SQL Exercise: Employees who joined in a given month having char A

SQL employee Database: Exercise-114 with Solution

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114. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees who joined in any month, but the month name contain the character ‘A’. Return complete information about the employees.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE to_char (hire_date,'MONTH') 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
  65646 | JONAS    | MANAGER  |      68319 | 1991-04-02 | 2957.00 |            |   2001
  67858 | SCARLET  | ANALYST  |      65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 |            |   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
  68736 | ADNRES   | CLERK    |      67858 | 1997-05-23 | 1200.00 |            |   2001
  69324 | MARKER   | CLERK    |      67832 | 1992-01-23 | 1400.00 |            |   1001
(7 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that returns all rows where the "hire_date" month contains the letter "A" in any position within the month name from the 'employees' table. The "to_char" function converts the "hire_date" column to a string in the format "MONTH", which returns the full name of the month.

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Sample Database: employee

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