SQL Exercise: List the employees whose names containing the letter A
SQL employee Database: Exercise-112 with Solution
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112. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees whose names contain the letter 'A’. Return complete information about the employees.
Sample table: employees
Sample Solution:
SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE emp_name LIKE '%A%';
Sample Output:
emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date | salary | commission | dep_id --------+----------+-----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+-------- 68319 | KAYLING | PRESIDENT | | 1991-11-18 | 6000.00 | | 1001 66928 | BLAZE | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-05-01 | 2750.00 | | 3001 67832 | CLARE | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-06-09 | 2550.00 | | 1001 65646 | JONAS | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-04-02 | 2957.00 | | 2001 67858 | SCARLET | ANALYST | 65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 | | 2001 69062 | FRANK | ANALYST | 65646 | 1991-12-03 | 3100.00 | | 2001 63679 | SANDRINE | CLERK | 69062 | 1990-12-18 | 900.00 | | 2001 64989 | ADELYN | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-02-20 | 1700.00 | 400.00 | 3001 65271 | WADE | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-02-22 | 1350.00 | 600.00 | 3001 66564 | MADDEN | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-09-28 | 1350.00 | 1500.00 | 3001 68736 | ADNRES | CLERK | 67858 | 1997-05-23 | 1200.00 | | 2001 69324 | MARKER | CLERK | 67832 | 1992-01-23 | 1400.00 | | 1001 (12 rows)
Explanation:
The said query in SQL returns all rows where the "emp_name" column contains the letter "A" in any position within the string from the ‘employees’ table. The "%" symbol is a wildcard that matches any sequence of characters.
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