for (ii) to (vii).

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 Note : Columns SID and DOB contain Sales Person Id and Data of Birth respectively.
(i) Write the data types of SID and DOB columns.
(ii) Display names of Salespersons and their Salaries who have salaries in the range
30000.00 to 40000.00
(iii) To list Names, Phone numbers and DOB (Date of Birth) of Salespersons who were born
before 1st November, 1992.
(iv) To display Names and Salaries of Salespersons in descending order of salary.
(v) To display areas in which Salespersons are working. Duplicate Areas should not be
displayed.
(vi) To display SID, Names along with Salaries increased by 500. (Increase of 500 is only to
be displayed and not to be updated in the table)
(vii) To display Names of Salespersons who have the word ‘Kumar’ anywhere in their
names.

32. Write the following statement using ‘OR’ logical operator :

SELECT first_name, last_name, subject FROM studentdetailsWHERE subject IN (‘Maths’,
‘Science’);

33. Consider the Table “Gym” shown below. Write commands in SQL for (i) to (vi) :

(i) To display Mname, Age, FeeGiven of those members whose fee is above 12,000.
(ii) To display Mcode, Mname, Age of all female members of the Gym with age in
descending order.
(iii) To list names of members and their date of admission of those members who joined
after 31st December, 2015.
iv) To display the Mname, FeeGiven of all those members of the Gym whose age is less
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 than 40 and are monthly type members of the Gym.
(v) To display names of members who have ‘mit’ anywhere in their names. For example :
Amit, Samit.
(vi) To display types of memberships available. Duplicate values should not be displayed.

34. Consider the following table:

Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iv) and
output for (v):
i. To display the details of all those students
who have IP as their optional subject.
ii. To display name, stream and optional
of all those students whose name starts with
‘A’.
iii. To give an increase of 3 in the average
of all those students of humanities section who
have Maths as their optional subject.
iv. To display a name list of all those
students who have average more than 75.
v. Select name from students where optional IN (‘CS’,’IP’);

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My SQL Worksheet-7
(Single Row Functions)
1. Write the output of the following SQL queries:
a) SELECT ROUND(6.5675, 2);
b) SELECT TRUNCATE(5.3456, 1);
c) SELECT DAYOFMONTH('2009-08-25');
d) SELECT MID('Class 12', 2,3);
2. Write the output of the following SQL queries :
(i) SELECT INSTR(‘UNICODE’,’CO’);
(ii) SELECT RIGHT(‘Informatics’,3);

3. State difference between date functions NOW( ) and SYSDATE( ) of MySql.

4. Name a function of MySql which is used to remove trailing and leading spaces from a string.

5. Consider the following table named 'SBOP" with details of account holders. Write output

(i) SELECT ROUND(Balance,-3) FROM SBOP WHERE

AccountNo=”SB-5”;

6. Write the output of the following SQL queries :

(i) SELECT RIGHT(‘software’, 2);
(ii) SELECT INSTR(‘twelve’,‘lv’);
(iii) SELECT DAYOFMONTH(‘2014-03-01’);
(iv) SELECT ROUND(76.987, 2);
7. Write the output of the following SQL queries:
i. SELECT INSTR(‘INTERNATIONAL’, ‘NA’);
ii. SELECT LENGTH(CONCAT(‘NETWORK’,’ING’));
iii.SELECT ROUND(563.345,-2);
iv. SELECT DAYOFYEAR(‘2014-01-30’);
8. Pranay, who is an Indian, created a table named “Friends” to store his friend’s detail.
Table “Friends” is shown below. Write output for (i) and (ii).

i. Select ucase(concat(name,”*”,city)) from friends where country like ‘Denmark’;

ii. Select mid(name,1,4) as “UID” from friends where country like ‘USA’;

9. Write the output of the following SQL queries:

i) SELECT TRUNCATE(8.975,2);
ii) SELECT MID(‘HONESTY WINS’,3,4);

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 iii) SELECT RIGHT(CONCAT(‘PRACTICES’,’INFORMATICS’),5);
iv) SELECT DAYOFMONTH(‘2015-01-16’);
10. Write the output of the following SQL queries :
(i) SELECT MID(‘BoardExamination’,2,4);
(ii) SELECT ROUND(67.246,2);
(iii) SELECT INSTR(‘INFORMATION FORM’,‘FOR’);
(iv) SELECT DAYOFYEAR(‘2015-01-10’);
11. Write output.
Table : Store
StoreI Name Locatio City NoOfEmploye DateOpen SalesAmou
S101 Planetfashi KarolBa Delhi 7 2015-10- 300000
S102 Trends Nehru Mumb 1 2015-08- 400000
Nagar ai 1 09
S103 Vogue Vikas Delhi 1 2015-06- 200000
Vihar 0 27
S104 Superfashio Defence Delhi 8 2015-02- 450000
n Colony 18
S105 Rage Bandra Mumb 5 2015-09- 600000
(i) SELECT Name, length (name), left (name, 3) FROM Store where NoOfEmployees<3;

12. Write the output of the following SQL queries:

SELECT POW(INSTR(‘My_Database’,’_’),2);
13. Consider the table given below :
Write output.

