Set Operations

By Dr. Ghazi Al-Naymat

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Company DB

• Note: In the forthcoming SQL statements, all table names used C_[tablename] this is
used because I have other tables with similar names to the tables in the company DB
example.

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Union Example
• List the Lname of all employees who have dependents or working on
project ProductY?
• We break out the question for demonstration purposes
1- List the Lname of all employees who have dependents

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2- working on project ProductY?

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3- List the Lname of all employees who have dependents or working on
project ProductY?: Using Union

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Output

Union =

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In case if we use AND, OR instead of
UNION
• Or

….
• And

• Both wrong output.

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Intersect Example
• Make a list of all project numbers for projects that involve an
employee whose last name is 'Smith' and an employee whose last
name is ‘Wong’ as workers.

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In case if we use AND, OR instead of
INTERSECT

BOTH WRONG!

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MINUS (EXCEPT) Example
• Make a list of all project numbers for projects that involve an
employee whose last name is 'Smith' but not an employee
whose last name is ‘Wong’ as workers.

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In case if we use AND, OR instead of
MINUS

BOTH WRONG!

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