This page has 0 threads | Add post

Exercises

Finding our exercises useful? Please consider helping us to share more!

Software ==>	SQL (203 exercises)
Topic ==>	Creating tables (7 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	SQL training

Store useful information about continents in a new permanent table

This exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to choose the correct Wise Owl Microsoft training course, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file . Once you've done this:

Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
Execute this script.

This will generate the database that you'll need to use in order to do this exercise (note that the database and script are only to be used for exercises published on this website, and may not be reused or distributed in any form without the prior written permission of Wise Owl).

The aim of this exercise is to create a new summary table listing all the continents. Write a SELECT statement which returns the following summary data for each continent.

Use COUNT, MIN and MAX to get the above output (see below).

To get the number of countries, for example, you could use DISTINCT:

SELECT

ContinentName

,Count(DISTINCT(CO.CountryID)) AS [Countries in Continent]

To turn this into a table, use the INTO command just above the FROM keyword, followed by the name Continent_Summary.

Run your revised query, then look in Object Explorer to check the new table exists:

If the table doesn't appear, try refreshing the tables folder.

Run your query again - it should crash, because the table already exists.

Add a command to delete the Continent_Summary table if it exists at the beginning of your query, so that each time you run the query it will recreate a new copy of the table.

Optionally save this as Continental Counting.sql, and close it down.

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only.

You can find other training resources for the subject of this exercise here:

This page has 0 threads

Add a new post