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Detailed SQL Sample Questions

The document provides a series of SQL sample questions and solutions related to employee data management. It includes queries for finding the second highest salary, retrieving employees without managers, counting employees by department, filtering recent hires, listing departments with more than five employees, retrieving highest salaries per department, and calculating average salaries per department. Each query is accompanied by a brief explanation of the SQL concepts used.

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Detailed SQL Sample Questions

The document provides a series of SQL sample questions and solutions related to employee data management. It includes queries for finding the second highest salary, retrieving employees without managers, counting employees by department, filtering recent hires, listing departments with more than five employees, retrieving highest salaries per department, and calculating average salaries per department. Each query is accompanied by a brief explanation of the SQL concepts used.

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Detailed SQL Sample Questions and Solutions

Q1: Find the second highest salary from an Employee table.

To get the second highest salary, you can use a subquery to find the max salary less than the highest:

SELECT MAX(salary) FROM Employee WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM Employee);

Q2: Retrieve all employees who do not have a manager.

Rows with NULL in 'manager_id' usually indicate top-level employees:

SELECT * FROM Employee WHERE manager_id IS NULL;

Q3: Count the number of employees in each department.

GROUP BY clause helps to aggregate data based on department_id:

SELECT department_id, COUNT(*) AS total_employees FROM Employee GROUP BY department_id;

Q4: Get employees who joined in the last 3 months.

Assuming 'join_date' is of DATE type:

SELECT * FROM Employee WHERE join_date >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '3 months';

Q5: List departments having more than 5 employees.

Use HAVING to filter groups based on aggregate functions:

SELECT department_id FROM Employee GROUP BY department_id HAVING COUNT(*) > 5;

Q6: Retrieve employees with the highest salary in each department.

Use a correlated subquery or window function:

Using window function:

SELECT * FROM (

SELECT *, RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY department_id ORDER BY salary DESC) as rank

FROM Employee

) ranked WHERE rank = 1;


Q7: Get the average salary per department and order them by average salary descending.

Use GROUP BY and ORDER BY together:

SELECT department_id, AVG(salary) AS avg_salary FROM Employee

GROUP BY department_id ORDER BY avg_salary DESC;

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