SQL Exercise: Employees according to the department in ASC order

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84. From the following table, write a SQL query to find the employees according to the department in ascending order. Return name, job name, department, salary, and grade.

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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Sample table: department

 departmentid |       name       | head
--------------+------------------+------
            1 | General Medicine |    4
            2 | Surgery          |    7
            3 | Psychiatry       |    9

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Sample table: salary_grade

 grade | min_sal | max_sal
-------+---------+---------
     1 |     800 |    1300
     2 |    1301 |    1500
     3 |    1501 |    2100
     4 |    2101 |    3100
     5 |    3101 |    9999

Pictorial Presentation:

Sample Solution:

SELECT e.emp_name,
       e.job_name,
       d.dep_name,
       e.salary,
       s.grade
FROM employees e,
     department d,
     salary_grade s
WHERE e.dep_id = d.dep_id
  AND e.salary BETWEEN s.min_sal AND s.max_sal
ORDER BY e.dep_id ;

Sample Output:

 emp_name | job_name  | dep_name  | salary  | grade
----------+-----------+-----------+---------+-------
 KAYLING  | PRESIDENT | FINANCE   | 6000.00 |     5
 CLARE    | MANAGER   | FINANCE   | 2550.00 |     4
 MARKER   | CLERK     | FINANCE   | 1400.00 |     2
 SANDRINE | CLERK     | AUDIT     |  900.00 |     1
 SCARLET  | ANALYST   | AUDIT     | 3100.00 |     4
 ADNRES   | CLERK     | AUDIT     | 1200.00 |     1
 FRANK    | ANALYST   | AUDIT     | 3100.00 |     4
 JONAS    | MANAGER   | AUDIT     | 2957.00 |     4
 BLAZE    | MANAGER   | MARKETING | 2750.00 |     4
 JULIUS   | CLERK     | MARKETING | 1050.00 |     1
 ADELYN   | SALESMAN  | MARKETING | 1700.00 |     3
 WADE     | SALESMAN  | MARKETING | 1350.00 |     2
 MADDEN   | SALESMAN  | MARKETING | 1350.00 |     2
 TUCKER   | SALESMAN  | MARKETING | 1600.00 |     3
(14 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that retrieves the employee name, job name, department name, salary, and salary grade for each employee who falls within a certain salary range and belongs to a department, and orders the results by department ID.

A join happens by matching the 'employees' and 'department' tables based on the department ID column and the 'employees' and 'salary_grade' tables matches the salary falls within the salary range of the salary grade. This orders the results by the department ID.

Go to:

PREV : List the employees along with grades in ascending order.
NEXT : Sort on highest salary of employees except CLERK.

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Sample Database: employees

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