SQL Exercise: Employees who earn more than 100 as daily salary

SQL employee Database: Exercise-29 with Solution

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29. From the following table, write a SQL query to find out which employees earn more than 100 per day as a salary. Return employee ID, employee name, salary, and experience.

Sample table: employees

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Sample Solution:

SELECT emp_id,
       emp_name,
       salary,
       age(CURRENT_DATE, hire_date) "Experience"
FROM employees
WHERE (salary/30)>100;

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | salary  |       Experience
--------+----------+---------+-------------------------
  68319 | KAYLING  | 6000.00 | 26 years 2 mons 12 days
  67858 | SCARLET  | 3100.00 | 20 years 9 mons 11 days
  69062 | FRANK    | 3100.00 | 26 years 1 mon 27 days
(3 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects the "emp_id", "emp_name", "salary", and experience (in years and months) from the 'employees' table and filters the results based on a calculation using the "salary" column.

The experience of the employee in years and months, calculated using the "age" function applied to the "hire_date" column.

The WHERE clause filters the results to include only those employees whose daily salary (calculated by dividing the monthly salary by 30) is greater than 100.

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Sample Database: employee

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