SQL Exercise: Display all the information of the employees
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1. From the following table return complete information about the employees.
Sample table: employees
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Sample Solution:
SELECT * FROM employees;
Sample Output:
emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date | salary | commission | dep_id --------+----------+-----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+-------- 68319 | KAYLING | PRESIDENT | | 1991-11-18 | 6000.00 | | 1001 66928 | BLAZE | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-05-01 | 2750.00 | | 3001 67832 | CLARE | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-06-09 | 2550.00 | | 1001 65646 | JONAS | MANAGER | 68319 | 1991-04-02 | 2957.00 | | 2001 67858 | SCARLET | ANALYST | 65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 | | 2001 69062 | FRANK | ANALYST | 65646 | 1991-12-03 | 3100.00 | | 2001 63679 | SANDRINE | CLERK | 69062 | 1990-12-18 | 900.00 | | 2001 64989 | ADELYN | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-02-20 | 1700.00 | 400.00 | 3001 65271 | WADE | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-02-22 | 1350.00 | 600.00 | 3001 66564 | MADDEN | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-09-28 | 1350.00 | 1500.00 | 3001 68454 | TUCKER | SALESMAN | 66928 | 1991-09-08 | 1600.00 | 0.00 | 3001 68736 | ADNRES | CLERK | 67858 | 1997-05-23 | 1200.00 | | 2001 69000 | JULIUS | CLERK | 66928 | 1991-12-03 | 1050.00 | | 3001 69324 | MARKER | CLERK | 67832 | 1992-01-23 | 1400.00 | | 1001 (14 rows)
Explanation:
The said query in SQL that retrieves all the data from the 'employees' table. The asterisk (*) represents a wildcard character that include all the columns of the table in the result set.
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