(i) SELECT Name, LENGTH(Name) FROM

Salesperson;

14. Identify Single Row functions of MySQL amongst the following :

TRIM(), MAX(), COUNT(*), ROUND()

15. Consider the Table “Gym” and write output

(i) SELECT MID(Mname,1,2)from Gym;

16. Observe the given table named “Loan”

carefully and predict the output of the
following queries:
i. SELECT concat(left(file_no,2),
right(cust_name,2)) AS “ID” from
loan where Bank='ICUCI Ltd.';
ii. select round(loan_amt-
loan_amt*10/100) As "Discounted
Payment" from loan where
loan_amt>700000;

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My SQL Worksheet-8
(Aggregate Functions)
1. Consider the table TEACHER given below. Write commands in SQL for (1) and output for (2) to (5)

i. To count the number of teachers in English department.

ii. SELECT MAX(Hiredate) FROM Teacher;
iii. SELECT DISTINCT(category) FROM teacher;
iv. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TEACHER WHERE Category = "PGT"
v. SELECT Gender,AVG(Salary) FROM TEACHER group by Gender;

2. The ltem_No and Cost column of a table "ITEMS" are given below:
Based on this information, find the output of the following
queries:
a) SELECT AVG(COST) FROM ITEMS;
b) SELECT COST +100 FROM ITEMS WHERE ITEM_NO > 103;

3. "PrincipaiName" is a column in a table "Schools". The SOL queries

SELECT count(*) FROM Schools;
and
SELECT count( Principal) FROM schools;
Give the result 28 and 27 respectively. What may be the possible reason for this? How many records
are present in the table-27 or 28?

4. Consider the table Projects given below. Write commands in SOL fori) and output for i) to iii)

i. To count the number of projects of cost less than 100000.

ii. SELECT SUM(Cost) FROM projects;
iii. SELECT ProjSize, COUNT(*) FROM Projects GROUP BY ProjSize;

5. Consider the table RESULT given below. Write

output

(i) SELECT AVG(Stipend) FROM EXAM WHERE

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 DIVISION= "THIRD”;
(ii) SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Subject) FROM EXAM;
(iii) SELECT MIN(Average) FROM EXAM WHERE Subject= "English";

6. What is the purpose of ORDER BY clause in MySql ? How is it different from GROUP BY clause?

7. Consider the Table SHOPPE given below. Write command in

MySql for (i) and output for (ii) to (iii).

(i) To count distinct Company from the table.

(ii) Select Count(distinct (City)) from Shoppe;
(iii) Select MIN (Qty) from Shoppe where City="Mumbai";

8. Consider the table ‘PERSONS’ given below. Write commands in SQL for (i) to (iv) and write output for
(i) to (iii).

(i) SELECT SUM(BasicSalary) FROM Persons

Where Gender=’F’;
(ii) SELECT Gender,MIN(BasicSalary) FROM
Persons GROUP BY gender;
(iii) SELECT Gender,Count(*) FROM Persons
GROUP BY Gender;

9. There is a column HOBBY in a Table CONTACTS. The following two statements are giving different
outputs. What may be the possible reason ?
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM CONTACTS;
SELECT COUNT(HOBBY)FROM CONTACTS;

10. Consider the following table named "GYM" with details about
fitness items being sold in the store. Write output

(i) SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT (BRANDNAME) ) FROM GYM;

(ii) SELECT MAX (PRICE ) FROM GYM;

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11. Consider the following table named 'SBOP" with details of
account holders. Write output.

(i) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SBOP;

12. Given ‘Employee’ table as follows :

What values will the following statements return ?

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Employee;
SELECT COUNT(Commission) FROM Employee;
13. Consider the table FLIGHT given below. Write output.

(i) SELECT MAX(NO_FLIGHTS) FROM FLIGHT;

(ii) SELECT START, COUNT(*) FROM FLIGHT GROUP
BY Start;

14. What will be the output of the following queries on the basis of
Employee table:

(i)Select avg(Salary) from Employee;

(ii) Select Salary+100 from Employee where EmpId='A002';

15. Consider the following table named “GARMENT”. Write

output

(i) SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT (SIZE)) FROM GARMENT;

(ii) SELECT AVG (PRICE) FROM GARMENT;

16. Consider the table ‘Teacher’ given below.

What will be the output of the following queries on the
basis of the above table:

(i)Select count(Department) from Teacher;

(ii)Select count(*) from Teacher;

17. (i) Name two Aggregate (Group) functions of SQL.

