Tag: MySQL

Syntax to set EMPLOYEE_ID  as primary key in employee table.

ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE add CONSTRAINT EMPLOYEE_PK PRIMARY KEY(EMPLOYEE_ID)

Syntax to set 2 fields(EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME) as primary key in employee table.

ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE add CONSTRAINT EMPLOYEE_PK PRIMARY KEY(EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME)

Syntax to drop primary key on employee table.

ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE drop CONSTRAINT EMPLOYEE_PK

Syntax to create EMPLOYEE_REF_ID in INCENTIVES table as foreign key with respect to EMPLOYEE_ID in employee table.

ALTER TABLE INCENTIVES ADD CONSTRAINT INCENTIVES_FK FOREIGN KEY(EMPLOYEE_REF_ID) REFERENCES EMPLOYEE(EMPLOYEE_ID)

Syntax to drop foreign key on employee table.

ALTER TABLE INCENTIVES drop CONSTRAINT INCENTIVES_FK

Query to select TOP 2 salary from employee table.

select * from employee order by salary desc limit 2

Query to select TOP N salary from employee table.

select * from employee order by salary desc limit N

Query to select 2nd Highest salary from employee table.

select min(SALARY) from 
(select * from employee order by salary desc limit 2) a

Query to select Nth Highest salary from employee table.

select min(SALARY) from 
(select * from employee order by salary desc limit N) a

Query to select First_Name, Last_Name from employee table as separate rows.

select FIRST_NAME from EMPLOYEE union select LAST_NAME from EMPLOYEE

Query to select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for those employees who have incentives.

select FIRST_NAME, INCENTIVE_AMOUNT from employee A inner join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID

Query to select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for those employees who have incentives and incentive amount greater than 3000.

select FIRST_NAME, INCENTIVE_AMOUNT from employee A inner join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID and INCENTIVE_AMOUNT > 3000

Query to select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for all employees even if they didn’t get incentives.

select FIRST_NAME, INCENTIVE_AMOUNT from employee A left join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID

Query to select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for all employees even if they didn’t get incentives and set incentive amount as 0 for those employees who didn’t get incentives.

select FIRST_NAME, IFNULL(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,0) from employee A left join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID

Query to select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for all employees who got incentives using right join.

select FIRST_NAME, IFNULL(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,0) from employee A right join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID

Query to select max incentive with respect to employee from employee and incentives table using sub query.

select DEPARTMENT,(select IFNULL(max(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT),0) from INCENTIVES where EMPLOYEE_REF_ID=EMPLOYEE_ID) Max_incentive from EMPLOYEE

Query to obtain cumulative sum or running total from employee table for salary column.

     select Employee_id, Salary,
     SUM(Salary) OVER (ORDER BY Employee_id) 
     As RunningTotal
     from employee;

Query to obtain 1st generation and 3rd generation combination based on 2nd and 3rd generation.

Family table

Father | Son

J | K

K | L

M | N

N | O

SELECT m1.Father AS GrandFather, m2.Son AS GrandSon FROM 
Family m1 join family m2 ON m1.son = m2.father;

Result

Grandfather | Grandson

J | L

K | N

M | O

Query to get department, total salary with respect to a department from employee table.

select DEPARTMENT, sum(SALARY) Total_Salary 
from employee 
group by department

Query to get department, total salary with respect to a department from employee table order by total salary descending.

select DEPARTMENT, sum(SALARY) Total_Salary 
from employee 
group by department 
order by Total_Salary desc

Query to get department, number of employees in a department, total salary with respect to a department from employee table order by total salary descending.

select DEPARTMENT, count(FIRST_NAME), 
sum(SALARY) Total_Salary 
from employee 
group by department 
order by Total_Salary desc

Query to get department wise average salary from employee table order by salary ascending.

select DEPARTMENT, avg(SALARY) AvgSalary 
from employee 
group by department 
order by AvgSalary asc

Query to get department wise maximum salary from employee table order by salary ascending.

select DEPARTMENT, max(SALARY) MaxSalary
from employee
group by department
order by MaxSalary asc

Query to get department wise minimum salary from employee table order by salary ascending.

select DEPARTMENT, min(SALARY) MinSalary
from employee
group by department
order by MinSalary asc

Query to select number of employees joined with respect to year and month from employee table.

select year(JOINING_DATE) Join_Year, 
month(JOINING_DATE) Join_Month, 
count(*) Total_Emp 
from employee 
group by year(JOINING_DATE), month(JOINING_DATE)

Query to select department, total salary with respect to a department from employee table where total salary greater than 800000 order by Total_Salary descending.

select department, sum(SALARY) Total_Salary 
from employee
group by department
having sum(SALARY) > 800000 
order by Total_Salary desc