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query in detail so that everyone will get idea of how it is executed
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Examples with answers in detail.

Complex SQL Queries Examples ( 90%

ASKED IN Interviews ) 
[Link] to nd Second Highest Salary of Employee?(click for
explaination)

Answer:

Select distinct Salary from Employee e1 where

2=Select count(distinct Salary) from Employee e2
where [Link]<=[Link];

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select min(salary)from(select distinct salary from emp

order by salary desc)where rownum<=2;

[Link] to nd duplicate rows in table?(click here for

explaination )

Answer :

Select * from Employee a where rowid <>( select

max(rowid) from Employee b where
a.Employee_num=b.Employee_num);

[Link] to fetch  monthly Salary of Employee if annual salary is

given?(click here for Explaination) 

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Answer:

   Select Employee_name,Salary/12 as ‘Monthly Salary’

from employee;

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[Link] is the Query to fetch rst record from Employee table?

(90% asked Complex SQL Queries Examples)

Answer:

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 Select * from Employee where Rownum =1;

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[Link] is the Query to fetch last record from the table?

Answer:

Select * from Employee where Rowid= select

max(Rowid) from Employee;

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[Link] is Query to display rst 5 Records from Employee table?

(90% asked Complex SQL Queries Examples)

Answer:

Select * from Employee where Rownum <= 5;

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[Link] is Query to display last 5 Records from Employee table?

(90% asked Complex SQL Queries Examples)

Answer:

Select * from Employee e where rownum <=5

union

select * from (Select * from Employee e order by rowid

desc) where rownum <=5;

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[Link] is Query to display Nth Record from Employee table?

Answer :

select * from ( select a.*, rownum rnum from (

YOUR_QUERY_GOES_HERE — including the order by ) a
where rownum <= N_ROWS ) where rnum >= N_ROWS

[Link] to get 3 Highest salaries records from Employee table?

Answer:

select distinct salary from employee a where 3 >= (select

count(distinct salary) from employee b where [Link] <=
[Link]) order by [Link] desc;

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select min(salary)from(select distinct salary from emp

order by salary desc)where rownum<=3;

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[Link] to Display Odd rows in Employee table?(90% asked

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Answer:

Select * from(Select rownum as rno,E.* from Employee E)

where Mod(rno,2)=1;

[Link] to Display Even rows in Employee table?

Answer:

Select * from(Select rownum as rno,E.* from Employee)

where Mod(rno,2)=0;

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[Link] to fetch 3rd highest salary using Rank Function?

Answer:

select * from (Select Dense_Rank() over ( order by  salary

desc) as Rnk,E.* from Employee E) where Rnk=3;

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[Link] Can i create table with same structure of Employee

table?(90% asked Complex SQL Queries Examples)

Answer:

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Create table Employee_1 as Select * from Employee

where 1=2;

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Answer:
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select rownum, e.* from emp e where rownum<=(select

count(*)/2 from emp);

[Link] last 50% records from Employee table?

Answer:

Select rownum,E.* from Employee E

minus

Select rownum,E.* from Employee E where rownum<=

(Select count(*)/2) from Employee);

[Link] Can i create table with same structure with data of

Employee table?

Answer:

Create table Employee1 as select * from Employee;

[Link] do i fetch only common records between 2 tables.

Answer:

Select * from Employee;

Intersect

Select * from Employee1;

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[Link] Query to get information of Employee where Employee

is not assigned to the department

Answer:

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Department_no from Department);

[Link] to get distinct records from the table without using

distinct keyword.

Answer:

select * from Employee a where  rowid = (select

max(rowid) from Employee b where 
a.Employee_no=b.Employee_no);

[Link] all records from Employee table whose name is ‘Amit’

and ‘Pradnya’

Answer:

Select * from Employee where Name in(‘Amit’,’Pradnya’);

[Link] all records from Employee table where name not in

‘Amit’ and ‘Pradnya’

Answer:

select * from Employee where name Not  in

(‘Amit’,’Pradnya’);

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[Link] to write sql query for the below scenario

I/p:ORACLE

O/p:
O
R
A
C
L
E
i.e, splitting into multiple columns a string using sql.

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Answer:
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Select Substr(‘ORACLE’,Level,1) From Dual

Connect By Level<= Length(‘ORACLE’);

[Link] to fetch all the records from Employee whose joining

year is  2017?

Answer:

Oracle:

select * from Employee where

To_char(Joining_date,’YYYY’)=’2017′;

MS SQL:

select * from Employee where

substr(convert(varchar,Joining_date,103),7,4)=’2017′;

[Link] is SQL Query to nd maximum salary of each

department?

Answer:

Select Dept_id,max(salary) from Employee group by

Dept_id;

[Link] Do you nd all Employees with its managers?(Consider

there is manager id also in Employee table)

Answer:

Select e.employee_name,[Link] name from

Employee e,Employee m where
e.Employee_id=m.Manager_id;

[Link] the name of employees who have joined in 2016 and

salary is greater than 10000?

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Answer:
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Select name from Employee where Hire_Date like

‘2016%’ and salary>10000;

[Link] to display following using query?

**

***

Answer:

We cannot use dual table to display output given above. To

display output use any table. I am using Student table.

SELECT lpad (‘*’, ROWNUM,’*’) FROM Student WHERE

ROWNUM <4;

[Link] to add the email validation using only one query?

Answer :

User needs to use REGEXP_LIKE function for email validation.

 SELECT
Email
FROM
Employee
where NOT REGEXP_LIKE(Email, ‘[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-
Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}’, ‘i’);

[Link] to display 1 to 100 Numbers with query?

Answer:

Select level from dual connect by level <=100;

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Tip: User needs to know the concept of Hierarchical queries.

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[Link] to remove duplicate rows from table?(100% asked

in Complex SQL Queries for Interviews)

Answer:

First Step: Selecting Duplicate rows from table

Tip: Use concept of max (rowid) of table. Click here to get

concept of rowid.

Select rollno FROM Student WHERE ROWID <>

(Select max (rowid) from Student b where

rollno=[Link]);

Step 2:  Delete duplicate rows

Delete FROM Student WHERE ROWID <>

(Select max (rowid) from Student b where

rollno=[Link]);

[Link] to nd count of duplicate rows? (95% asked in SQL

queries for Interviews )

Answer:

Select rollno, count (rollno) from Student

Group by rollno

Having count (rollno)>1

Order by count (rollno) desc;

[Link] to Find the Joining date of Employee in YYYY-DAY-

Date format.

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JoinYear , to_char(joining_date,’Mon’),
to_char(joining_date,’dd’) from EMPLOYEES;

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