SQL exercises on movie Database: Find those lowest duration movies along with the year, director's name, actor's name and his/her role in that production
SQL movie Database: Join Exercise-11 with Solution
11. From the following table, write a SQL query to find movies with the shortest duration. Return movie title, movie year, director first name, last name, actor first name, last name and role.
Sample table: movie
mov_id | mov_title | mov_year | mov_time | mov_lang | mov_dt_rel | mov_rel_country
--------+----------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+-----------------+------------+-----------------
901 | Vertigo | 1958 | 128 | English | 1958-08-24 | UK
902 | The Innocents | 1961 | 100 | English | 1962-02-19 | SW
903 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | 216 | English | 1962-12-11 | UK
904 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | 183 | English | 1979-03-08 | UK
905 | Amadeus | 1984 | 160 | English | 1985-01-07 | UK
906 | Blade Runner | 1982 | 117 | English | 1982-09-09 | UK
907 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | 159 | English | | UK
908 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | 106 | English | 1995-08-25 | UK
909 | Chinatown | 1974 | 130 | English | 1974-08-09 | UK
910 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | 155 | English | 1998-02-16 | UK
911 | Annie Hall | 1977 | 93 | English | 1977-04-20 | USA
912 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | 134 | Japanese | 2001-10-19 | UK
913 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | 142 | English | 1995-02-17 | UK
914 | American Beauty | 1999 | 122 | English | | UK
915 | Titanic | 1997 | 194 | English | 1998-01-23 | UK
916 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | 126 | English | 1998-06-03 | UK
917 | Deliverance | 1972 | 109 | English | 1982-10-05 | UK
918 | Trainspotting | 1996 | 94 | English | 1996-02-23 | UK
919 | The Prestige | 2006 | 130 | English | 2006-11-10 | UK
920 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | 113 | English | | UK
921 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | 120 | English | 2009-01-09 | UK
922 | Aliens | 1986 | 137 | English | 1986-08-29 | UK
923 | Beyond the Sea | 2004 | 118 | English | 2004-11-26 | UK
924 | Avatar | 2009 | 162 | English | 2009-12-17 | UK
926 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | 207 | Japanese | 1954-04-26 | JP
927 | Spirited Away | 2001 | 125 | Japanese | 2003-09-12 | UK
928 | Back to the Future | 1985 | 116 | English | 1985-12-04 | UK
925 | Braveheart | 1995 | 178 | English | 1995-09-08 | UK
Sample table: actor
act_id | act_fname | act_lname | act_gender
--------+----------------------+----------------------+------------
101 | James | Stewart | M
102 | Deborah | Kerr | F
103 | Peter | OToole | M
104 | Robert | De Niro | M
105 | F. Murray | Abraham | M
106 | Harrison | Ford | M
107 | Nicole | Kidman | F
108 | Stephen | Baldwin | M
109 | Jack | Nicholson | M
110 | Mark | Wahlberg | M
111 | Woody | Allen | M
112 | Claire | Danes | F
113 | Tim | Robbins | M
114 | Kevin | Spacey | M
115 | Kate | Winslet | F
116 | Robin | Williams | M
117 | Jon | Voight | M
118 | Ewan | McGregor | M
119 | Christian | Bale | M
120 | Maggie | Gyllenhaal | F
121 | Dev | Patel | M
122 | Sigourney | Weaver | F
123 | David | Aston | M
124 | Ali | Astin | F
Sample table: director
dir_id | dir_fname | dir_lname
--------+----------------------+----------------------
201 | Alfred | Hitchcock
202 | Jack | Clayton
203 | David | Lean
204 | Michael | Cimino
205 | Milos | Forman
206 | Ridley | Scott
207 | Stanley | Kubrick
208 | Bryan | Singer
209 | Roman | Polanski
210 | Paul | Thomas Anderson
211 | Woody | Allen
212 | Hayao | Miyazaki
213 | Frank | Darabont
214 | Sam | Mendes
215 | James | Cameron
