SQL exercises on movie Database: Find the list of those movies with year which include the words Boogie Nights

SQL movie Database: Basic Exercise-9 with Solution

9. From the following table, write a SQL query to find the movie titles that contain the word 'Boogie Nights'. Sort the result-set in ascending order by movie year. Return movie ID, movie title and movie release year.

 mov_id |                     mov_title                      | mov_year | mov_time |    mov_lang     | mov_dt_rel | mov_rel_country
--------+----------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+-----------------+------------+-----------------
    901 | Vertigo                                            |     1958 |      128 | English         | 1958-08-24 | UK
    902 | The Innocents                                      |     1961 |      100 | English         | 1962-02-19 | SW
    903 | Lawrence of Arabia                                 |     1962 |      216 | English         | 1962-12-11 | UK
    904 | The Deer Hunter                                    |     1978 |      183 | English         | 1979-03-08 | UK
    905 | Amadeus                                            |     1984 |      160 | English         | 1985-01-07 | UK
    906 | Blade Runner                                       |     1982 |      117 | English         | 1982-09-09 | UK
    907 | Eyes Wide Shut                                     |     1999 |      159 | English         |            | UK
    908 | The Usual Suspects                                 |     1995 |      106 | English         | 1995-08-25 | UK
    909 | Chinatown                                          |     1974 |      130 | English         | 1974-08-09 | UK
    910 | Boogie Nights                                      |     1997 |      155 | English         | 1998-02-16 | UK
    911 | Annie Hall                                         |     1977 |       93 | English         | 1977-04-20 | USA
    912 | Princess Mononoke                                  |     1997 |      134 | Japanese        | 2001-10-19 | UK
    913 | The Shawshank Redemption                           |     1994 |      142 | English         | 1995-02-17 | UK
    914 | American Beauty                                    |     1999 |      122 | English         |            | UK
    915 | Titanic                                            |     1997 |      194 | English         | 1998-01-23 | UK
    916 | Good Will Hunting                                  |     1997 |      126 | English         | 1998-06-03 | UK
    917 | Deliverance                                        |     1972 |      109 | English         | 1982-10-05 | UK
    918 | Trainspotting                                      |     1996 |       94 | English         | 1996-02-23 | UK
    919 | The Prestige                                       |     2006 |      130 | English         | 2006-11-10 | UK
    920 | Donnie Darko                                       |     2001 |      113 | English         |            | UK
    921 | Slumdog Millionaire                                |     2008 |      120 | English         | 2009-01-09 | UK
    922 | Aliens                                             |     1986 |      137 | English         | 1986-08-29 | UK
    923 | Beyond the Sea                                     |     2004 |      118 | English         | 2004-11-26 | UK
    924 | Avatar                                             |     2009 |      162 | English         | 2009-12-17 | UK
    926 | Seven Samurai                                      |     1954 |      207 | Japanese        | 1954-04-26 | JP
    927 | Spirited Away                                      |     2001 |      125 | Japanese        | 2003-09-12 | UK
    928 | Back to the Future                                 |     1985 |      116 | English         | 1985-12-04 | UK
    925 | Braveheart                                         |     1995 |      178 | English         | 1995-09-08 | UK

Sample Solution:

-- Selecting 'mov_id', 'mov_title', and 'mov_year' from the 'movie' table
-- Filtering results where 'mov_title' contains the substring 'Boogie Nights'
-- Ordering the results by 'mov_year' in ascending order
SELECT mov_id, mov_title, mov_year
FROM movie
WHERE mov_title LIKE '%Boogie%Nights%'
ORDER BY mov_year ASC;

Sample Output:

 mov_id |                     mov_title                      | mov_year
--------+----------------------------------------------------+----------
    910 | Boogie Nights                                      |     1997
(1 row)

Code Explanation:

The above query in SQL which selects the "mov_id", "mov_title", and "mov_year" columns from the 'movie' table for movies whose title contains the phrase "Boogie Nights" and sort the result set in ascending order on release year.
The "WHERE" clause uses the "LIKE" operator to filter the results to only include rows where "mov_title" contains the phrase "Boogie Nights" which can appear anywhere within the "mov_title" value, and can be preceded or followed by any characters.
The "ORDER BY" clause sorts the results by "mov_year" in ascending order, so that the movies with the earliest release year appear first.

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