Here are eight famous people:
Id | First Name | Last Name | Year of Birth | Year of Death |
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1 | Marilyn | Monroe | 1926 | 1962 |
2 | Abraham | Lincoln | 1809 | 1865 |
3 | Nelson | Mandela | 1918 | 2013 |
4 | Winston | Churchill | 1874 | 1965 |
5 | Bill | Gates | 1955 | – |
6 | Charles | Darwin | 1809 | 1882 |
7 | Pele | – | 1940 | – |
8 | Fidel | Castro | 1926 | – |
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Using your favorite DB client, design and create a database table called
people
that would store the information presented above (create a database first if you don’t have any existing ones to play with). Don’t bother with creating any keys or indices for now, just create the five columns. Copy and paste the SQL query generated by the client below (it should start withcreate table
or something similar; if it is difficult to find the query generated by your client, ask for assistance):CREATE TABLE ...
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Manually create a query or a series of queries that would fill the table with the information above. Put the query/queries below:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return everything from the table:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return a single row: the person with the ID of 5.
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return the four people with the following IDs: 1, 3, 7, 8.
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return all the people except the person with the ID of 4 (
Winston Churchill
).... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would select the first names and last names of the people who were born after 1920:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would select the IDs of the living people:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return the years of birth and the years of death of everyone who has died. The columns should be aliased
b
andd
respectively.... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return the list of all years of birth, without repetition:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would select the people with either their first or last name starting with an
M
:... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would select the people with both their first and last name starting with an
M
:... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would select all the people except those whose last name starts with a
C
:... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would select the people whose first name starts with a letter that precedes
M
in the English alphabet:... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return all the people sorted by their last name alphabetically:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return the first names of the people sorted in the reverse alphabetical order. The column should be aliased
fn
.... here goes your SQL ...
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Create a query that would return the people sorted by their year of birth in the descending order, and then (if two or more people share the same year of birth) by their last name alphabetically:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Set everyone’s last name to your last name:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Update the first name of everyone who was born before 1900 to your favorite character’s name:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Add 1 to both the year of birth and year of death for everyone whose ID is less than 5:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Delete from the table everyone who died before 2000:
... here goes your SQL ...
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Delete everyone from the table:
... here goes your SQL ...
Don’t forget to create a pull request.