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1 -- 1> Write a SQL query to find the nth highest salary from employee table.
2 -- Example: finding 3rd highest salary from employee table
3 select * from employee order by salary desc;
4 --- Limit N-1,1
5 select distinct salary from employee order by salary desc limit 2, 1;
6
7 -- 2> Write a SQL query to find top n records?
8 -- Example: finding top 5 records from employee table
9 select * from employee order by salary desc limit 5;
10
11 -- 3> Write a SQL query to find the count of employees working in department 'Admin'
12 select count(*) from employee where department = 'Admin';
13
14 -- 4> Write a SQL query to fetch department wise count employees sorted by department c
15 select * from employee;
16
17 select department, count(*) as employeecount
18 from employee
19 group by department
20 order by employeecount desc;
21
22 -- 5> Write a query to fetch only the first name(string before space) from the FullNam
23 select distinct(substring_index(full_names, ' ', 1)) first_name from user_name;
24
25 -- 6> Write a SQL query to find all the employees from employee table who are also mana
26 select e1.first_name, e2.last_name from employee e1
27 join employee e2
28 on e1.employee_id = e2.manager_id;
29
30 -- 7> Write a SQL query to find all employees who have bonus record in bonus table

31 select * from employee;

32 select * from bonus;
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34 select * from employee where employee_id in (select employee_ref_id from bonus where em
35
36 -- 8> Write a SQL query to find only odd rows from employee table
37 select * from employee where MOD(employee_id,2)<>0;
38
39 -- 9> Write a SQL query to fetch first_name from employee table in upper case
40 select upper(first_name) as First_Name from employee;
41
42 -- 10> Write a SQL query to get combine name (first name and last name) of employees fr
43 select concat(first_name, ' ' ,last_name) as Name from employee;
44
45 -- 11> Write a SQL query to print details of employee of employee 'Jennifer' and 'James
46 select * from employee where first_name in ('Jennifer', 'James');
47
48 -- 12> Write a SQL query to fetch records of employee whose salary lies between
49 select first_name, last_name, salary from employee where salary between 100000 and 5000
50
51 -- 13> Write a SQL query to get records of employe who have joined in Jan 2017
52 select * from employee;
53
54 select first_name, last_name, joining_date from employee where year(joining_date)=2017
55
56 -- 14> Write a SQL query to get the list of employees with the same salary
57 select e1.first_name, e2.last_name from employee e1, employee e2 where e1.salary = e2.s
58
59 -- 15> Write a SQL query to show all departments along with the number of people workin
60 select * from employee;
61
62 select department, count(*) as 'Number of employees' from employee
63 group by department
64 order by count(department);
65
66 -- 16> Write a SQL query to show the last record from a table.
67 select * from employee where employee_id = (select max(employee_id) from employee);
68
69 -- 17> Write a SQL query to show the first record from a table.
70 select * from employee where employee_id = (select min(employee_id) from employee);
71
72 -- 18> Write a SQL query to get last five records from a employee table.
73 (select * from employee order by employee_id desc limit 5) order by employee_id;
74
75 -- 19> Write a SQL query to find employees having the highest salary in each department
76 select first_name, last_name, department, max(salary) as 'Max Salary'from employee grou
77
78 -- 20> Write a SQL query to fetch three max salaries from employee table.
79 select distinct salary from employee order by salary desc limit 3 ;
80 -- OR-----
81 select distinct Salary from employee e1 WHERE 3 >= (SELECT count(distinct Salary) from
82

83 -- 21> Write a SQL query to fetch departments along with the total salaries paid for ea
84 select department, sum(salary) as 'Total Salary' from employee group by department orde
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85
86 -- 22> Write a SQL query to find employee with highest salary in an organization from e
87 select first_name, last_name from employee where salary = (select max(salary) from empl
88
89 -- 23> Write an SQL query that makes recommendations using the pages that your fri
90 -- Assume you have two tables: a two-column table of users and their friends, and a two
91 -- users and the pages they liked. It should not recommend pages you already like.
92
93 -- 24> write a SQL query to find employee (first name, last name, department and bonus)
94 select first_name, last_name, department, max(bonus_amount) from employee e
95 join bonus b
96 on e.employee_id = b.employee_ref_id
97 group by department
98 order by max(bonus_amount) desc limit 1;
99
100 -- 25> write a SQL query to find employees with same salary
101 select e1.first_name, e1.last_name, e1.salary from employee e1, employee e2
102 where e1.salary = e2.salary
103 and e1.employee_id != e2.employee_id;
104
105 -- 26> Write SQL to find out what percent of students attend school on their birthday f
106 select * from all_students;
107 select * from attendance_events;
108
109 select (count(attendance_events.student_id) * 100 / (select count(student_id) from atte
110 from attendance_events
111 join all_students
112 on all_students.student_id = attendance_events.student_id
113 where month(attendance_events.date_event) = month(all_students.date_of_birth)
114 and day(attendance_events.date_event) = day(all_students.date_of_birth);
115
116 -- 27> Given timestamps of logins, figure out how many people on Facebook were active a
117 -- of a week on a mobile phone from login info table?
118
119 select * from login_info;
120
121 select a.login_time, count(distinct a.user_id) from
122 login_info a
123 Left join login_info b
124 on a.user_id = b.user_id
125 where a.login_time = b.login_time - interval 1 day
126 group by 1;
127
128 -- 28> Write a SQL query to find out the overall friend acceptance rate for a given dat
129 select * from user_action;
130
131 select count(a.user_id_who_sent)*100 / (select count(user_id_who_sent) from user_action
132 from user_action a
133 join user_action b
134 on a.user_id_who_sent = b.user_id_who_sent and a.user_id_to_whom = b.user_id_to_whom

