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 EmployeeDetails Table

EmpId FullName ManagerId DateOfJoining City

1 Praful Sharma 100 01/31/2019 Jhansi

2 Manglam Sen 105 01/30/2023 Kolkata

3 Mohit Agarwal 107 27/11/2022 New Delhi

EmployeeSalary Table

EmpId Project Salary Variable

1 P1 8000 400

3 P2 7000 1000

4 P1 12000 0
Q1.
• Print all Records from EmployeeDetails Table ?

Answer :

Select * From EmployeeDetails ;

Q2.
• Print details of the Employee whose Employee Id is 1.

Answer :

Select * From EmployeeDetails where empid = 1 ;

Q3.
• Print details of the All Employees Whose Manager ID is 100 And Their
City is Jhansi

Answer :

Select * From EmployeeDetails where managerid = 100 and city =

‘Jhansi’ ;
Q4.
• Print All Projects Available in EmployeeSalary Table

Answer :

SELECT DISTINCT(Project) FROM EmployeeSalary;

Q5.
• Fetch Count of Employees Working in P1 Project ?

Answer :

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM EmployeeSalary WHERE Project = 'P1';

Q6.
• Write an SQL query to find the maximum, minimum, and average
salary of the employees.

Answer :

SELECT Max(Salary),
Min(Salary),
AVG(Salary)
FROM EmployeeSalary;
Q7.
• Write an SQL query to find the employee id whose salary lies in the
range of 9000 and 15000.
Answer :

SELECT EmpId, Salary

FROM EmployeeSalary
WHERE Salary BETWEEN 9000 AND 15000;
Q8.
• Print All Employees Id Who live in Jhansi City or Their Manager Id is
100

Answer :

SELECT Empid
FROM EmployeeDetails
where city= 'Jhansi' or managerid = 100;
Q9.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all those employees who work on
Projects other than P2.

Answer :

SELECT EmpId
FROM EmployeeSalary
WHERE NOT Project='P2';
Q9.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all those employees who work on Projects other than P2.

Answer :

SELECT EmpId
FROM EmployeeSalary
WHERE NOT Project='P2’;

Or

SELECT EmpId
FROM EmployeeSalary
WHERE Project <> ‘P2';
Q10.
• Write an SQL query to display the total salary of each employee
adding the Salary with Variable value.

Answer :

SELECT EmpId,
Salary+Variable as TotalSalary
FROM EmployeeSalary;
Q11.
• Write an SQL query to display the Names of the Employee Where
Second Letter of the Name is a.

Answer :

SELECT FullName
FROM EmployeeDetails
WHERE FullName LIKE '_a%';
Q12.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all the EmpIds which are present in either
of the tables – ‘EmployeeDetails’ and ‘EmployeeSalary’.

Answer :

SELECT EmpId FROM EmployeeDetails

UNION
SELECT EmpId FROM EmployeeSalary;
Q13.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all the EmpIds which are present in either
of the tables – ‘EmployeeDetails’ and ‘EmployeeSalary’.

Answer :

SELECT EmpId FROM EmployeeDetails

UNION
SELECT EmpId FROM EmployeeSalary;
Q14.
• Write an SQL query to fetch the EmpIds that are present in both the
tables – ‘EmployeeDetails’ and ‘EmployeeSalary.

Answer :

SELECT EmpId FROM

EmployeeDetails
where EmpId IN
(SELECT EmpId FROM EmployeeSalary);
Q15.
• Write an SQL query to fetch the EmpIds that are present in
EmployeeDetails but not in EmployeeSalary.

Answer :

SELECT EmpId FROM

EmployeeDetails
where EmpId Not IN
(SELECT EmpId FROM EmployeeSalary);
Q16.
• Write an SQL query to fetch the employee’s full names and replace
the space with ‘-’.

Answer :

SELECT REPLACE(FullName, ' ', '-')

FROM EmployeeDetails;
Q17.
• Write an SQL query to display both the EmpId and ManagerId
together.

Answer :

SELECT CONCAT(EmpId, ManagerId) as NewId

FROM EmployeeDetails;
Q18.
• Write an SQL query to display both the EmpId and ManagerId
together.

Answer :

SELECT CONCAT(EmpId, ManagerId) as NewId

FROM EmployeeDetails;
Q19.
• Write a query to fetch only the first name(string before space) from
the FullName column of the EmployeeDetails table.

Answer :

SELECT MID(FullName, 1, LOCATE(' ',FullName))

FROM EmployeeDetails;
Q20.
• Write an SQL query to uppercase the name of the employee and
lowercase the city values.

Answer :

SELECT UPPER(FullName), LOWER(City)

FROM EmployeeDetails;
Q21.
• Write an SQL query to update the employee names by removing
leading and trailing spaces.

Answer :

UPDATE EmployeeDetails
SET FullName = LTRIM(RTRIM(FullName));
Q21.
• Write an SQL query to fetch employee names having a salary greater than
or equal to 5000 and less than or equal to 10000.

