SQL Exercises: Who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature?

SQL Basic Select Statement: Exercise-13 with Solution.

From the following table, write a SQL query to find the Nobel Prize winner in ‘Literature’ for 1971. Return winner.

Sample table: nobel_win

Sample Solution:

SELECT winner
  FROM nobel_win
 WHERE year = 1971
   AND subject = 'Literature';

Output of the Query:

winner
Pablo Neruda

Code Explanation:

The above SQL query that selects the "winner" column from the 'nobel_win' table where the value of "year" column is 1971 and the value of "subject" column is 'Literature'. The WHERE clause is used to filter the rows and only return the rows that match the conditions specified in the WHERE clause. The "AND" operator is used to combine the two conditions.

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