University of Washington CSE 154

Section 5: SQL Queries

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Query Testers

The major query tester is located here.

If webster is down, you can also access this query tester as a backup here.

world database (by Sylvia Tashev, Stefanie Hatcher)

• to test queries on this database, use username traveler, password packmybags

Exercise : World Official Languages

List all of the official languages spoken around the world in reverse alphabetical order.

+------------------+
| language         |
+------------------+
| Zulu             |
| Xhosa            |
| Wolof            |
| Vietnamese       |
| Uzbek            |
...
+------------------+
102 rows in set (0.02 sec)

Exercise Solution

SELECT DISTINCT language
FROM languages
WHERE official='T'
ORDER BY language DESC;

Exercise : Republics

What countries have the word Republic as part of their name?

+---------------------------------------+
| name                                  |
+---------------------------------------+
| Dominican Republic                    |
| Central African Republic              |
| Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
| Czech Republic                        |
+---------------------------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Exercise Solution

SELECT name
FROM countries
WHERE name LIKE '%Republic%';

Exercise : Not In Africa

List all countries that are not in Africa.

+----------------------------------------------+
| name                                         |
+----------------------------------------------+
| Afghanistan                                  |
| Netherlands                                  |
| Netherlands Antilles                         |
| Albania                                      |
| American Samoa                               |
...
+----------------------------------------------+
181 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Exercise Solution

SELECT name
FROM countries
WHERE continent != 'Africa';

SELECT name
FROM countries 
WHERE continent <> 'Africa';

Exercise : Low GDP

Which countries have a GNP between $10,000 AND $50,000?

+------------------------+----------+
| name                   | gnp      |
+------------------------+----------+
| Algeria                | 49982.00 |
| United Arab Emirates   | 37966.00 |
| Bangladesh             | 32852.00 |
| Brunei                 | 11705.00 |
| Bulgaria               | 12178.00 |
...
+------------------------+----------+
36 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Exercise Solution

SELECT name, gnp
FROM countries
WHERE gnp BETWEEN 10000 AND 50000;

SELECT name, gnp
FROM countries
WHERE gnp < 50000
AND gnp > 10000;

Exercise : Dense Populations

Which countries have the densest population (population divided by surface area)? Show the densest ones at the top.

+--------------+------------+--------------+--------------------+
| name         | population | surface_area | population_density |
+--------------+------------+--------------+--------------------+
| Macao        |     473000 |        18.00 |       26277.777778 |
| Monaco       |      34000 |         1.50 |       22666.666667 |
| Hong Kong    |    6782000 |      1075.00 |        6308.837209 |
| Singapore    |    3567000 |       618.00 |        5771.844660 |
| Gibraltar    |      25000 |         6.00 |        4166.666667 |
...
+--------------+------------+--------------+--------------------+
239 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Exercise Solution

SELECT name, population, surface_area,
       population / surface_area as population_density
FROM countries
ORDER BY population_density DESC;

Exercise : English Speaking Countries

List the full names of all countries where English is spoken as an official language. Do this as a single query. (JOIN) Expected results:

+--------------------------------------+
| name                                 |
+--------------------------------------+
| American Samoa                       |
| Anguilla                             |
| Antigua and Barbuda                  |
| Australia                            |
| Barbados                             |
...
+--------------------------------------+
44 rows in set (0.02 sec)

Exercise Solution

SELECT c.name
FROM countries c
JOIN languages l on l.country_code = c.code
WHERE l.language = 'English' AND l.official = 'T';