SQL Exercise: Display the unique designations for the employees
SQL employee Database: Exercise-3 with Solution
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3. From the following table, write a SQL query to find the unique designations of the employees. Return job name.
Sample table: employees
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Sample Solution:
SELECT DISTINCT job_name
FROM employees;
Sample Output:
job_name ----------- CLERK SALESMAN MANAGER PRESIDENT ANALYST (5 rows)
Explanation:
The said query in SQL that retrieves all distinct (unique) values in the "job_name" column of the 'employees' table .
The DISTINCT keyword eliminates duplicate values from the result set, so this query will only return a list of unique job names that are stored in the 'employees' table.
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SQL: Tips of the Day
Concatenate strings of a string field in a PostgreSQL 'group by' query:
Input:
ID COMPANY_ID EMPLOYEE 1 1 Anna 2 1 Bill 3 2 Carol 4 2 Dave
SELECT company_id, string_agg(employee, ', ') FROM mytable GROUP BY company_id;
Output:
COMPANY_ID EMPLOYEE 1 Anna, Bill 2 Carol, Dave
Database: PostgreSQL
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