SQL Exercise: Display all the unique job in descending order
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68. From the following table, write a SQL query to sort the unique jobs in descending order. Return job name.
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Sample table: employees
Sample Solution:
SELECT DISTINCT job_name
FROM employees
ORDER BY job_name DESC;
Sample Output:
job_name ----------- SALESMAN PRESIDENT MANAGER CLERK ANALYST (5 rows)
Explanation:
The given query in SQL that retrieves all unique values of the "job_name" column from the 'employees' table and order them in descending order.
The query returns all unique job names that exist in the 'employees' table, with each job name appearing only once in the result set. The job names will be ordered in descending order.
The "DISTINCT" keyword eliminates any duplicate values in the result set.
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SQL: Tips of the Day
Grouped LIMIT in PostgreSQL: Show the first N rows for each group?
db=# SELECT * FROM xxx; id | section_id | name ----+------------+------ 1 | 1 | A 2 | 1 | B 3 | 1 | C 4 | 1 | D 5 | 2 | E 6 | 2 | F 7 | 3 | G 8 | 2 | H (8 rows)
I need the first 2 rows (ordered by name) for each section_id, i.e. a result similar to:
id | section_id | name ----+------------+------ 1 | 1 | A 2 | 1 | B 5 | 2 | E 6 | 2 | F 7 | 3 | G (5 rows)
PostgreSQL v9.3 you can do a lateral join
select distinct t_outer.section_id, t_top.id, t_top.name from t t_outer join lateral ( select * from t t_inner where t_inner.section_id = t_outer.section_id order by t_inner.name limit 2 ) t_top on true order by t_outer.section_id;
Database: PostgreSQL
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