135 where a.date_action = '2018-05-24' and b.action = "accepted";

136
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137 -- 29> How many total users follow sport accounts from tables all_users, sport_accounts
138 select * from all_users;
139 select * from sport_accounts;
140 select * from follow_relation;
141
142 select count(distinct c.follower_id) as count_all_sports_followers
143 from sport_accounts a
144 join all_users b
145 on a.sport_player_id = b.user_id
146 join follow_relation c
147 on b.user_id = c.target_id;
148
149 -- 30> How many active users follow each type of sport?
150
151 select b.sport_category, count(a.user_id)
152 from all_users a
153 join sport_accounts b
154 on a.user_id = b.sport_player_id
155 join follow_relation c
156 on a.user_id = c.follower_id
157 where a.active_last_month =1
158 group by b.sport_category;
159
160 -- 31> What percent of active accounts are fraud from ad_accounts table?
161 select * from ad_accounts;
162
163 select count(distinct a.account_id)/(select count(account_id) from ad_accounts where ac
164 from ad_accounts a
165 join ad_accounts b
166 on a.account_id = b.account_id
167 where a.account_status = 'fraud' and b.account_status='active';
168
169 -- 32> How many accounts became fraud today for the first time from ad_accounts table?
170
171 select count(account_id) 'First time fraud accounts' from (
172 select distinct a.account_id, count(a.account_status)
173 from ad_accounts a
174 join ad_accounts b
175 on a.account_id = b.account_id
176 where b.date = curdate() and a.account_status = 'fraud'
177 group by account_id
178 having count(a.account_status) = 1) ad_accnt;
179
180 -- 33> Write a SQL query to determine avg time spent per user per day from user_details
181 select * from event_session_details;
182 select * from user_details;
183
184 select date, user_id, sum(timespend_sec)/count(*) as 'avg time spent per user per day'
185 from event_session_details
186 group by 1,2

187 order by 1;
188
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189 -- or --
190
191 select date, user_id, avg(timespend_sec)
192 from event_session_details
193 group by 1,2
194 order by 1;
195
196 -- 34> write a SQL query to find top 10 users that sent the most messages from messages
197 select * from messages_detail;
198
199 select user_id, messages_sent
200 from messages_detail
201 order by messages_sent desc
202 limit 10;
203
204 -- 35> Write a SQL query to find disctinct first name from full user name from usere_na
205 select * from user_name;
206
207 select distinct(substring_index(full_names, ' ', 1)) first_name from user_name;
208
209 -- 36> You have a table with userID, appID, type and timestamp. type is either 'click'
210 -- Calculate the click through rate from dialoglog table. Now do it in for each app.
211 -- click through rate is defined as (number of clicks)/(number of impressions)
212 select * from dialoglog;
213
214 select app_id
215 , ifnull(sum(case when type = 'click' then 1 else 0 end)*1.0
216 / sum(case when type = 'impression' then 1 else 0 end), 0 )AS 'CTR(click throug
217 from dialoglog
218 group by app_id;
219
220 -- 37> Given two tables Friend_request (requestor_id, sent_to_id, time),
221 -- Request_accepted (acceptor_id, requestor_id, time). Find the overall acceptance rate
222 -- Overall acceptate rate of requests = total number of acceptance / total number of re
223 select * from friend_request;
224 select * from request_accepted;
225
226 select ifnull(round(
227 (select count(*) from (select distinct acceptor_id, requestor_id from request_accepted)
228 /
229 (select count(*) from (select distinct requestor_id, sent_to_id from friend_request ) a
230 ) as basic;
231
232 -- 38> from a table of new_request_accepted, find a user with the most friends.
233 select * from new_request_accepted;
234
235 select id from
236 (
237 select id, count(*) as count
238 from (

