SQL Exercise: The date when he left his last job and his employee ID

SQL SORTING and FILTERING on HR Database: Exercise-32 with Solution

32. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees who have completed their previous jobs. Return employee ID, end_date.

+-------------+------------+------------+------------+---------------+
| EMPLOYEE_ID | START_DATE | END_DATE   | JOB_ID     | DEPARTMENT_ID |
+-------------+------------+------------+------------+---------------+
|         102 | 2001-01-13 | 2006-07-24 | IT_PROG    |            60 |
|         101 | 1997-09-21 | 2001-10-27 | AC_ACCOUNT |           110 |
|         101 | 2001-10-28 | 2005-03-15 | AC_MGR     |           110 |
|         201 | 2004-02-17 | 2007-12-19 | MK_REP     |            20 |
|         114 | 2006-03-24 | 2007-12-31 | ST_CLERK   |            50 |
|         122 | 2007-01-01 | 2007-12-31 | ST_CLERK   |            50 |
|         200 | 1995-09-17 | 2001-06-17 | AD_ASST    |            90 |
|         176 | 2006-03-24 | 2006-12-31 | SA_REP     |            80 |
|         176 | 2007-01-01 | 2007-12-31 | SA_MAN     |            80 |
|         200 | 2002-07-01 | 2006-12-31 | AC_ACCOUNT |            90 |
+-------------+------------+------------+------------+---------------+

Sample Solution:

-- Selecting 'employee_id' and the maximum 'end_date'
SELECT employee_id, MAX(end_date)
-- Specifying the table to retrieve data from ('job_history')
FROM job_history
-- Filtering the results to include only those 'employee_id' values that appear more than once
WHERE employee_id IN (
    -- Subquery: Selecting 'employee_id' from 'job_history', grouping by 'employee_id', and filtering the count to be greater than 1
    SELECT employee_id
    FROM job_history
    GROUP BY 1
    HAVING COUNT(employee_id) > 1
)
-- Grouping the results by 'employee_id'
GROUP BY 1;

Sample Output:

 employee_id |    max
-------------+------------
         101 | 2005-03-15
         200 | 2006-12-31
         176 | 2007-12-31
(7 rows)

Code Explanation:

The said query in SQL that retrieves the employee ID and the latest end date for each employee with multiple job history entries. The query first selects the employee IDs that have more than one entry in the 'job_history' table using a subquery and the "HAVING COUNT" clause. Then, it retrieves the employee IDs and their corresponding maximum end dates from the 'job_history' table, grouping the results by the employee IDs.

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