SQL Exercise: Sort the employees by salary less than 1000

SQL employee Database: Exercise-73 with Solution

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73. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees who earn less than 1000. Sort the result-set in ascending order by salary. Return complete information about the employees.

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Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE salary < 1000
ORDER BY salary;

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
(1 row)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that returns all the rows and columns from the 'employees' table where the "salary" column is less than 1000, and sorts the result set in ascending order on "salary" column.

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