239 select requestor_id as id from new_request_accepted

240 union all
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241 select acceptor_id as id from new_request_accepted) as a
242 group by 1
243 order by count desc
244 limit 1) as table1;
245
246 -- 39> from the table count_request, find total count of requests sent and total count
247 -- per country
248 select * from count_request;
249
250 select country_code, Total_request_sent, Total_percent_of_request_sent_failed,
251 cast((Total_request_sent*Total_percent_of_request_sent_failed)/100 as decimal) as Total
252 from
253 (
254 select country_code, sum(count_of_requests_sent) as Total_request_sent,
255 cast(replace(ifnull(sum(percent_of_request_sent_failed),0), '%','') as decimal(2,1)) as
256 from count_request
257 group by country_code
258 ) as Table1;
259
260 -- 40> create a histogram of duration on x axis, no of users on y axis which is populat
261 -- from event_session_details
262 select * from event_session_details;
263
264 select floor(timespend_sec/500)*500 as bucket,
265 count(distinct user_id) as count_of_users
266 from event_session_details
267 group by 1;
268
269 -- 41> Write SQL query to calculate percentage of confirmed messages from two tables :
270 -- confirmation_no (phone numbers that facebook sends the confirmation messages to) and
271 -- confirmed_no (phone numbers that confirmed the verification)
272
273 select round((count(confirmed_no.phone_number)/count(confirmation_no.phone_number))*100
274 from confirmation_no
275 left join confirmed_no
276 on confirmed_no.phone_number= confirmation_no.phone_number;
277
278 -- 42> Write SQL query to find number of users who had 4 or more than 4 interactions on
279 -- from user_interaction table (user_1, user_2, date).
280 -- assume there is only one unique interaction between a pair of users per day
281
282 select * from user_interaction;
283
284 select table1.user_id, sum(number_of_interactions) as Number_of_interactions
285 from
286 (
287 select user_1 as user_id, count(user_1) as number_of_interactions from user_interaction
288 group by user_1
289 union all
290 select user_2 as user_id, count(user_2) as number_of_interactions from user_interaction

291 group by user_2) table1

292 group by table1.user_id
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293 having sum(number_of_interactions) >= 4;
294
295 -- 43> write a sql query to find the names of all salesperson that have order with sams
296 -- the table: salesperson, customer, orders
297
298 select s.name
299 from salesperson s
300 join orders o on s.id = o.salesperson_id
301 join customer c on o.cust_id = c.id
302 where c.name = 'Samsonic';
303
304 -- 44> write a sql query to find the names of all salesperson that do not have any orde
305
306 select s.Name
307 from Salesperson s
308 where s.ID NOT IN(
309 select o.salesperson_id from Orders o, Customer c
310 where o.cust_id = c.ID
311 and c.Name = 'Samsonic');
312
313 -- 45> Wrie a sql query to find the names of salespeople that have 2 or more orders.
314 select s.name as 'salesperson', count(o.number) as 'number of orders'
315 from salesperson s
316 join orders o on s.id = o.salesperson_id
317 group by s.name
318 having count(o.number)>=2;
319
320 -- 46> Given two tables: User(user_id, name, phone_num) and UserHistory(user_id, date,
321 -- write a sql query that returns the name, phone number and most recent date for any u
322 -- over the last 30 days
323 -- (you can tell a user has logged in if action field in UserHistory is set to 'logged_
324
325 select user.name, user.phone_num, max(userhistory.date)
326 from user,userhistory
327 where user.user_id = userhistory.user_id
328 and userhistory.action = 'logged_on'
329 and userhistory.date >= date_sub(curdate(), interval 30 day)
330 group by user.name;
331
332 -- 47> Given two tables: User(user_id, name, phone_num) and UserHistory(user_id, date,
333 -- Write a SQL query to determine which user_ids in the User table are not contained in
334 -- (assume the UserHistory table has a subset of the user_ids in User table). Do not us
335 -- Note: the UserHistory table can have multiple entries for each user_id.
336 select user.user_id
337 from user
338 left join userhistory
339 on user.user_id = userhistory.user_id
340 where userhistory.user_id is null;
341
342 -- 48> from a given table compare(numbers int(4)), write a sql query that will return t

343 -- from the numbers without using

344 -- sql aggregate like max or min
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345
346 select numbers
347 from compare
348 order by numbers desc
349 limit 1;
350
351 -- 49> Write a SQL query to find out how many users inserted more than 1000 but less th
352 -- There is a startup company that makes an online presentation software and they have
353 -- an image into a presentation. one user can insert multiple images
354
355 select count(*) from
356 (select user_id, count(event_date_time) as image_per_user
357 from event_log
358 group by user_id) as image_per_user
359 where image_per_user <2000 and image_per_user>1000;
360
361 -- 50> select the most recent login time by values from the login_info table
362
363 select * from login_info
364 where login_time in (select max(login_time) from login_info
365 group by user_id)
366 order by login_time desc limit 1;

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