6 complete SQL questions along with their solutions, taken from JNTUK DBMS

Previous Papers:

1. Employee & Department Query (December 2023 - Q3a)

Tables:

• EMPLOYEE (EmpNo, EName, DoB, Address, Gender, Salary, DNo)

• DEPARTMENT (DNo, Dname, ManagerEmpNo, ManagerStartDate)

Questions & Solutions:

1️⃣ Display all employees in the Department named ‘Computer Science’.

SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEE

WHERE DNo = (SELECT DNo FROM DEPARTMENT WHERE Dname = 'Computer Science');

2️⃣ Display the name of the highest salary-paid male employee.

SELECT EName FROM EMPLOYEE

WHERE Gender = 'Male'
ORDER BY Salary DESC
LIMIT 1;

3️⃣ Find the oldest manager in the company.

SELECT ManagerEmpNo, MIN(ManagerStartDate) AS Oldest_Manager_Start_Date

FROM DEPARTMENT;

4️⃣ Display the department name of the employee ‘SRINIVAS’.

SELECT Dname FROM DEPARTMENT

WHERE DNo = (SELECT DNo FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE EName = 'SRINIVAS');

5️⃣ Display the age of female employees.

SELECT EName, YEAR(CURDATE()) - YEAR(DoB) AS Age

FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE Gender = 'Female';

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2. Sailors & Boats Query (December 2023 - Q4a)

Tables:

• Sailors (sid, sname, rating, age)

• Boats (bid, bname, color)
• Reserves (sid, bid, day)

Questions & Solutions:

1️⃣ Find the sids of all sailors who have reserved red boats but not green boats.

SELECT DISTINCT r.sid

FROM Reserves r
JOIN Boats b ON r.bid = b.bid
WHERE b.color = 'Red'
AND r.sid NOT IN (
SELECT r.sid FROM Reserves r
JOIN Boats b ON r.bid = b.bid
WHERE b.color = 'Green'
);

2️⃣ Find all sids of sailors who have a rating of 7 or reserved boat 101.

SELECT DISTINCT sid FROM Sailors WHERE rating = 7

UNION
SELECT DISTINCT sid FROM Reserves WHERE bid = 101;

3️⃣ Count the number of different sailor names.

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT sname) FROM Sailors;

4️⃣ Find the names of sailors older than the oldest sailor with a rating of 10.

SELECT sname FROM Sailors

WHERE age > (SELECT MAX(age) FROM Sailors WHERE rating = 10);

5️⃣ Find the age of the youngest sailor for each rating level.

SELECT rating, MIN(age) AS Youngest_Age

FROM Sailors GROUP BY rating;

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3. Student & Course Query (July 2023 - Q3a)

Tables:

• Student (Sno, Sname, courseId, email_id, Mobileno)

• Course (CID, Cname, Cduration)

Questions & Solutions:

1️⃣ Add a column city in the Student table.

ALTER TABLE Student ADD city VARCHAR(50);

2️⃣ Find the list of students who have enrolled in the ‘AIML’ course.

SELECT Sname FROM Student

WHERE courseId = (SELECT CID FROM Course WHERE Cname = 'AIML');

3️⃣ List all course names with their durations.

SELECT Cname, Cduration FROM Course;

4️⃣ List names of all students whose names start with “R”.

SELECT Sname FROM Student WHERE Sname LIKE 'R%';

5️⃣ List email IDs and mobile numbers of all Computer Science Engineering
students.

SELECT email_id, Mobileno FROM Student

WHERE courseId = (SELECT CID FROM Course WHERE Cname LIKE '%Computer
Science%');

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4. Employee & Works Query (February 2022 - Q3)

Tables:

• employee (employee-name, street, city)

• works (employee-name, company-name, salary)
• company (company-name, city)
• manages (employee-name, manager-name)

Questions & Solutions:

1️⃣ Modify the database so that Jones now lives in Newtown.

UPDATE employee
SET city = 'Newtown'
WHERE employee-name = 'Jones';

2️⃣ Give all employees of ‘First Bank Corporation’ a 10% raise.

