SQL Exercise: List the employees with the same designation as FRANK.

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8. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those employees who work as same designation of FRANK. Return complete information about the employees.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE job_name =
    (SELECT job_name
     FROM employees
     WHERE emp_name = 'FRANK');

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date  | salary  | commission | dep_id
--------+----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+--------
  67858 | SCARLET  | ANALYST  |      65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 |            |   2001
  69062 | FRANK    | ANALYST  |      65646 | 1991-12-03 | 3100.00 |            |   2001
(2 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects all employees who have the same job_name as the employee named 'FRANK' from the 'employees' table.

The WHERE clause in the main query filters the results to only include rows where the job_name is the same as the job_name of the employee named 'FRANK' which is determined by a subquery.

The subquery, which selects the job_name of the employee named 'FRANK' from the 'employees' table.

Practice Online

Structure of employee Database:

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