Answer :

SELECT FullName
FROM EmployeeDetails
WHERE EmpId IN
(SELECT EmpId FROM EmployeeSalary
WHERE Salary BETWEEN 5000 AND 10000);
Q22.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all the Employee details from the
EmployeeDetails table who joined in the Year 2022

Answer :

SELECT * FROM EmployeeDetails

WHERE YEAR(DateOfJoining) = '2022';
Q22.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all the Employee details from the
EmployeeDetails table who joined in the Year 2022

Answer :

SELECT * FROM EmployeeDetails

WHERE YEAR(DateOfJoining) = '2022';
Q23.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all employee records from the
EmployeeDetails table who have a salary record in the EmployeeSalary
table.

Answer :

SELECT * FROM EmployeeDetails E

WHERE EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM EmployeeSalary S
WHERE E.EmpId = S.EmpId);
Q24.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all employee records from the
EmployeeDetails table who have a salary record in the EmployeeSalary
table.

Answer :

SELECT * FROM EmployeeDetails E

WHERE EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM EmployeeSalary S
WHERE E.EmpId = S.EmpId);
Q25.
• Write an SQL query to fetch the project-wise count of employees
sorted by project’s count in descending order.

Answer :

SELECT Project, count(EmpId) ProjectCount

FROM EmployeeSalary
GROUP BY Project
ORDER BY EmpProjectCount DESC;
Q26.
• Write an SQL query to fetch all the Employees who are also managers
from the EmployeeDetails table.

Answer :

SELECT DISTINCT E.FullName

FROM EmployeeDetails E
INNER JOIN EmployeeDetails M
ON E.EmpID = M.ManagerID;
Q27.
• Write an SQL query to fetch records from EmployeeDetails Where
Manager Id is Coming More than Once.

Answer :

SELECT * from employeedetails

WHERE ManagerId in (SELECT ManagerId
FROM EmployeeDetails
GROUP BY ManagerId
HAVING count(ManagerId)>1);
Q27.
• Write an SQL query to fetch records from EmployeeDetails Where
Manager Id is Coming More than Once.

Answer :

SELECT * from employeedetails

WHERE ManagerId in (SELECT ManagerId
FROM EmployeeDetails
GROUP BY ManagerId
HAVING count(ManagerId)>1);
Q28.
• Write an SQL query to fetch only odd rows from the table.

Answer :

SELECT E.EmpId, E.Project, E.Salary

FROM (
SELECT *, Row_Number() OVER(ORDER BY EmpId) AS RowNumber
FROM EmployeeSalary
)E
WHERE E.RowNumber % 2 = 1;
Q29.
• Write an SQL query to fetch only even rows from the table.

Answer :

SELECT * FROM EmployeeDetails

WHERE MOD (EmpId, 2) = 0;
Q30.
• Write an SQL query to create a new table with data and structure
copied from another table.

Answer :

CREATE TABLE NewTable

SELECT * FROM EmployeeSalary;
Q31.
• Write an SQL query to fetch top n records.

Answer :

SELECT *
FROM EmployeeSalary
ORDER BY Salary DESC LIMIT 3;
Q31.
• Write SQL query to find the 3rd highest salary from a table without using the TOP/limit
keyword.

Answer :

SELECT Salary
FROM EmployeeSalary Emp1
WHERE N-1 = (
SELECT COUNT( DISTINCT ( Emp2.Salary ) )
FROM EmployeeSalary Emp2
WHERE Emp2.Salary > Emp1.Salary
)
Q31.
• Order Employee names Based On Alphabetical Order.

Answer :

SELECT Fullname from EmployeeDetails ORDER by Fullname;

Q32.
• Order Employee Names And Salary Based On Salary.

Answer :

SELECT Fullname , Salary From employeedetails E ,

employeesalary ES
Where E.EmpId = ES.EmpId ORDER by ES.Salary;
Q33.
• Print Total Salary Going from Each Project

Answer :

SELECT ES.Project , ES.Salary from employeesalary ES

GROUP by es.Project;
Q34.
• Print All Employee Details Whose Joining Date is Not in Last Year

Answer :

SELECT * FROM employeedetails

WHERE (DateOfJoining < CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL 1 YEAR) ;
Q35.
• Print All Employee Who Gets Paid Above Average Salary

Answer :

SELECT * From employeedetails , employeesalary where

employeedetails.EmpId = employeesalary.EmpId
and employeesalary.Salary > (SELECT avg(salary) from
employeesalary);
Q36.
• Print All Employees Who is in the company for more than 4 years

Answer :

SELECT * from employeedetails WHERE year(CURRENT_DATE) -

year(DateOfJoining) > 4;
Q37.
• Print All Employees With Total Number of years as Service.

Answer :

SELECT * , (year(CURRENT_DATE) - year(DateOfJoining)) as

'Service' from employeedetails ;
Q38.
• Print Total Employees in Each Project.

Answer :

Select employeesalary.Project,count(*) as 'Total Employees' from

employeesalary GROUP by employeesalary.project;
Q39.
• Return List of All Manager Order By Total number of employees
managed by them.