UPDATE works
SET salary = salary * 1.10
WHERE company-name = 'First Bank Corporation';

3️⃣ Give all managers of ‘First Bank Corporation’ a 10% raise.

UPDATE works
SET salary = salary * 1.10
WHERE employee-name IN (
SELECT manager-name FROM manages
WHERE employee-name IN (SELECT employee-name FROM works WHERE company-
name = 'First Bank Corporation')
);

4️⃣ Give all managers of ‘First Bank Corporation’ a 10% raise unless their salary
exceeds $100,000; in such cases, give only a 3% raise.

UPDATE works
SET salary = CASE
WHEN salary > 100000 THEN salary * 1.03
ELSE salary * 1.10
END
WHERE employee-name IN (
SELECT manager-name FROM manages
WHERE employee-name IN (SELECT employee-name FROM works WHERE company-
name = 'First Bank Corporation')
);

5️⃣ Delete all tuples in the works relation for employees of ‘Small Bank
Corporation’.

DELETE FROM works WHERE company-name = 'Small Bank Corporation';

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5. Airline & Pilots Query (June/July 2022 - Q4)

Tables:

• Flights (flno, from, to, distance, departs, arrives, price)

• Aircraft (aid, aname, cruisingrange)
• Certified (eid, aid)
• Employees (eid, ename, salary)

Questions & Solutions:

1️⃣ Find the names of aircraft such that all pilots certified to operate them have
salaries more than $80,000.

SELECT DISTINCT aname FROM Aircraft a

WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT * FROM Certified c
JOIN Employees e ON c.eid = e.eid
WHERE a.aid = c.aid AND e.salary <= 80000
);

2️⃣ Find the names of pilots certified for some Boeing aircraft.

SELECT DISTINCT e.ename FROM Employees e

JOIN Certified c ON e.eid = c.eid
JOIN Aircraft a ON c.aid = a.aid
WHERE a.aname LIKE '%Boeing%';

6. Faculty & Students Query (June/July 2022 - Q4)

Tables:

• Student (snum, sname, major, level, age)

• Class (name, meets_at, room, fid)
• Enrolled (snum, cname)
• Faculty (fid, fname, deptid)

Questions & Solutions:

1️⃣ Find the names of all Juniors (level = JR) who are enrolled in a class taught by
Prof. Krishna.

SELECT DISTINCT s.sname

FROM Student s
JOIN Enrolled e ON s.snum = e.snum
JOIN Class c ON e.cname = c.name
JOIN Faculty f ON c.fid = f.fid
WHERE s.level = 'JR' AND f.fname = 'Krishna';

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2️⃣ Find the age of the oldest student who is either a History major or enrolled in a
course taught by Prof. Joseph.

SELECT MAX(s.age)
FROM Student s
WHERE s.major = 'History'
OR s.snum IN (
SELECT e.snum FROM Enrolled e
JOIN Class c ON e.cname = c.name
JOIN Faculty f ON c.fid = f.fid
WHERE f.fname = 'Joseph'
);

3️⃣ Find the names of all classes that either meet in room R128 or have five or more
students enrolled.

SELECT DISTINCT c.name

FROM Class c
WHERE c.room = 'R128'
OR c.name IN (
SELECT e.cname FROM Enrolled e
GROUP BY e.cname
HAVING COUNT(e.snum) >= 5
);

4️⃣ Find the names of faculty members for whom the combined enrollment of the
courses they teach is less than five.

SELECT f.fname
FROM Faculty f
JOIN Class c ON f.fid = c.fid
LEFT JOIN Enrolled e ON c.name = e.cname
GROUP BY f.fname
HAVING COUNT(e.snum) < 5;

5️⃣ For each level, print the level and the average age of students for that level.

SELECT level, AVG(age) AS avg_age

FROM Student
GROUP BY level;

6️⃣ Find the names of faculty members who teach in every room in which some
class is taught.

SELECT f.fname
FROM Faculty f
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT DISTINCT c.room
FROM Class c
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT * FROM Class c2
WHERE c2.fid = f.fid AND c2.room = c.room
)
);

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