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Software ==>	SQL (203 exercises)
Topic ==>	Table-valued functions (8 exercises)
Level ==>	Relatively easy
Subject ==>	SQL training

List episodes made by any given doctor by using a table function in SQL

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

First (if you haven't already done so) run the script shown above to generate the Doctor Who training database.

Create a table-valued function to list out all of the episode details for a given doctor. Here's the syntax, as a reminder:

CREATE FUNCTION FunctionName(

@Parameter1 DataType1,

...,

@ParameterN DataTypeN

)

RETURNS TABLE

-- return data from a single SELECT statement

RETURN

SELECT

ColumnList

FROM

TableName

You should be able to run this query to show the episodes in which anyone called Chris appeared:

-- show the Christopher Eccleston episodes

SELECT * FROM dbo.fnEpisodesByDoctor('Chris')

Here's what this should show:

The first few of the 13 episodes in which Christopher Eccleston appeared.

Create a query based on this (you'll need to give the results returned by the function a table alias, and create a join from this to the tblAuthor table) to show the details (including author) for episodes made by doctors called Chris: