SQL Exercise: Search for all grade 4 and 5 as Analysts and Managers

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6. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees of grade 4 or 5 and who work as ANALYST or MANAGER. Return complete information about the employees.

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 |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+

View the table

Sample table: salary_grade

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

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees e,
     salary_grade s
WHERE e.salary BETWEEN s.min_sal AND s.max_sal
  AND s.grade IN (4,
                  5)
  AND e.emp_id IN
    (SELECT e.emp_id
     FROM employees e
     WHERE e.job_name IN ('MANAGER',
                          'ANALYST'));

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date  | salary  | commission | dep_id | grade | min_sal | max_sal
--------+----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+--------+-------+---------+---------
  66928 | BLAZE    | MANAGER  |      68319 | 1991-05-01 | 2750.00 |            |   3001 |     4 |    2101 |    3100
  67832 | CLARE    | MANAGER  |      68319 | 1991-06-09 | 2550.00 |            |   1001 |     4 |    2101 |    3100
  65646 | JONAS    | MANAGER  |      68319 | 1991-04-02 | 2957.00 |            |   2001 |     4 |    2101 |    3100
  67858 | SCARLET  | ANALYST  |      65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 |            |   2001 |     4 |    2101 |    3100
  69062 | FRANK    | ANALYST  |      65646 | 1991-12-03 | 3100.00 |            |   2001 |     4 |    2101 |    3100
(5 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that retrieves information for employees from the tables 'employees' and 'salary_grade' who are either managers or analysts and whose salaries fall within the ranges specified for salary grades 4 or 5.

The WHERE clause includes records in the result set that meets the following conditions:

The employee's salary must be between the minimum and maximum salary of a salary grade 4 or 5.

The employee's job name must be either "MANAGER" or "ANALYST".

The employee's ID must be included in a subquery that selects employee IDs from the 'employees' table based on the same job name condition.

Go to:

PREV : List all the employees of grade 2 and 3.
NEXT : List the employees whose salary is more than JONAS.

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Sample Database: employees

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