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Answers to 50 NorthWind Database Practice Queries using
c
MySQL
NB: Please note that the default order for sorting queries/column in SQL is ASC when using the ORDER BY clause.

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS northwind;

USE northwind;

1. SELECT CategoryName, Description

FROM northwind.categories
ORDER BY CategoryName;

2. SELECT ContactName, CompanyName, ContactTitle, Phone

From northwind.customers
ORDER BY Phone;

3. SELECT UPPER(FirstName) AS FirstName, UPPER( LastName) AS LastName, HireDate

FROM northwind.employees
ORDER BY HireDate;

4. SELECT OrderID, OrderDate, ShippedDate, CustomerID, Freight

FROM northwind.orders
ORDER BY Freight Desc
LIMIT 10;

5. SELECT lower(CustomerID) AS ID
FROM northwind.customers;

6. SELECT CompanyName, Fax, Phone,Country, HomePage

FROM northwind.suppliers
ORDER BY Country DESC, CompanyName ;

7. SELECT CompanyName,ContactName
FROM northwind.customers
WHERE City = 'Buenos Aires';

8. SELECT "ProductName", "UnitPrice", QuantityPerUnit"

FROM "Products"
WHERE "UnitsInStock" = 0

9. SELECT ContactName, Address, City

FROM northwind.customers
WHERE Country NOT IN ("Germany","Mexico", "Spain");

10. SELECT OrderDate, ShippedDate, CustomerID, Freight

FROM northwind.orders
WHERE OrderDate = '1996-05-21 ';

11. SELECT FirstName,LastName,Country

FROM northwind.employees
WHERE Country <> 'USA';

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 12. SELECT EmployeeID,OrderID,CustomerID,RequiredDate,ShippedDate
FROM northwind.orders
WHERE ShippedDate > RequiredDate;

13. SELECT City,CompanyName,ContactName

FROM northwind.customers
WHERE City LIKE "A%" OR City LIKE "B%";

14. SELECT OrderID

FROM northwind.orders
WHERE mod(OrderID,2)=0;

15. SELECT *
FROM northwind.orders
WHERE Freight > 500;

16. SELECT ProductName, UnitsInStock,UnitsOnOrder,ReorderLevel

FROM northwind.products
WHERE ReorderLevel = 0;

17. SELECT CompanyName,ContactName,Fax

FROM northwind.customers
WHERE Fax IS NULL;

18. SELECT FirstName, LastName

FROM northwind.employees
WHERE ReportsTo IS NULL;

19. SELECT OrderID

FROM northwind.orders
WHERE mod(OrderID,2)=1;

20. SELECT CompanyName,ContactName,Fax

FROM northwind.customers
WHERE Fax IS NULL
ORDER BY ContactName;

21. SELECT City,CompanyName,ContactName,city

FROM northwind.customers
WHERE City LIKE "%L%"
ORDER BY ContactName;

22. SELECT FirstName, LastName,BirthDate

FROM northwind.employees
where BirthDate >= '1950-01-01'
AND BirthDate < '1960-01-01';

OR

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 SELECT FirstName, LastName,BirthDate
FROM northwind.employees
where BirthDate Between '1950-01-01'
AND '1959-12-31';

23. SELECT LastName, FirstName, extract(year from Birthdate) AS BirthYear

FROM northwind.employees;

24. SELECT OrderID, count(OrderID) as NumberofOrders

FROM northwind.`order details`
GROUP BY OrderID
ORDER BY NumberofOrders DESC ;

25. SELECT s.SupplierID, p.ProductName, S.CompanyName

FROM northwind.suppliers s
JOIN northwind.products p
ON s.SupplierID = p.SupplierID
WHERE s.CompanyName IN ('Exotic Liquids','Specialty Biscuits, Ltd.','Escargots Nouveaux')
ORDER BY s.SupplierID;

26. SELECT ShipPostalCode, OrderID, OrderDate, RequiredDate, ShippedDate,ShipAddress

FROM northwind.orders
WHERE ShipPostalCode = '98124';

27. SELECT ContactName, ContactTitle, CompanyName

FROM northwind.customers
WHERE ContactTitle NOT LIKE "%Sales%";

28. SELECT LastName, FirstName, City

FROM northwind.employees
WHERE City != "Seattle";

29. SELECT CompanyName, ContactTitle, City, Country

FROM northwind.customers
WHERE Country IN ("Mexico","Spain")
AND City <> "Madrid";

30. SELECT CONCAT( FirstName,' ', LastName ,' can be reached at ', 'x',Extension ) AS Contactinfo
FROM northwind.employees;

