SQL Exercise: Employee names and salaries are increased by 15% in $
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4. From the following table, write a SQL query to list the employees’ name, increased their salary by 15%, and expressed as number of Dollars.
Sample table: employees
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Sample Solution:
SELECT emp_name,
to_char(1.15*salary,'$99,999') AS "Salary"
FROM employees;
Sample Output:
emp_name | Salary ----------+---------- KAYLING | $ 6,900 BLAZE | $ 3,163 CLARE | $ 2,933 JONAS | $ 3,401 SCARLET | $ 3,565 FRANK | $ 3,565 SANDRINE | $ 1,035 ADELYN | $ 1,955 WADE | $ 1,553 MADDEN | $ 1,553 TUCKER | $ 1,840 ADNRES | $ 1,380 JULIUS | $ 1,208 MARKER | $ 1,610 (14 rows)
Explanation:
The provided query in SQL that retrieves names of all the employees, and their corresponding salaries, adjusted by a 15% increase aliased as "Salary". The AS keyword is used to assign the name "Salary" to the newly created column.
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Sample Database: employee
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