SQL Exercise: Without the spaces, count each employee name characters
SQL employee Database: Exercise-8 with Solution
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8. From the following table, write a SQL query to count the number of characters except the spaces for each employee name. Return employee name length.
Sample table: employees
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Sample Solution:
SELECT length(trim(emp_name))
FROM employees;
Sample Output:
length -------- 7 5 5 5 7 5 8 6 4 6 6 6 6 6 (14 rows)
Explanation:
The given query in SQL that selects the length of the trimmed employee names for all rows in the 'employees' table.
In the "trim" function, leading or trailing spaces are removed from the employee name, and the "length" function returns the length.
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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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