SQL Exercise: Employees joined with a as the 2nd character of a month
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108. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees who joined in the month of where the second letter is 'a'. Return number of employees.
Sample table: employees
Sample Solution:
SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE to_char(hire_date,'mon') LIKE '_a%';
Sample Output:
emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date | salary | commission | dep_id --------+----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+-------- 66928 | BLAZE | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-05-01 | 2750.00 | | 3001 68736 | ADNRES | CLERK | 67858 | 1997-05-23 | 1200.00 | | 2001 69324 | MARKER | CLERK | 67832 | 1992-01-23 | 1400.00 | | 1001 (3 rows)
Explanation:
The given query in SQL that selects all the columns and rows from the table 'employees' where the hire date has a month that starts with the letter "a".
The function TO_CHAR() converts the date in the "hire_date" column to a string representation of the month, and the LIKE operator with the pattern 'a%' matches any string that has a second character that is the letter "a". The underscore () represents any single character.
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