Selects

1. List all the data in the classic models database:

a) Product Lines (7)
b) Product (110);
c) Employees (23)
d) Offices (7)
e) Customers (122)
f) Orders (326)
g) Orderdetails (2996)
h) Payments (273)
2. Select customer name from customer. Sort by customer name (122)
3. List each of the different status that an order may be in (6)
4. List firstname and lastname for each employee. Sort by lastname then firstname (23)
5. List all the employee job titles (7)
6. List all products along with their product scale (110)
7. List all the territories where we have offices (4)
Where Clause
8. select contact firstname, contact lastname and credit limit for all customers where credit
limit > 50000 ordered by the last name, then the first name. (85)
9. select customers who do not have a credit limit (0.00) order by customerName (24)
10. List all offices not in the USA (4)
11. List orders made between June 16, 2014 and July 7, 2014 (8)
12. List products that we need to reorder (quantityinstock < 1000) (12)
13. List all orders that shipped after the required date (1)
14. List all customers who have the word ‘Mini’ in their name (10)
15. List all products supplied by ‘Highway 66 Mini Classics’ (9)

16. List all products not supplied by ‘Highway 66 Mini Classics’ order by productName (101)

17. List all employees that don't have a manager (1)

Natural Join

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 18. Display every order along with the details of that order for order numbers 10270, 10272,
10279 (23)
Hint: this can be done two ways. Try both of them. Which is easier if you have a large number of
selection criteria?
19. List of productlines, the productline’s text description and vendors that supply the
products in that productline ordered by productLine and productVendor. (65)
Inner Join
20. select customers that live in the same state as one of our offices ordered by
customerName (26)
21. select customers that live in the same state as their employee representative works (26)
Multi-join
22. select customerName, orderDate, quantityOrdered, productLine, productName for all
orders made and shipped in 2015 (444)
Outer Join
23. List products that didn't sell (1)
24. List all customers and their sales rep even if they don’t have a sales rep order by
customerName (122)
Aggregate Functions
25. Find the total of all payments made by each customer (98)
26. Find the largest payment made by a customer (1)
27. Find the average payment made by a customer (1)
28. What is the total number of products per product line (7)
29. What is the number of orders per status (6)
30. List all offices and the number of employees working in each office (7)
Having
31. List the total number of products per product line where number of products > 3 (6)
32. List the orderNumber and order total for all orders that totaled more than $60,000.00.
(3)
Computations
33. List the products and the profit that we have made on them. The profit in each order for
a given product is (priceEach – buyPrice) * quantityOrdered. List the product’s name
and code with the total profit that we have earned selling that product. Order the rows
descending by profit. Only show those products whose profit is greater than $60,000.00.
(11)

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 34. List the average of the money spent on each product across all orders where that
product appears when the customer is based in Japan. Show these products in
descending order by the average expenditure (45).
35. What is the profit per product (MSRP-buyprice). Order by productName. (110)
36. List the Customer Name and their total orders (quantity * priceEach) across all orders
that the customer has ever placed with us, in descending order by order total for those
customers who have ordered more than $100,000.00 from us ordered by Customer total
in descending order. (32)

Set Operations
37. List all customers who didn't order in 2015 (78)
38. List all people that we deal with (employees and customer contacts). Display contact first
name, contact last name, company name for the customers. For the employees, display
their first name, last name, and just the literal ‘Employee’ for the employees. Returns
145 rows.
39. List the last name, first name, and employee number of all of the employees who do not
have any customers. Order by last name first, then the first name. (8).
40. List the states and the country that the state is part of that have customers but not
offices, offices but not customers, or both one or more customers and one or more
offices all in one query. Designate which state is which with the string 'Customer',
'Office', or 'Both'. If a state falls into the “Both” category, do not list it as a Customer or
an Office state. Order by the country, then the state. Give the category column (where
you list ‘Customer’, ‘Office’, or ‘Both’) a header of “Category” and exclude any entries in
which the state is null. (19)
41. List the Product Code and Product name of every product that has never been in an
order in which the customer asked for more than 48 of them. Order by the Product
Name. (8)
42. List the customer name of any customer who ordered any products from either of the
two product lines ‘Trains’ or ‘Trucks and Buses’. Do not use an “or”. Instead perform a
union. Order by the customer’s name. (61)
43. List the name of all customers who do not live in the same state and country with any
other customer. Do not use a count for this exercise. Order by the customer name.
This returns 17 if you convert the null states to something like ‘N/A’ and it returns 10 if
you exclude all customers with no state value at all.
Subqueries
44. What product that makes us the most money (qty*price) across all orders for that
product? Returns 1.

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 45. List the product lines and vendors for product lines which are supported by < 5 vendors.
That is, there are < 5 vendors making products within that product line. Returns 3.
46. List the products in the product line with the most number of products. Returns 38.
47. Find the first name and last name of all customer contacts whose customer is located in
the same state as the San Francisco office. Returns 11.
48. What is the customer and salesperson of the highest priced order? The price of the
order is the sum of the quantity ordered * the price each for all the items within that
order. Returns 1.
49. What is the order number and the cost of the order for the most expensive orders? Note
that there could be more than one order which all happen to add up to the same cost,
and that same cost could be the highest cost among all orders. The cost of an order is
the sum of the quantity ordered * the price each for all the items within that order.
Returns 1.
50. What is the name of the customer, the order number, and the total cost of the most
expensive orders? Returns 1.
51. Take some portion of the above query and put that into a view. Then rewrite the above
query to use the view that you just created and consider how incorporating the view
made the query easier to understand. If you do not know how many rows this returns,
please come see me immediately.
52. Show all of the customers who have ordered at least one product with the name “Ford”
in it, that “Dragon Souveniers, Ltd.” has also ordered. List them in reverse alphabetical
order, and do not consider the case of the letters in the customer name in the ordering.
Show each customer no more than once. Returns 61.
53. Which products have an MSRP within 5% of the average MSRP across all products?
List the Product Name, the MSRP, and the average MSRP ordered by the product
MSRP. If we denote the average MSRP as aMSRP, then the % difference between a
particular MSRP and aMSRP is 100 * (MSRP - aMSRP)/aMSRP. Returns 14.
Recursion

54. List all the customers who have never made a payment on the same date as another
customer. Order by customer name. (57)
55. Find customers who have ordered the same thing. For instance, if ‘AV Stores, Co.’
orders a particular item five times, and ‘Land of Toys Inc.’ orders that same item 4 times,
it only counts as one item that they have ordered in common. Find only those customer
pairs who have ordered more than 40 different items in common (3).
56. What is the manager who manages the greatest number of employees (2)
57. Select all employees and their manager who work for the manager that manages the
greatest number of employee (12)

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 58. List all pairs of employees that have the same last name. Make sure each combination is
listed only once (5)
59. Select the name of each of two customers who have made at least one payment on the
same date as the other. Make sure that each pair of customers only appears once.
Order by the first customer name, then the second customer name. Returns 46 rows.
60. Find customers that share the same state and country. The country must be one of the
following: UK, Australia, Italy or Canada. Remember that not all countries have states at
all, so you need to substitute a character sting like ‘N/A’ for the state in those cases so
that you can compare the states. (15)

61. Find all of the customers who have the same sales representative as some other
customer, and either customer name has ‘Australian’ in it. List each of the customers
sharing a sales representative, and the name of the sales representative. Order by the
name of the first customer, then the second. Do not show any combination more than
once. (9)

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