Table Name : Employee

Employee_id First_name Last_name Salary Joining_date Department

1 John Abraham 1000000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Banking
2 Michael Clarke 800000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance
3 Roy Thomas 700000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Banking
4 Tom Jose 600000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance
5 Jerry Pinto 650000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance
6 Philip Mathew 750000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Services
7 TestName1 123 650000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Services
8 TestName2 Lnab 600000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance

Table Name : Incentives

Employee_ref_id Incentive_date Incentive_amount
1 01-FEB-13 5000
2 01-FEB-13 3000
3 01-FEB-13 4000
1 01-JAN-13 4500
2 01-JAN-13 3500

1. Get all employee details from the employee table

Select * from employee
2. Get First_Name,Last_Name from employee table
Select first_name, Last_Name from employee
3. Get First_Name from employee table using alias name “Employee Name”
Select first_name Employee Name from employee
4. Get First_Name from employee table in upper case
Select upper(FIRST_NAME) from EMPLOYEE
5. Get First_Name from employee table in lower case
Select lower(FIRST_NAME) from EMPLOYEE
6. Get unique DEPARTMENT from employee table
select distinct DEPARTMENT from EMPLOYEE

5. Get all employee details from the employee table order by First_Name Ascending
Select * from employee order by FIRST_NAME asc

16. Get all employee details from the employee table order by First_Name descending

Select * from employee order by FIRST_NAME desc

17. Get all employee details from the employee table order by First_Name Ascending
and Salary descending
Select * from employee order by FIRST_NAME asc,SALARY desc
"SQL Where Condition"
18. Get employee details from employee table whose employee name is “John”
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME='John'

19. Get employee details from employee table whose employee name are “John” and
“Roy”
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME in ('John','Roy')

20. Get employee details from employee table whose employee name are not “John” and
“Roy”
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME not in ('John','Roy')

"SQL Wild Card Search"

21. Get employee details from employee table whose first name starts with 'J'

Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like 'J%'

22. Get employee details from employee table whose first name contains 'o'

Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like '%o%'

23. Get employee details from employee table whose first name ends with 'n'

Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like '%n'

"SQL Pattern Matching"

24. Get employee details from employee table whose first name ends with 'n' and name
contains 4 letters

Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like '___n' (Underscores)

25. Get employee details from employee table whose first name starts with 'J' and name
contains 4 letters

Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like 'J___' (Underscores)

26. Get employee details from employee table whose Salary greater than 600000

Select * from EMPLOYEE where Salary >600000

27. Get employee details from employee table whose Salary less than 800000

Select * from EMPLOYEE where Salary <800000

28. Get employee details from employee table whose Salary between 500000 and 800000

Select * from EMPLOYEE where Salary between 500000 and 800000

29. Get employee details from employee table whose name is 'John' and 'Michael'

Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME in ('John','Michael')

33. Get employee details from employee table who joined after January 31st
SQL Queries in Oracle, Select * from EMPLOYEE where JOINING_DATE
>to_date('31/01/2013','dd/mm/yyyy')

SQL Queries in SQL Server and MySQL (Format - “MM/DD/YYYY”), Select * from
EMPLOYEE where joining_date >'01/31/2013'

SQL Queries in MySQL (Format - “YYYY-DD-MM”), Select * from EMPLOYEE where

joining_date >'2013-01-31'

Get names of employees from employee table who has '%' in Last_Name. Tip : Escape
character for special characters in a query.

SQL Queries in Oracle, Select FIRST_NAME from employee where Last_Name like
'%?%%'

SQL Queries in SQL Server, Select FIRST_NAME from employee where Last_Name
like '%[%]%'

SQL Queries in MySQL, Select FIRST_NAME from employee where Last_Name like
'%\%%'

40. Get Last Name from employee table after replacing special character with white
space
SQL Queries in Oracle, Select translate(LAST_NAME,'%',' ') from employee

SQL Queries in SQL Server and MySQL, Select REPLACE(LAST_NAME,'%',' ') from
employee

"SQL Group By Query"

41. Get department,total salary with respect to a department from employee table.
Select DEPARTMENT,sum(SALARY) Total_Salary from employee group by
department

42. Get department,total salary with respect to a department from employee table order
by total salary descending
Select DEPARTMENT,sum(SALARY) Total_Salary from employee group by
DEPARTMENT order by Total_Salary descending

Get department,no of employees in a department,total salary with respect to a

department from employee table order by total salary descending

Select DEPARTMENT,count(FIRST_NAME),sum(SALARY) Total_Salary from employee

group by DEPARTMENT order by Total_Salary descending

44. Get department wise average salary from employee table order by salary ascending

select DEPARTMENT,avg(SALARY) AvgSalary from employee group by DEPARTMENT

order by AvgSalary asc

45. Get department wise maximum salary from employee table order by salary
ascending

select DEPARTMENT,max(SALARY) MaxSalary from employee group by DEPARTMENT

order by MaxSalary asc

46. Get department wise minimum salary from employee table order by salary
ascending

select DEPARTMENT,min(SALARY) MinSalary from employee group by DEPARTMENT

order by MinSalary asc

47. Select no of employees joined with respect to year and month from employee table

SQL Queries in Oracle, select to_char (JOINING_DATE,'YYYY')

Join_Year,to_char (JOINING_DATE,'MM') Join_Month,count(*) Total_Emp from
employee group by to_char (JOINING_DATE,'YYYY'),to_char(JOINING_DATE,'MM')

SQL Queries in SQL Server, select datepart (YYYY,JOINING_DATE)

Join_Year,datepart (MM,JOINING_DATE) Join_Month,count(*) Total_Emp from
employee group by datepart(YYYY,JOINING_DATE), datepart(MM,JOINING_DATE)

SQL Queries in MySQL, select year (JOINING_DATE) Join_Year,month

(JOINING_DATE) Join_Month,count(*) Total_Emp from employee group by
year(JOINING_DATE), month(JOINING_DATE)

48. Select department,total salary with respect to a department from employee table
where total salary greater than 800000 order by Total_Salary descending

Select DEPARTMENT,sum(SALARY) Total_Salary from employee group by

DEPARTMENT having sum(SALARY) >800000 order by Total_Salary desc

Insert into employee table Last Name with " ' " (Single Quote - Special Character)
Tip - Use another single quote before special character
Insert into employee (LAST_NAME) values ('Test''')

Select TOP 2 salary from employee table

select * from employee order by salary desc limit 2

Select TOP N salary from employee table

select * from employee order by salary desc limit N

Write syntax to delete table employee

DROP table employee;

Write syntax to set EMPLOYEE_ID as primary key in employee table

ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE add CONSTRAINT EMPLOYEE_PK PRIMARY KEY(EMPLOYEE_ID)

Write syntax to set 2 fields(EMPLOYEE_ID,FIRST_NAME) as primary key in

employee table

ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE add CONSTRAINT EMPLOYEE_PK PRIMARY

KEY(EMPLOYEE_ID,FIRST_NAME)

Write syntax to drop primary key on employee table

Alter TABLE EMPLOYEE drop CONSTRAINT EMPLOYEE_PK;

Write Sql Syntax to create EMPLOYEE_REF_ID in INCENTIVES table as foreign key

with respect to EMPLOYEE_ID in employee table

ALTER TABLE INCENTIVES ADD CONSTRAINT INCENTIVES_FK FOREIGN KEY

(EMPLOYEE_REF_ID) REFERENCES EMPLOYEE(EMPLOYEE_ID)

Write SQL to drop foreign key on employee table

ALTER TABLE INCENTIVES drop CONSTRAINT INCENTIVES_FK;