SQL Exercise: In ASC order, list managers and count their employees

SQL employee Database: Exercise-96 with Solution

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96. From the following table, write a SQL query to create a list of the managers and the number of employees they supervise. Sort the result set in ascending order on manager. Return manager ID and number of employees under them.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT w.manager_id,
       count(*)
FROM employees w,
     employees m
WHERE w.manager_id = m.emp_id
GROUP BY w.manager_id
ORDER BY w.manager_id ASC;

Sample Output:

  manager_id | count
------------+-------
      65646 |     2
      66928 |     5
      67832 |     1
      67858 |     1
      68319 |     3
      69062 |     1
(6 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that retrieves the manager ID along with the number of employees who report to each manager from the 'employees' table.

This creates a self-join, where each row in the 'employees' table is compared with every other row in the same table to identify which employees report to each manager.

The WHERE clause filters the rows where the manager ID of the 'employees' table aliased as "w" matches the employee ID of the 'employees' table aliased as "m", indicating that the employee in the "w" row reports to the manager in the "m" row.

The GROUP BY clause groups the results by the manager ID, so that the count of employees can be calculated for each manager and the ORDER BY clause sorts the results in ascending order by the manager ID.

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