SQL Exercise: Find the total salary given to the MANAGER

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26. From the following table, write a SQL query to compute the total salary of the designation MANAGER. Return total salary.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT SUM (salary)
FROM employees
WHERE job_name = 'MANAGER';

Sample Output:

   sum
---------
 8257.00
(1 row)

Explanation:

The given query in SQL that returns the total salary of all the employees from the employees table who have a job name of 'MANAGER'.

The aggregate function "SUM" calculates the total salary of all the matching employees.

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