SQL Exercise: List the Employees whose names end with S and length 6

SQL employee Database: Exercise-113 with Solution

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113. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees whose name ends with 'S' and six characters long. Return complete information about the employees.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE emp_name LIKE '%S'
  AND LENGTH (emp_name) = 6;

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date  | salary  | commission | dep_id
--------+----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+--------
  68736 | ADNRES   | CLERK    |      67858 | 1997-05-23 | 1200.00 |            |   2001
  69000 | JULIUS   | CLERK    |      66928 | 1991-12-03 | 1050.00 |            |   3001
(2 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that returns all rows where the "emp_name" column ends with the letter "S" and has a length of 6 characters from the "employees" table. The "%" symbol is used as a wildcard to match any sequence of characters before the "S" character.

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Sample Database: employee

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