SQL Exercise: Employees with Hire date in format February 22, 1991

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7. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees with hire date in the format like February 22, 1991. Return employee ID, employee name, salary, hire date.

Sample table: employees

+-------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+
| EMPLOYEE_ID | FIRST_NAME  | LAST_NAME   | EMAIL    | PHONE_NUMBER       | HIRE_DATE  | JOB_ID     | SALARY   | COMMISSION_PCT | MANAGER_ID | DEPARTMENT_ID |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+
|         100 | Steven      | King        | SKING    | 515.123.4567       | 2003-06-17 | AD_PRES    | 24000.00 |           0.00 |          0 |            90 |
|         101 | Neena       | Kochhar     | NKOCHHAR | 515.123.4568       | 2005-09-21 | AD_VP      | 17000.00 |           0.00 |        100 |            90 |
|         102 | Lex         | De Haan     | LDEHAAN  | 515.123.4569       | 2001-01-13 | AD_VP      | 17000.00 |           0.00 |        100 |            90 |
|         103 | Alexander   | Hunold      | AHUNOLD  | 590.423.4567       | 2006-01-03 | IT_PROG    |  9000.00 |           0.00 |        102 |            60 |
|         104 | Bruce       | Ernst       | BERNST   | 590.423.4568       | 2007-05-21 | IT_PROG    |  6000.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         105 | David       | Austin      | DAUSTIN  | 590.423.4569       | 2005-06-25 | IT_PROG    |  4800.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         106 | Valli       | Pataballa   | VPATABAL | 590.423.4560       | 2006-02-05 | IT_PROG    |  4800.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         107 | Diana       | Lorentz     | DLORENTZ | 590.423.5567       | 2007-02-07 | IT_PROG    |  4200.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
|         108 | Nancy       | Greenberg   | NGREENBE | 515.124.4569       | 2002-08-17 | FI_MGR     | 12008.00 |           0.00 |        101 |           100 |
|         109 | Daniel      | Faviet      | DFAVIET  | 515.124.4169       | 2002-08-16 | FI_ACCOUNT |  9000.00 |           0.00 |        108 |           100 |
.........
|         206 | William     | Gietz       | WGIETZ   | 515.123.8181       | 2002-06-07 | AC_ACCOUNT |  8300.00 |           0.00 |        205 |           110 |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+

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Pictorial Presentation:

Sample Solution:

SELECT emp_id,
       emp_name,
       salary,
       to_char(hire_date,'MONTH DD,YYYY')
FROM employees;

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | salary  |      to_char
--------+----------+---------+-------------------
  68319 | KAYLING  | 6000.00 | NOVEMBER  18,1991
  66928 | BLAZE    | 2750.00 | MAY       01,1991
  67832 | CLARE    | 2550.00 | JUNE      09,1991
  65646 | JONAS    | 2957.00 | APRIL     02,1991
  67858 | SCARLET  | 3100.00 | APRIL     19,1997
  69062 | FRANK    | 3100.00 | DECEMBER  03,1991
  63679 | SANDRINE |  900.00 | DECEMBER  18,1990
  64989 | ADELYN   | 1700.00 | FEBRUARY  20,1991
  65271 | WADE     | 1350.00 | FEBRUARY  22,1991
  66564 | MADDEN   | 1350.00 | SEPTEMBER 28,1991
  68454 | TUCKER   | 1600.00 | SEPTEMBER 08,1991
  68736 | ADNRES   | 1200.00 | MAY       23,1997
  69000 | JULIUS   | 1050.00 | DECEMBER  03,1991
  69324 | MARKER   | 1400.00 | JANUARY   23,1992
(14 rows)

Explanation:

The provided query in SQL that retrieves the employee ID, employee name, salary, and hire date of all employees from the 'employees' table. The hire date will be formatted as a string in the "MONTH DD,YYYY" format. The "to_char" function is used to format the "hire_date" column as a string in the format "MONTH DD,YYYY".

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