Practice Questions

1. Display details of jobs where the minimum salary is greater than 50000.

SELECT * from jobs where min_salary >50000;

2. Display the first name and join date of the employees who joined between 2001
and 2010.
SELECT FIRST_NAME, HIRE_DATE FROM EMPLOYEESWHERE
TO_CHAR(HIRE_DATE, 'YYYY') BETWEEN 2002 AND 2003 ORDER BY
HIRE_DATE;
SELECT first_name, hire_date from employees where hire_date BETWEEN '1-JAN-
01' AND '1-JAN-03';

3. Display first name and join date of the employees who is either IT Programmer or
Sales Man.

SELECT First_name, hire_date from employees where job_id IN ('IT_PROG',

'SA_MAN');
4. Display employees who joined after 1st January 2012.

SELECT * from employees where hire_date>('01-JAN-012');

5. Display details of employee with ID 152 or 180.

SELECT * FROM employees where employee_ID IN(152, 180);

6. Display first name, salary, commission pct, and hire date for employees with salary
less than 10000.

SELECT first_name, salary, commission_pct, hire_date from employees where

salary < 10000;

7. Display job Title, the difference between minimum and maximum salaries for jobs
with max salary in the range 10000 to 20000.

SELECT job_title, max_salary, (max_salary – min_salary) from jobs where

max_salary BETWEEN 10000 AND 20000;

8. Display first name, salary, and round the salary to thousands.

SELECT first_name, salary, ROUND(Salary, -3) From Employees;

9. Display details of jobs in the descending order of the title.

Select * from jobs ORDER BY job_title DESC;

10. Display employees where the first name or last name starts with K.

SELECT * from employees where First_name LIKE 'K%' OR Last_name LIKE 'K%';

11. Display employees who joined in the month of June.

SELECT * from employees where TO_CHAR(HIRE_DATE, 'MON') = 'JUN';

12. Display details of the employees where commission percentage is null and salary
in the range 5000 to 10000 and department is 30.

SELECT * from employees where commission_pct IS null AND salary BETWEEN 5000
AND 10000 AND department_id = 30;

13. Display first name and date of first salary of the employees.

SELECT first_name, hire_date, LAST_DAY(hire_date) As "Salary Day"

from Employees;
14. Display first name and experience of the employees.

Select Employees.first_name, Job_history.start_date, Job_history .end_date,

Round((Job_history.end_date- Job_history.start_date)/365) As
"Experience" from Employees JOIN job_history ON
Employees.Employee_id = Job_history.Employee_id;
15. Display first name of employees who joined in 2001.

SELECT first_name from employees where TO_CHAR(HIRE_DATE, 'YYYY') = '2001';

16. Display first name and last name after converting the first letter of each name to
upper case and the rest to lower case.

SELECT INITCAP(First_name) AS First_Name, INITCAP(Last_name) As Last_name

from employees;
17. Display the first word in job title.
SELECT JOB_TITLE, SUBSTR(JOB_TITLE,1, INSTR(JOB_TITLE, ' ')) FROM JOBS;
18. Display the length of first name for employees where last name contain
character ‘b’ after 3rd position.
SELECT first_name, last_name, LENGTH(first_name) from employees where
INSTR(last_name, 'b')>3 ;Display department ID, year, and Number of employees
joined.
19. Display departments where any manager is managing more than 5 employees.

SELECT distinct department_id from employees GROUP BY manager_id,

department_id having count(employee_id)>5;

20. Change salary of employee 115 to 8000 if the existing salary is less than 6000.
UPDATE employees SET Salary = 8000 where employee_id = 115 AND salary <
6000;
21. Insert a new employee into employees with all the required details.

INSERT INTO EMPLOYEES (EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, EMAIL,

PHONE_NUMBER, HIRE_DATE,JOB_ID, SALARY, DEPARTMENT_ID)
VALUES (207, 'RIAN', 'LEE','RIAN','110 903 2339', SYSDATE, 'IT_PROG', 10000, 60);

22. Delete department 20.

DELETE FROM departments where department_id = 20;

23. Change job ID of employee 110 to IT_PROG if the employee belongs to

department 10 and the existing job ID does not start with IT.

UPDATE employees SET job_id = 'IT_PROG' where employee_id = 110 AND

Department_id = 10 AND NOT Job_id LIKE 'IT%';

24. Insert a row into departments table with manager ID 120 and location ID in any
location ID for city Tokyo.

INSERT INTO DEPARTMENTS (Department_id, Department_name, manager_id,

location_id)
VALUES (280, 'Design', 120,1200);
25. Display department name and number of employees in the department.

SELECT department_name, COUNT(employee_id) AS employee_number from

emp_details_view GROUP BY department_name
;

26. Display job title, employee ID, number of days between ending date and starting
date for all jobs in department 30 from job history.
Select job_id, employee_Id, (end_date – start_date) As WorkedDays from
job_history where department_id = 30;
27. Display department name and manager first name.
Select departments.department_name, employees.first_name from
departments join employees ON departments.manager_id=
employees.employee_id ;

28. Display department name, manager name, and city.

SELECT departments.department_name, employees.first_name, locations.city

from departments JOIN employees
ON employees.employee_id= departments.manager_id JOIN Locations USING
(Location_id);

29. Display first name in upper case and email address in lower case for employees
where the first name and email address are same irrespective of the case.
 SELECT UPPER(First_name) First_Name, LOWER(email) Email from employees
where UPPER(First_name) = UPPER(email);
30. Display country name, city, and number of departments where department has
more than 5 employees.
SELECT Country_name, city, COUNT(department_id) FROM Countries JOIN
locations USING (Country_id) JOIN Departments USING (Location_id)
WHERE Department_id IN (SELECT DEPARTMENT_ID From employees GROUP BY
department_id HAVING COUNT(department_id)>5)
GROUP BY country_name, city;

31. Display details of manager who manages more than 5 employees.

SELECT first_name from employees WHERE Employee_id IN
(SELECT manager_id from employees group by manager_id HAVING
COUNT(manager_id)>5)
;
32. Display employee name, job title, start date, and end date of past jobs of all
employees with commission percentage null.

SELECT first_name, job_title, start_date, end_date from job_history jh JOIN jobs

j USING (job_id) JOIN employees e on (jh.employee_id = e.employee_id)
WHERE commission_pct IS NULL;

33. Display the departments into which no employee joined in last two years.
SELECT * FROM departments WHERE department_id NOT IN
(SELECT department_id FROM employees WHERE
ROUND((SYSDATE – HIRE_DATE)/365) < 2);
34. Display the details of departments in which the max salary is greater than 10000
for employees who did a job in the past.
SELECT * from departments
WHERE department_id IN (SELECT DEPARTMENT_ID from employees
Where EMPLOYEE_ID IN (SELECT Employee_id from job_history)
GROUP BY Department_id HAVING MAX(Salary) > 10000)

35. Display details of current job for employees who worked as IT Programmers in
the past.
SELECT * from jobs where job_id IN (Select job_id from employees where
Employee_id IN (SELECT Employee_id from job_history where job_id =
'IT_PROG'));

36. Display the details of employees drawing the highest salary in the department.
SELECT first_name, department_id, salary, FROM employees e WHERE salary =
(SELECT MAX(Salary) from employees
WHERE department_id = e.department_id);

37. Display the city of employee whose employee ID is 105.

SELECT city from locations where location_id = (SELECT location_id from
departments WHERE department_id = (Select department_id from employees
where employee_id = 105 ));
;
38. Display third highest salary of all employees