(ii) Consider the table :
Table : Company What output will be displayed by the
SID SALES following SQL statement ?
SELECT AVG(SALES) FROM Company;
S101 20000
S103 NULL
S104 10000
S105 15000

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18. Consider the table ‘Hotel’ given below :
Table : Hotel Mr. Vinay wanted to display average
EMPID Category Salary salary of each Category. He entered the
following SQL statement. Identify error(s)
E101 MANAGER 60000
and Rewrite the correct SQL statement.
E102 EXECUTIVE 65000 SELECT Category, Salary FROM Hotel
E103 CLERK 40000 GROUP BY Category;
E104 MANAGER 62000
E105 EXECUTIVE 50000
E106 CLERK 35000
19. Explain why the following queries give different outputs on execution:
i. SELECT COUNT(ENAME) FROM EMP;
Output: 5
ii. SELECT Count(*) FROM EMP;
Output: 8

20. Kunal has entered the following SQL command on Table ‘STUDENT’ that has TotalMarks as one of the
columns.
SELECT COUNT (*) FROM STUDENT;
The output displayed is 20.
Then, Kunal enters the following command :
SELECT COUNT (*) FROM STUDENT WHERE TotalMarks <100;
The output displayed is 15.
Then, Kunal enters the following command :
SELECT COUNT (*) FROM STUDENT WHERE TotalMarks >= 100;
He predicts the output of the above query as 5. Do you agree with Kunal ? Give reason for your
answer.

21. Consider the table given below :

Write command for (i) and output for (ii)
(i) To display Area along with number of Salespersons
working in that area.
(ii) SELECT Area, COUNT (*) FROM Salesperson GROUP
BY Area HAVING COUNT (*) > 1;

22. Observe the given table named “Loan” carefully

and predict the output of the
following queries:
select count(file_no)-count(loan_amt) from loan;

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My SQL Worksheet-9
(Joins)
1. In a database there are two tables 'Customer' and 'Bill' as shown below:

(i) How many rows and how many columns will be there in the Cartesian product of these two
tables?
(ii) Which column in the 'Bill' table is the foreign key?

2. Consider the tables HANDSETS and CUSTOMER given below:

With reference to these tables, Write commands in SQL for (i) and (ii) and output for (iii) below:
(i) Display the CustNo, CustAddress and corresponding SetName for each customer.
(ii) Display the Customer Details for each customer who uses a Nokia handset.
(iii) select SetNo, SetName from Handsets, customer where SetNo = SetCode and CustAddress =
'Delhi';

3. In a database there are two tables "Company" and "Model" as shown below:

(i) Identify the foreign key column in the table Model.

(ii) Check every value in CompiD column of both the tables. Do you find any discrepancy?

4. Consider the tables DOCTORS and PATIENTS given below:

W1th reference to these tables, wnte commands m SQL for (1) and (II) and output for (iii) below:
(i) Display the PatNo, PatName and corresponding DocName for each patient
(ii) Display the list of all patients whose OPD_Days are MWF.
(iii) select OPD_Days, Count(*) from Doctors, Patients where Patients.Department =
Doctors.Department Group by OPD_Days;

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5. In a database there are two tables "Product" and "Client" as shown below :

Write the commands in SQL queries for the following :

(i) To display the details of Product whose Price is in the range of 40 and 120 (Both values included)
(ii) To display the ClientName, City from table Client and ProductName and Price from table
Product, with their corresponding matching P ID.
(iii) To increase the Price of all the Products by 20.

6. In a. Database School there are two tables Member and Division as show below.

(i) Identify the foreign key in the table Member.

(ii) What output, you will get, when an equi-join query is executed to get the NAME from Member
Table and corresponding DivName from Division table ?

7. In a Database there are two tables :

Table ITEM:

Write MySql queries for the following :

(i) To display ICode, IName and corresponding Brand of those Items, whose Price is between 20000
and 45000 (both values inclusive).
(ii) To display ICode, Price and BName, of the item which has IName as "Television".
(iii) To increase the price of all the Items by 15%.

