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Software ==>	SQL (203 exercises)
Topic ==>	Looping (5 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	SQL training

Create a loop to perform a count for each year of a given range

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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 query to show the number of events which occurred in each year that you have been alive, using a loop to run a separate select statement for each year:

The first few results for a Wise Owl born in 1981.

See below for details on how to do this.

The main parts of a loop are the starting point, counter, counter increment and end point - once you have these the rest of the loop is just the tasty filling:

-- create the counter, normally a variable

DECLARE @Counter INT =

-- create an end point to stop the loop

DECLARE @EndValue INT =

-- start the loop and set an end point

WHILE @Counter <=>

BEGIN

--Everything else

SET @Counter = @Counter + 1 --Increase the counter

END

Set the initial value of the counter to your year of birth, and loop until this reaches the current year (use year(GetDate())). You can then use the counter within your loop to filter a select statement counting the number of events.

Optionally save this as Going Loopy.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.

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