SQL Exercise: List the employees who joined before 1991
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12. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees who joined before 1991. Return complete information about the employees.
Sample table: employees
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Sample Solution:
SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE hire_date<('1991-1-1');
Sample Output:
emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date | salary | commission | dep_id --------+----------+----------+------------+------------+--------+------------+-------- 63679 | SANDRINE | CLERK | 69062 | 1990-12-18 | 900.00 | | 2001 (1 row)
Explanation:
The said query in SQL that selects all columns from the 'employees' table where the hire_date is before January 1, 1991.
The "WHERE" clause filters the results for all employees whose hire date is earlier than January 1, 1991.
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