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SQL Exercise: Employee start with 'A' and end with 'N', length six

SQL employee Database: Exercise-107 with Solution

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107. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees whose name is six characters in length, starting with 'A' and ending with 'N'. Return number of employees.

Sample table: employees


Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE length(emp_name)=6
  AND emp_name LIKE 'A%N';

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date  | salary  | commission | dep_id
--------+----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+--------
  64989 | ADELYN   | SALESMAN |      66928 | 1991-02-20 | 1700.00 |     400.00 |   3001
(1 row)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects all columns of employees whose names have a length of 6 characters and start with the letter 'A' and end with the letter 'N' from the employees table.

With the WHERE clause, the length() function is used to verify that emp_name contains exactly six characters, and the LIKE operator is used to match names that begin with A and end with 'N'.

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Sample Database: employee

employee database structure

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SQL: Tips of the Day

Grouped LIMIT in PostgreSQL: Show the first N rows for each group?

db=# SELECT * FROM xxx;
 id | section_id | name
----+------------+------
  1 |          1 | A
  2 |          1 | B
  3 |          1 | C
  4 |          1 | D
  5 |          2 | E
  6 |          2 | F
  7 |          3 | G
  8 |          2 | H
(8 rows)

I need the first 2 rows (ordered by name) for each section_id, i.e. a result similar to:

id | section_id | name
----+------------+------
  1 |          1 | A
  2 |          1 | B
  5 |          2 | E
  6 |          2 | F
  7 |          3 | G
(5 rows)

PostgreSQL v9.3 you can do a lateral join

select distinct t_outer.section_id, t_top.id, t_top.name from t t_outer
join lateral (
    select * from t t_inner
    where t_inner.section_id = t_outer.section_id
    order by t_inner.name
    limit 2
) t_top on true
order by t_outer.section_id;

Database: PostgreSQL

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