31. SELECT ContactName

FROM northwind.customers
where ContactName NOT like "_A%";

32. SELECT round (avg (UnitPrice),0) AS AveragePrice,

SUM(UnitsInStock) AS TotalStock,
max(UnitsOnOrder) as MaxOrder
FROM northwind.products;

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 33. SELECT s.SupplierID, s.CompanyName, c.CategoryName, p.ProductName, p.UnitPrice
FROM northwind.products p
JOIN northwind.suppliers s
ON s.SupplierID = p.SupplierID
JOIN northwind.categories C
On c.CategoryID = p.CategoryID;

34. SELECT CustomerID, sum(Freight)

FROM northwind.orders
GROUP BY CustomerID
HAVING sum(Freight) > "200";

35. SELECT od.OrderID, c.ContactName,od.UnitPrice,od.Quantity,od.Discount

FROM northwind.`order details` od
JOIN northwind.orders o
ON od.OrderID = o.OrderID
JOIN northwind.customers c
ON c.CustomerID = o.CustomerID
WHERE od.Discount != '0';

36. SELECT a.EmployeeID,

CONCAT (a.LastName, " " ,a.FirstName )as employee,
CONCAT (b.LastName," " , b.FirstName ) as manager
FROM northwind.employees a
LEFT JOIN northwind.employees b
ON b.EmployeeID = a.ReportsTo
ORDER BY a.EmployeeID;

37. SELECT avg(UnitPrice) AS AveragePrice,

min(UnitPrice)AS MinimumPrice,
max(UnitPrice)AS MaximumPrice
from northwind.products;

38. CREATE VIEW CustomerInfo AS

SELECT c.CustomerID, c.CompanyName, c.ContactName, c.ContactTitle, c.Address,
c.City,c.Country,c.Phone,o.OrderDate, o.RequiredDate, o.ShippedDate
FROM
northwind.customers c
JOIN
northwind.orders o
ON c.CustomerID = o.CustomerID;

39. RENAME TABLE customerinfo TO CustomerDetails;

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 40. CREATE VIEW ProductDetails AS
SELECT
p.ProductID,S.CompanyName,
p.ProductName,c.CategoryName, c.Description,
p.QuantityPerUnit, p.UnitPrice, p.UnitsInStock, p.UnitsOnOrder,
p.ReorderLevel, p.Discontinued
FROM northwind.suppliers s
JOIN northwind.products p ON s.SupplierID = p.SupplierID
JOIN northwind.categories c
ON c.CategoryID = p.CategoryID;

41. DROP VIEW IF EXISTS customerdetails;

42. SELECT substring(CategoryName,1,5) as Short_info

FROM northwind.categories;

43. DROP table IF exists shippers_dup;

CREATE TABLE shippers_dup (LIKE northwind.shippers);
INSERT INTO shippers_dup SELECT * FROM northwind.shippers;

44. ALTER TABLE shippers_dup

ADD column Email VARCHAR(50);

UPDATE northwind.shippers_dup
SET Email ='speedyexpress@gmail.com'
WHERE ShipperID = '1';

UPDATE northwind.shippers_dup
SET Email ='unitedpackage@gmail.com'
WHERE ShipperID = '2';

UPDATE northwind.shippers_dup
SET Email ='federalshipping@gmail.com'
WHERE ShipperID = '3';

45. SELECT s.CompanyName,p.ProductName

FROM northwind.categories c
JOIN northwind.products p
ON c.CategoryID = p.CategoryID
JOIN northwind.suppliers s
ON s.SupplierID = p.SupplierID
WHERE CategoryName = "Seafood";

46. SELECT c.CategoryID, s.CompanyName, p.ProductName

FROM northwind.categories c
JOIN northwind.products p
ON c.CategoryID = p.CategoryID
JOIN northwind.suppliers s
ON s.SupplierID = p.SupplierID
WHERE c.CategoryID = "5";

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 47. DROP table IF exists shippers_dup;

48. SELECT LastName, FirstName, Title,DATE_FORMAT(FROM_DAYS(DATEDIFF(CURRENT_DATE, BirthDate)),"%y Years ")

AS Age from northwind.employees;

49. SELECT c.CompanyName, count(c.CustomerID) AS NumberofOrders

FROM northwind.customers c
JOIN northwind.orders o
ON o.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
WHERE o.OrderDate >= '1994-12-31'
GROUP BY c.CustomerID
having count(c.CustomerID) > 10;

50. SELECT CONCAT( ProductName,' ', "weighs/is" ," ", QuantityPerUnit, " ", "and cost ","$",ROUND(UnitPrice) ) AS
ProductInfo
FROM northwind.products;

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