MySQL exercises

Dr. Paolo Coletti Free University of Bolzano Bozen

04 April 2016

Use database northwind2003

Build a query and, if possible, save it as a view, which

1. writes the customers list (only customers company name is displayed) with the
number of orders handled by that employee with last name Davolio in April of all
the years; result has 13 rows
2. displays the list of products whose UnitsInStock is smaller than ReorderLevel, in
category alphabetical order and, within the same category, by product alphabetical
order. Only category and products name are displayed. Result has 18 rows
3. writes the list of orders with total value larger than 500. Total value is the sum of
UnitPrice by Quantity by (1-Discount); result has 594 rows (or 614 if you use
UnitPrice in table Products)
4. displays the list of orders with the number of weeks passed between OrderDate
and ShippedDate; result has 830 rows
5. displays the list of Suppliers and their orders ID which involve a Seafood products
and are handled by Davolio (fields displayed: CompanyName and OrderID). Do
not display the same row twice; result has 47 rows (and not 59)
6. calculates for each supplier the total money generated by its products (ignore the
discount) in year 1995 (fields displayed: CompanyName, total paid amount); result
has 29 rows
7. displays the list of customers together with all their Seafood products ordered
during year 1995, sorted by companys name (fields displayed: CompanyName,
Product). Each couple companyName-ProductName should appear only once; result
has 12 rows (not 66, nor 161)

8. calculates for each customer the total money paid (ignore the discount) for each
category of products ordered in year 1995 (fields displayed: CompanyName,
CategoryName, total paid amount). Result has 444 rows (not 8)

Use database northwind2003_free

11.Add a check constraint which checks that BirthDate be at least 18 years before
today and before HireDate.
12.Add a check constraint which checks that UnitPrice be null or not negative.
13.Build, through an appropriate table and relation, a mandatory field TitleOfCourtesy
with values Mr, Miss, Mrs.

Use database studentsandexams

Build a query and, if possible, save it as a view, which

21.shows in the first column the year and in the second column how many exams with
at least 23 have been passed in that year by all the students in the database;
result has 11 rows
22.calculates for every student (students lastname and number) the average of
his/her grades received after 1/1/2009; result has 86 rows, Alfarei has average
grade 26.5
23.calculates for each student (students lastname and weighted average) his
weighted average grade using as weights the exams credits; this query is
challenging, if you want you can create a view and use it with a second query, even
though it can be solved with a single query; result has 97 rows, student 803 has
average 23,9706
24.displays the courses held in first semester with their professor (course name and
professors lastname). Result has 13 rows

Use database studentsandexams_free

31.Build, through an appropriate table and relation, a mandatory field Language with
values English, German, Italian.

Use database sakila

Build a query, and if possible save it as a view, which

41.displays all documentary films, with their language; result has 68 rows
42.displays, for all documentary films that we have in inventory, the rental dates and
the customer who rented it; result has 1050 rows
43.displays the film categories names with how many film copies per category do we
have in our inventory; result has 16 rows, action movies are 312
44.displays for each customer the sum of money that he has paid; result has 599 rows
45.displays the list of stores with the name and surname of the responsible person;
result has 2 rows
46.displays the list of not correct customers email addresses (not in the
characters@characters.extension format); result has 2 rows
47.counts how many movies have been rented per employee; result has 5 rows, 3
employees have less than 4 movies rented
48.calculates the average payment per customer; result has 599 rows
49.calculates the average payment and the sum of payments per employee; result
has 5 rows, 3 employees have very low sums
50.displays the movie titles in order of number of rentals, from the top rented to the
less rented (use the records in films and not in inventory); result has 958 rows and
starts with Bucket Brotherhood
51.counts the number of film copies that we have per actor, ordered in actors
surname alphabetical order; result has 200 rows and starts with Arkoyd Christian
with 155 copies;
52.calculates the average film length per category; result has 16 rows

Use database sakila_free

61.Build a query and save it as a view which displays all rentals, with surname of the
customer and of the employee who gave the film and the store to which employee
belongs, assigning to each field a nickname. Then build another query which takes
data from this view (so not from the original tables, thus use the nicknames) and,
joining it with table employees again, display also the surname of the responsible
of the store, everything sorted by employees surname (not responsible). Result
has 16044 rows and starts with rentals from Bach employee.