1.
Read the notes about this table. Observe the result of running this SQL command to show the name, continent and population of all countries.
SELECT name, continent, population FROM world
2.
How to use WHERE to filter records. Show the name for the countries that have a population of at least 200 million. 200 million is 200000000, there are eight zeros.
SELECT name FROM world
WHERE population > 200000000
3.
Give the name
and the per capita GDP for those countries with a population
of at least 200 million.
select name,gdp/population as capita from world
where population >= 200000000
4.
Show the name
and population
in millions for the countries of the continent
'South America'. Divide the population by 1000000 to get population in millions.
select name,population/1000000 from world
where continent = 'South America'
5.
Show the name
and population
for France, Germany, Italy
select name,population from world
where name in ('France','Germany','Italy')
6.
Show the countries which have a name
that includes the word 'United'
select name from world where name like '%United%'
7.
Two ways to be big: A country is big if it has an area of more than 3 million sq km or it has a population of more than 250 million.
Show the countries that are big by area or big by population. Show name, population and area
select name,population,area from world
where area >= 3000000 or population >= 250000000
8.
Exclusive OR (XOR). Show the countries that are big by area or big by population but not both. Show name, population and area.
where (area>3000000 or population > 250000000)
AND name Not in ('United States','India','China')
9.
Show the name
and population
in millions and the GDP in billions for the countries of the continent
'South America'. Use the ROUND function to show the values to two decimal places.
select name,round(population/1000000,2),round(GDP/1000000000,2) from world
where continent='South America'
10.
Show the name
and per-capita GDP for those countries with a GDP of at least one trillion (1000000000000; that is 12 zeros). Round this value to the nearest 1000.
Show per-capita GDP for the trillion dollar countries to the nearest $1000.
select name,round(gdp/population,-3) as capita from world where GDP >= 1000000000000
11.
Greece has capital Athens.
Each of the strings 'Greece', and 'Athens' has 6 characters.
Show the name and capital where the name and the capital have the same number of characters.
SELECT name,capital
FROM world
WHERE LENGTH(name)=LENGTH(capital)
12.
The capital of Sweden is Stockholm. Both words start with the letter 'S'.
<>
as the NOT EQUALS operator.13.
Equatorial Guinea and Dominican Republic have all of the vowels (a e i o u) in the name. They don't count because they have more than one word in the name.
Find the country that has all the vowels and no spaces in its name.
name NOT LIKE '%a%'
to exclude characters from your results.SELECT name FROM world
WHERE name LIKE '%a%' AND
name LIKE '%e%' AND
name LIKE '%i%' AND
name LIKE '%o%' AND
name LIKE '%u%' AND
name NOT LIKE '% %'