SQL Exercises: Determine who earns more than Mr. Ozer

SQL SUBQUERY: Exercise-29 with Solution

From the following table, write a SQL query to find all those employees who earn more than an employee whose last name is 'Ozer'. Sort the result in ascending order by last name. Return first name, last name and salary.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT first_name, last_name, salary 
FROM employees 
WHERE salary > 
(SELECT salary 
FROM employees 
WHERE last_name='Ozer') 
ORDER BY  last_name;

Sample Output:

first_name	last_name	salary
Lex		De Haan		17000.00
Alberto		Errazuriz	12000.00
Nancy		Greenberg	12000.00
Michael		Hartstein	13000.00
Shelley		Higgins		12000.00
Steven		King		24000.00
Neena		Kochhar		17000.00
Karen		Partners	13500.00
John		Russell		14000.00

Code Explanation:

The said query in SQL that retrieve the first name, last name, and salary of employees from the 'employees' table who have a salary higher than the salary of a specified employee whose last name "Ozer". The result is sorted in ascending order by last name.
The salary of the employee with the last name "Ozer" is retrieved using a subquery that selects the salary from the "employees" table where the last name is "Ozer".

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Alternative Statements:

Subquery with JOIN:

SELECT e.first_name, e.last_name, e.salary 
FROM employees e
JOIN (
    SELECT salary 
    FROM employees 
    WHERE last_name='Ozer'
) o ON e.salary > o.salary
ORDER BY e.last_name;

Using a JOIN:

SELECT e.first_name, e.last_name, e.salary 
FROM employees e
JOIN employees o ON e.salary > o.salary AND o.last_name = 'Ozer'
ORDER BY e.last_name;

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