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The document outlines SQL scenario-based questions focusing on retrieving data from tables using various SQL clauses. It explains how to use ORDER BY and LIMIT to get the top 5 highest-paid employees, GROUP BY to calculate total salaries per department, HAVING to filter departments with total salaries over 100,000, and the UNION and UNION ALL operators to combine datasets. Each section includes example queries to illustrate the concepts discussed.

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SQL Scenario Questions

The document outlines SQL scenario-based questions focusing on retrieving data from tables using various SQL clauses. It explains how to use ORDER BY and LIMIT to get the top 5 highest-paid employees, GROUP BY to calculate total salaries per department, HAVING to filter departments with total salaries over 100,000, and the UNION and UNION ALL operators to combine datasets. Each section includes example queries to illustrate the concepts discussed.

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SQL SCENARIO

BASED QUESTIONS
PART-3
You need to retrieve the top 5 highest-paid
employees from the employees table.
Question:
How would you use the ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses to get
the top records?

The ORDER BY clause sorts the data, and the LIMIT clause
restricts the number of rows returned. To retrieve the top 5
highest-paid employees, you need to sort the salary in
descending order and use LIMIT 5.
For Example:

This query will display the top 5 employees by salary.


You want to calculate the total salary for
each department.
Question:
How can you use the GROUP BY clause to aggregate data?

The GROUP BY clause groups rows with the same values,


allowing aggregate functions like SUM() to be applied to each
group. In this scenario, we group employees by department
and calculate the total salary for each department.

For Example:

This query returns the total salary for each department.


You need to display departments with a
total salary greater than 100,000.
Question:
How can you filter grouped data using the HAVING clause?

The HAVING clause filters grouped data after aggregation.


In this scenario, it ensures only departments with a total
salary greater than 100,000 are displayed.

For Example:

This query displays departments whose combined salaries


exceed 100,000.
You need to combine employees from
two tables: employees_2023 and
employees_2024.
Question:
How would you use the UNION operator to combine the
data?

The UNION operator combines the result sets of two SELECT


queries and removes duplicates. Both queries must return
the same number of columns with compatible
data types.

For Example:

This query returns a combined list of employees from both


tables, without duplicates.
You want to keep duplicates while
combining two datasets.
Question:
How can you use UNION ALL to retain all rows, including
duplicates?

The UNION ALL operator combines result sets and keeps


all rows, including duplicates. It is more efficient since it
doesn’t check for duplicates.

For Example:

This query retains all duplicate rows from both datasets.


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