8. In a Database there are two tables :

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 Table MAGAZINE:

(i) Which column can be set as the PRIMARY KEY in the MAGAZINE table?
(ii) Which column in the ‘MAGAZINE’ table is the foreign key?
(iii) How many rows and columns will be there in the Cartesian product of the above 2 tables.
(iv) Write command in SQL to display the mag_code, Mag_Title and corresponding types for all the
Magazines.
(v) Write the output :
(vi) Select Mag_Code, Mag_Title, Number_of_Pages, Type From MAGAZINE,MAGTYPE Where
Magazine.Mag_Category=Magtype.Mag_Category and Type=’Spiritual’;

9. In a Database Kamataka_Sangam there are two tables with the instances given below :

Write SQL queries for the following :

(i) To count how many addresses are not having NULL values in the address column of students
table.
(ii) To display Name, Class from STUDENT table and the corresponding Grade from SPORTS table.
(iii) To display Name of the student and their corresponding Coachnames from STUDENTS and
SPORTS tables.

10. In a Database Multiplexes, there are two tables with the following data. Write MySQL queries for (i)
to (iii), which are based on TicketDetails and AgentDetails :

(i) To display Tcode, Name and Aname of all the records where the number of tickets sold is more
than 5.
(ii) To display total number of tickets booked by agent “Mr. Ayush”
(iii) To display Acode, Aname and corresponding Tcode where Aname ends with “k”.
(iv) With reference to “TicketDetails” table, which column is the primary key ? Which column is the
foreign key? Give reason(s)

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11. In a database there are two tables ‘CD’ and ‘TYPE’ as shown below :

(i) Name the Primary key in ‘‘CD’’ table.

(ii) Name the foreign key in ‘‘CD’’ table.
(iii) Write the Cardinality and Degree of ‘‘TYPE’’ table.
(iv) Check every value in CATEGORY column of both the tables. Do you find any discrepancy ? State
the discrepancy.

13. Consider the tables ‘Flights’ & ‘Fares’ given below:

Flights
FNO SOURCE DEST NO_OF_FL NO_OF_STO
P
IC301 MUMBAI BANGALORE 3 2
IC799 BANGALORE KOLKATA 8 3
MC101 DELHI VARANASI 6 0
IC302 MUMBAI KOCHI 1 4
AM812 LUCKNOW DELHI 4 0
MU499 DELHI CHENNAI 3 3
Fares
FNO AIRLINES FARE TAX
IC301 Indian Airlines 9425 5
IC799 Spice Jet 8846 10
MC101 Deccan Airlines 4210 7
IC302 Jet Airways 13894 5
AM812 Indian Airlines 4500 6
MU499 Sahara 12000 4
With reference to these tables, write commands in SQL for (i) and (ii) and output for (iii)
below:
i. To display flight number, source, airlines of those flights where fare is less than Rs.
10000.
ii. To count total no of Indian Airlines flights starting from various cities.
iii. SELECT FLIGHTS.FNO, NO_OF_FL, AIRLINES FROM FLIGHTS,FARES WHERE FLIGHTS.FNO =
FARES.FNO AND SOURCE=’DELHI’;

14. A table STUDENT has 5 rows and 3 columns. Table ACTIVITY has 4 rows and 2
columns. What will be the cardinality and degree of the Cartesian product of
them ?

15. Consider the following table named “GARMENT”.

What is the degree and cardinality of ‘Garment’ table ?

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16. In a Database, there are two tables given below :

Write SQL Queries for the following :

(i) To display employee ids, names of employees, job ids with corresponding job titles.
(ii) To display names of employees, sales and corresponding job titles who have achieved sales
more than 1300000.
(iii) To display names and corresponding job titles of those employee who have ‘SINGH’ (anywhere)
in their names.
(iv) Identify foreign key in the table EMPLOYEE.

17. Consider the tables given below.

Salesperson Orders

i. The SalespersonId column in the "Salesperson" table is the KEY.The

SalespersonId column in the "Orders" table is a KEY.
ii. Can the ‘SalespersonId’ be set as the primary key in table ‘Orders’. Give reason.

18. With reference to the above given tables, Write commands in SQL for (i) and
(ii) and output for (iii) below:
i. To display SalespersonID, names, orderids and order amount of all salespersons.
ii. To display names ,salespersons ids and order ids of those sales persons whose names
start with ‘A’ and sales amount is between 15000 and 20000.
iii. SELECT Salesperson.SalespersonId, name, age, amount FROM Salesperson, orders
WHERE Salesperson.salespersonId= Orders.salespersonId AND AGE BETWEEN 30 AND
45;

19. Consider the tables given below :

Table : Faculty
TeacherId Name Address State PhoneNumber
T101 Savita Sharma A-151, Adarsh Delhi 991019564
Nagar
T102 Deepak Ghai K-5/52, Vikas Mumbai 893466448
Vihar
T103 MahaLakshmi D-6 Delhi 981166568
T104 Simi Arora Mumbai 658777564
Table : Course
CourseId Subject TeacherId Fee
C101 Introductory Mathematics T101 4500
C103 Physics T101 5000
C104 Introductory Computer Science T102 4000

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(i) Which column is used to relate the two tables ?
(ii) Is it possible to have a primary key and a foreign key both in one table ? Justify your answer
with the help of table given above.

