SQL Exercise: List the employees in ascending order of their salaries
SQL employee Database: Exercise-66 with Solution
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66. From the following table, write a SQL query to find the employees and their salaries. Sort the result-set in ascending order by salaries. Return complete information about the employees.
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Sample table: employees
Sample Solution:
SELECT *
FROM employees
ORDER BY salary ASC;
Sample Output:
emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date | salary | commission | dep_id --------+----------+-----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+-------- 63679 | SANDRINE | CLERK | 69062 | 1990-12-18 | 900.00 | | 2001 69000 | JULIUS | CLERK | 66928 | 1991-12-03 | 1050.00 | | 3001 68736 | ADNRES | CLERK | 67858 | 1997-05-23 | 1200.00 | | 2001 65271 | WADE | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-02-22 | 1350.00 | 600.00 | 3001 66564 | MADDEN | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-09-28 | 1350.00 | 1500.00 | 3001 69324 | MARKER | CLERK | 67832 | 1992-01-23 | 1400.00 | | 1001 68454 | TUCKER | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-09-08 | 1600.00 | 0.00 | 3001 64989 | ADELYN | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-02-20 | 1700.00 | 400.00 | 3001 67832 | CLARE | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-06-09 | 2550.00 | | 1001 66928 | BLAZE | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-05-01 | 2750.00 | | 3001 65646 | JONAS | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-04-02 | 2957.00 | | 2001 69062 | FRANK | ANALYST | 65646 | 1991-12-03 | 3100.00 | | 2001 67858 | SCARLET | ANALYST | 65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 | | 2001 68319 | KAYLING | PRESIDENT | | 1991-11-18 | 6000.00 | | 1001 (14 rows)
Explanation:
The said query in SQL that retrieves all the rows from the 'employees' table and order them in ascending order based on the 'salary' column. This means that the employee with the lowest salary will come first.
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