1.

SELECT Count(OrderID), ProductID, AVG(Quantity) from OrderDetails

group by ProductID
Having SUM(Quantity)>60
The above query is simply a pivot table.
2. Useful inner join query: shows the customername and their orders.
SELECT OrderID, Customername from
(Orders
INNER JOIN Customers
ON Orders.CustomerID=Customers.CustomerID)
the above query is simply a VLOOKUP which can be breaken down in to two steps:
1. find the join of 2 tables
2. pick all the columns you like from that joined table.
Step 1 query would be like:
SELECT * from Orders
INNER JOIN Customers
ON Orders.CustomerID=Customers.CustomerID
Step 2 would be like:
Select Customername, OrderId from (SELECT * from Orders
INNER JOIN Customers
ON Orders.CustomerID=Customers.CustomerID
)
3. Useless query: shows the customers who have ordered any order.
SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID
FROM Customers
INNER JOIN Orders
ON Customers.CustomerID=Orders.CustomerID
ORDER BY Customers.CustomerName;
4. SELF JOIN
select e1.ename junior, e2.ename senior from (emp e1
inner join emp e2
on e1.mgr=e2.empno);
5. SEE HOW MANY STAFF UNDER EACH MGR
select count(e1.ename) junior_count, e2.ename senior from (emp e1
inner join emp e2
on e1.mgr=e2.empno)
group by e2.ename;
6. SELECT THE TOP 5 ROWS from table sorted by ENAME:
SELECT ename
FROM EMp o
WHERE ((SELECT count(*) FROM EMP i WHERE i.ename < o.ename) < 5)
order by ename
7. FIND OUT HOW MANY TIMES TEAM IN TEAM1 COLUMN Became winners
select count(ipl1.team1) from
(ipl ipl1 inner join ipl ipl2
on ipl1.team1=ipl2.winner)
group by ipl1.team1
8. TEAM with 3 WINS in IPL
select winning_team from (
select count(*) wins, ipl1.team1 winning_team from
ipl ipl1
where ipl1.team1=ipl1.winner
group by ipl1.team1)ipl_extension
where wins=3
9. Find MAX salary without using max function
select sal from emp i
where ((select count(*) from emp o where i.sal<o.sal)<1)
10. Find the Nth max salary
Just extend the previous query for that.
11. Queries on this link: http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/database-
sql/advanced-sql-interview-questions-and-answers
11.1
WRONG QUERY:
SELECT Name
FROM Orders
inner join Salesperson
on Orders.salesperson_id = Salesperson.ID
GROUP BY salesperson_id
Why so? well SQL would not know if it should return the count, max, min or avg o
f the column name. Simple!
RIGHT QUERY:
SELECT Name
FROM Orders
inner join Salesperson
on Orders.salesperson_id = Salesperson.ID
GROUP BY salesperson_id,name
does same work as:
Select name from Salesperson where Id IN (select Distinct salesperson_id from Or
ders)
11.2
12. Cartesian product: select * from emp,ipl