Practical SQL, 2nd Edition: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

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They are character sequences bound within single quotes. These are using during data insertion or updation to characters in the database.

All this tells us that this table is a list of a company’s employees and their salaries. There is also data on the employees’ departments. All employees work in the sales division, where the department can be either Corporate or Private Individuals. In other words, the employees sell the company’s products to companies and private individuals.

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Clustered index modifies the way records are stored in a database based on the indexed column. A non-clustered index creates a separate entity within the table which references the original table. We write the first condition in WHERE, where we reference the salary column and set the condition that the values must be above 5,000. Then we use the OR operator, followed by the second condition. The second condition again references the salary column and uses the ‘less than’ operator to return the values below 3,000. Output first_name SELECT * FROM WorkerClone); Q-30. Write an SQL query to show records from one table that another table does not have. The required query is: Select substring(FIRST_NAME,1,3) from Worker; Q-5. Write an SQL query to find the position of the alphabet (‘a’) in the first name column ‘Amitabh’ from the Worker table. Whenever you want to select any number of columns from any table, you need to use the SELECT statement. You write it, rather obviously, by using the SELECT keyword.

A FOREIGN KEY comprises of single or collection of fields in a table that essentially refers to the PRIMARY KEY in another table. Foreign key constraint ensures referential integrity in the relation between two tables.OLTP stands for Online Transaction Processing, is a class of software applications capable of supporting transaction-oriented programs. An important attribute of an OLTP system is its ability to maintain concurrency. OLTP systems often follow a decentralized architecture to avoid single points of failure. These systems are generally designed for a large audience of end-users who conduct short transactions. Queries involved in such databases are generally simple, need fast response times, and return relatively few records. A number of transactions per second acts as an effective measure for such systems.

Once the server is successfully restarted, we get the message: Restarting PostgreSQL: server stopped Unbelievable as it may seem, this story is true. This woman came from a very underprivileged Southeast Asian nation, and the opportunity to practice her computer skills simply had never arisen during her six long years as a computer science student. Practicing SQL query interview questions is a great way to improve your understanding of the language and become more proficient in using it. However, in addition to improving your technical skills, practicing SQL query questions can also help you advance your career. Many employers are looking for candidates who have strong SQL skills, so being able to demonstrate your proficiency in the language can give you a competitive edge. Q-40. Write an SQL query to fetch the departments that have less than five people in them. After running the above command, if the database creation was successful, then the below message is shown: CREATE DATABASE 5. How can we start, restart and stop the PostgreSQL server? For more information, you can refer here. 20. What is the main disadvantage of deleting data from an existing table using the DROP TABLE command?Relationships: Relations or links between entities that have something to do with each other. For example - The employee's table in a company's database can be associated with the salary table in the same database. 24. List the different types of relationships in SQL. A sequence is a schema-bound, user-defined object which aids to generate a sequence of integers. This is most commonly used to generate values to identity columns in a table. We can create a sequence by using the CREATE SEQUENCE statement as shown below: CREATE SEQUENCE serial_num START 100; The required query is: SELECT FIRST_NAME, SALARY from Worker WHERE SALARY=(SELECT max(SALARY) from Worker); PostgreSQL being an open-source database system having extremely robust and sophisticated ACID, Indexing, and Transaction supports has found widespread popularity among the developer community.