SQL Exercise: Display customer name, city and grade by highest grade

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Customers Sorted by Third Field

From the following table, write a SQL query to find all the customers. Sort the result-set in descending order on 3rd field. Return customer name, city and grade.

Sample table: customer

 customer_id |   cust_name    |    city    | grade | salesman_id 
-------------+----------------+------------+-------+-------------
        3002 | Nick Rimando   | New York   |   100 |        5001
        3007 | Brad Davis     | New York   |   200 |        5001
        3005 | Graham Zusi    | California |   200 |        5002
        3008 | Julian Green   | London     |   300 |        5002
        3004 | Fabian Johnson | Paris      |   300 |        5006
        3009 | Geoff Cameron  | Berlin     |   100 |        5003
        3003 | Jozy Altidor   | Moscow     |   200 |        5007
        3001 | Brad Guzan     | London     |       |        5005

Sample Solution:

-- This query selects specific columns ('cust_name', 'city', 'grade') from the 'customer' table.
-- It orders the result set by the third column ('grade') in descending order using the column index.
SELECT cust_name, city, grade
-- Specifies the table from which to retrieve the data (in this case, 'customer').
FROM customer
-- Orders the result set by the third column ('grade') in descending order using the column index (3).
ORDER BY 3 DESC;

Output of the Query:

cust_name	city		grade
Brad Guzan	London	
Fabian Johnson	Paris		300
Julian Green	London		300
Brad Davis	New York	200
Jozy Altidor	Moscow		200
Graham Zusi	California	200
Nick Rimando	New York	100
Geoff Cameron	Berlin		100

Code Explanation:

The said query in SQL that retrieves the customer name, city, and grade from the 'customer' table and orders the result set by the "grade" column in descending order. The result will show the customer name, city, and grade with the highest grades appearing first in the result set.

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For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

• Write a SQL query to retrieve cust_name, city, and grade, sorting by grade in descending order then by cust_name ascending.
• Write a SQL query to list customers with details sorted by grade descending, including only records with non-null grade.
• Write a SQL query to select customer name, city, and grade, sorting by the length of grade (when cast to a string) in descending order.
• Write a SQL query to output customer details sorted primarily by grade descending and secondarily by city descending.
• Write a SQL query to display cust_name, city, and grade sorted by grade in descending order, filtering out records where city has fewer than five characters.

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