20. With reference to the above given tables, write commands in SQL for (i) and (ii)
and output for (iii) :
(i) To display CourseId, TeacherId, Name of Teacher, Phone Number of Teachers living in Delhi.
(ii) To display TeacherID, Names of Teachers, Subjects of all teachers with names of Teachers
starting with ‘S’.
(iii) SELECT CourseId, Subject,Course.TeacherId,Name,PhoneNumber FROM
Faculty,Course WHERE Faculty.TeacherId = Course.TeacherId AND Fee>=5000;

21. Consider the tables given below which are linked with each other and maintains referential
integrity:
Table: SAP

Table : Store

With reference to the above given tables, write commands in SQL for (i) and (ii) and output for (iii)
below:
i. To display the ItemCode,ItemName and ReceivedDate of all the items .
ii. To display SAPID,ItemName,ItemStorageLocation of all the items whose Received date is
after 2nd May 2016.
iii. SELECT SAPID,ItemName,STOREID FROM SAP,Store WHERE
SAP.ItemCode=Store.ItemCode AND StoreLocation = “Hauz Khas”
iv. What will be the degree and cardinality of the cartesian product formed while combining
both the above given tables ‘SAP’ and ‘Store’ ?
v. Sangeeta is not able to add a new record in the table ‘Store’ through the following query:
Insert into store values (1206,1006,’Karol Bagh’, ‘2016/07/25’);
Identify the error if there is any

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 Informatics Practices
My SQL Worksheet-10
(Transaction)
1. Which command is used in MySql to make the changes in database permanent?

2. Give one difference between ROLLBACK and COMMIT commands used in MySql.

3. A table named ‘GAMES’ has the following contents:

Write the output that will be displayed by statements (i) and (ii).
SELECT * FROM GAMES;
SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0;
INSERT INTO GAMES VALUES(105,'CHESS’,2,9000);
ROLLBACK;
SAVEPOINT S1;
SELECT * FROM GAMES; ------------ (i)
INSERT INTO GAMES VALUES(108,'LAWN TENNIS’,4,25000);
SAVEPOINT S2;
INSERT INTO GAMES VALUES(109,'CRICKET’,11,20000);
ROLLBACK TO S2;
SELECT * FROM ITEM; ------------ (ii)
4. Consider the Stu table

The following SQL queries are executed on the above table

INSERT INTO Stu VALUES(5,'Gagan'); COMMIT;

UPDATE Stu SET name='Abhi' WHERE Rollno = 4

SAVEPOINT A;
INSERT INTO Stu VALUES(6,'Chris'); SAVEPOINT B;
INSERT INTO Stu VALUES(7,'Babita'); SAVEPOINT C;

ROLLBACK TO B;
What will be the output of the following SQL query now:
SELECT * FROM Stu;

5. Given below is the ‘Stu’ table :

RNO NAME
1 Amit
2 Bhishm
The following statements are entered :
SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0;
INSERT INTO Stu VALUES(5, ‘Rahul’); COMMIT;
UPDATE Stu set name=‘Rahuliya’ where Rno= 5; SAVEPOINT A;
INSERT INTO Stu VALUES(6, ‘Cristina’); SAVEPOINT B;
INSERT INTO Stu VALUES(7, ‘Fauzia’); SAVEPOINT C;
ROLLBACK TO B;
Now what will be the output of the following statement ?
SELECT * FROM Stu;

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6. Geetanjali had created a table “Customer” in the database “Test”. Immediately after the successful
creation of the database, she wrote the Rollback command to undo the creation of the table. Did
she execute rollback successfully? Explain.

7. Given below is the ‘Department’ table :

SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0;
UPDATE Department SET DEPNAME = ‘OFFICE’ WHERE DEPNAME
=
‘ADMIN’;
INSERT INTO Department VALUES (104, ‘HRD’);
UPDATE Department SET DEPNAME = ‘FRONT OFFICE’ WHERE
DEPNAME = ‘RECEPTION’;
COMMIT;
DELETE FROM Department WHERE DEPNAME = ‘FRONT OFFICE’;
ROLLBACK;
SELECT * FROM Department;
What will be the output of the above given SELECT statement ?

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