SQL Exercise: List the employees whose salary is more than JONAS

SQL subqueries on employee Database: Exercise-7 with Solution

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7. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees whose salary is more than the salary of JONAS. Return complete information about the employees.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE salary >
    (SELECT salary
     FROM employees
     WHERE emp_name = 'JONAS');

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | job_name  | manager_id | hire_date  | salary  | commission | dep_id
--------+----------+-----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+--------
  68319 | KAYLING  | PRESIDENT |            | 1991-11-18 | 6000.00 |            |   1001
  67858 | SCARLET  | ANALYST   |      65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 |            |   2001
  69062 | FRANK    | ANALYST   |      65646 | 1991-12-03 | 3100.00 |            |   2001
(3 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects all employees whose salary is greater than that of the employee named 'JONAS' from the 'employees' table.

The WHERE clause filters the results to only include rows where the salary is greater than the salary of the employee named 'JONAS' which is determined by a subquery.

The subquery, which selects the salary of the employee named 'JONAS' from the 'employees' table.

Practice Online

Structure of employee Database:

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