PostgreSQL Basic SELECT Statement: Get the number of employees working with the company

9. Write a query to get the number of employees working with the company.

Sample Solution:

Code:

-- Counting the total number of records (rows) in the employees table
SELECT COUNT(*) 
-- Selecting data from the employees table
FROM employees;

Explanation:

• This SQL code counts the total number of records (rows) in the "employees" table.
• The COUNT(*) function is used to count all records in the table.
• The result set will contain a single column with the total count of records in the employees table.

Sample table: employees

Output:

pg_exercises=# SELECT COUNT(*)
pg_exercises-# FROM employees;
 count
-------
   107
(1 row)

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