Answer :

SELECT ManagerId , COUNT(*) as NumEmployees From

Employeedetails
GROUP by ManagerId
ORDER by NumEmployees;
Q40.
• Return List of All Employee who are serving for more than 2 Years and not
in Project P2 And P3

Answer :

SELECT * from employeesalary

where Project NOT IN('P2' , 'P3')
AND EmpId IN
(Select EmpId from employeedetails
where year(CURRENT_DATE) - year(dateofjoining) > 2);
Q41.
• Select Average Salary from Each Project

Answer :

SELECT AVG(Salary) , Project from employeesalary

GROUP by project;
Q41.
• Select Project with total Salary whose total employees salary sum is greater than
the maximum of average salary project wise.

Answer :

SELECT Project , SUM(Salary)

From
employeesalary
GROUP by Project
HAVING sum(Salary) > (
SELECT max(Average.avgsalary) from (SELECT avg(Salary) as avgsalary
,project from employeesalary group by project) as Average);
Q42.
• Add new column role in EmployeeDetails
Answer :

ALTER TABLE Employeedetails

ADD Role varchar(255);
Q43.
• Update the value of Role if Salary + variable < 2000 then Analyst , Otherwise Sr Analyst.

Answer :

UPDATE employeedetails ed
INNER join employeesalary es on ed.EmpId = es.EmpId
set ed.Role = (
CASE
WHEN es.Salary + es.Variable < 20000
THEN 'Analyst'
ELSE 'Sr Analyst’ END)
Q44.
• Produce the output as Name(Role)

Answer :

SELECT Concat(FullName , '(' , Role , ')') AS "EmployeeWithRole"

FROM employeedetails;
Q45.
• Display Total Number of Characters in Employee Name

Answer :

SELECT fullname , length(trim(FullName))-1 as Namelength from

employeedetails
Q46.
• Display all details of employee whose Total salary will be more than
20000 after increasing salary by 20%

Answer :

SELECT * from employeedetails ed , employeesalary es WHERE

ed.EmpId = es.EmpId And (es.Variable + es.Salary+es.Salary*0.2) >
20000 and es.Salary < 20000;
Q47.
• Display all Employees who joined in January

Answer :

SELECT * from employeedetails

where Monthname(DateOfJoining ) = 'january'
Q48.
• Return all manager id’s which are not Present in Employeedetails
table as Empid

Answer :

SELECT ManagerId FROM employeedetails

WHERE ManagerId NOT IN
(SELECT EmpId from employeedetails) ;
Q49.
• Print Total Experience in Years Months Days Format
Answer :

SELECT
CONCAT(TIMESTAMPDIFF( YEAR, DateOfJoining, CURDATE() ) , ' Years ' ,
TIMESTAMPDIFF( MONTH, DateOfJoining, CURDATE() ) % 12 , ' Months ' ,
FLOOR( TIMESTAMPDIFF( DAY, DateOfJoining, CURDATE() ) % 30 ) , ' Days ' )
as TotalExperience

from employeedetails
Q49.
• Return Employees with even salary

Answer :

SELECT * from employeesalary where mod(salary,2) = 0;

Q50.
• Return Employees with 4 digit salary

Answer :

SELECT * from employeesalary WHERE length(employeesalary.Salary) =

4;
Q51.
• Return Employees who joined in last 11 months

Answer :

SELECT *
FROM employeedetails
WHERE dateofjoining >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 11 MONTH;
Q52.
• Return Employees who did not join in January
Answer :

SELECT *
FROM employeedetails
WHERE monthname(dateofjoining) <> 'January'
Q53.
• Return Employees who either join on 12 December or 1 January
Answer :

SELECT *
FROM employeedetails
WHERE (MONTH(dateofjoining) = 12 AND DAY(dateofjoining) = 12)
OR (MONTH(dateofjoining) = 1 AND DAY(dateofjoining) = 1);
Q54.
• Return Employees whose salary between min salary + 1000 and max
salary - 1000
Answer :

SELECT *
FROM employeesalary ed
WHERE ed.Salary BETWEEN (SELECT min(salary) from
employeesalary)+1000 and
(SELECT max(Salary) from employeesalary) - 10000;
Q55.
• Return Employees who work in P1 project and order them by salary

Answer :

SELECT * FROM employeedetails , employeesalary WHERE

employeedetails.EmpId = employeesalary.EmpId
and employeesalary.Project = 'P1'
ORDER by salary asc;
Q56.
• Print Average salary from each role

Answer :

SELECT employeedetails.role , AVG(salary) from employeesalary ,

employeedetails
WHERE employeesalary.EmpId = employeedetails.EmpId
GROUP by employeedetails.Role ;
Q57.
• Print Count of employees , minimum and maximum salary from each
role

Answer :

SELECT employeedetails.role , min(salary) , max(salary) ,

count(employeedetails.EmpId) as EmpCount from employeesalary ,
employeedetails
WHERE employeesalary.EmpId = employeedetails.EmpId
GROUP by employeedetails.Role ;
Q. 51
• Employees who did not join in January