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

SQL employee Database: Exercise-7 with Solution

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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


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SQL exercises on employee Database: List the employees with Hire date in the format like February 22, 1991

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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