216 | Gus | Van Sant
217 | John | Boorman
218 | Danny | Boyle
219 | Christopher | Nolan
220 | Richard | Kelly
221 | Kevin | Spacey
222 | Andrei | Tarkovsky
223 | Peter | Jackson
Sample table: movie_direction
dir_id | mov_id
--------+--------
201 | 901
202 | 902
203 | 903
204 | 904
205 | 905
206 | 906
207 | 907
208 | 908
209 | 909
210 | 910
211 | 911
212 | 912
213 | 913
214 | 914
215 | 915
216 | 916
217 | 917
218 | 918
219 | 919
220 | 920
218 | 921
215 | 922
221 | 923
Sample table: movie_cast
act_id | mov_id | role
--------+--------+--------------------------------
101 | 901 | John Scottie Ferguson
102 | 902 | Miss Giddens
103 | 903 | T.E. Lawrence
104 | 904 | Michael
105 | 905 | Antonio Salieri
106 | 906 | Rick Deckard
107 | 907 | Alice Harford
108 | 908 | McManus
110 | 910 | Eddie Adams
111 | 911 | Alvy Singer
112 | 912 | San
113 | 913 | Andy Dufresne
114 | 914 | Lester Burnham
115 | 915 | Rose DeWitt Bukater
116 | 916 | Sean Maguire
117 | 917 | Ed
118 | 918 | Renton
120 | 920 | Elizabeth Darko
121 | 921 | Older Jamal
122 | 922 | Ripley
114 | 923 | Bobby Darin
109 | 909 | J.J. Gittes
119 | 919 | Alfred Borden
Sample Solution:
-- Selecting specific columns from the tables movie, movie_direction, movie_cast, director, and actor
SELECT mov_title, mov_year, dir_fname, dir_lname,
act_fname, act_lname, role
-- Performing natural joins between the movie, movie_direction, movie_cast, director, and actor tables
FROM movie
NATURAL JOIN movie_direction
NATURAL JOIN movie_cast
NATURAL JOIN director
NATURAL JOIN actor
-- Filtering the result to include only records where mov_time is equal to the minimum mov_time in the movie table
WHERE mov_time = (SELECT MIN(mov_time) FROM movie);
Sample Output:
mov_title | mov_year | dir_fname | dir_lname | act_fname | act_lname | role
----------------------------------------------------+----------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+-------------------------------
Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody | Allen | Woody | Allen | Alvy Singer
(1 rows)
Code Explanation :
The describe query in SQL that selects the movie title, year, director first name and last name, actor first name and last name, and role for the movie(s) with the shortest duration. The results are obtained by joining the movie, movie_direction, movie_cast, director, and actor tables.
The NATURAL JOIN keywords joins the movie, movie_direction, movie_cast, director, and actor tables based on their common columns (movie ID, director ID, and actor ID).
The WHERE clause filters the results to include only those movies with the shortest duration, which is obtained by using a subquery, and that is to select the minimum duration from the movie table.
Alternative Solutions:
Using INNER JOIN and WHERE Clause:
SELECT m.mov_title, m.mov_year, d.dir_fname, d.dir_lname, a.act_fname, a.act_lname, mc.role
FROM movie m
JOIN movie_direction md ON m.mov_id = md.mov_id
JOIN movie_cast mc ON m.mov_id = mc.mov_id
JOIN director d ON md.dir_id = d.dir_id
JOIN actor a ON mc.act_id = a.act_id
WHERE m.mov_time = (SELECT MIN(mov_time) FROM movie);
Explanation:
This query uses INNER JOINs to combine the movie, movie_direction, movie_cast, director, and actor tables based on their respective IDs. It then applies a WHERE clause to filter for movies with the shortest runtime. It selects the movie title, year, director's first name, last name, actor's first name, last name, and role.
Using WHERE Clause with Table Aliases:
SELECT m.mov_title, m.mov_year, d.dir_fname, d.dir_lname, a.act_fname, a.act_lname, mc.role
FROM movie m, movie_direction md, movie_cast mc, director d, actor a
WHERE m.mov_id = md.mov_id
AND m.mov_id = mc.mov_id
AND md.dir_id = d.dir_id
AND mc.act_id = a.act_id
AND m.mov_time = (SELECT MIN(mov_time) FROM movie);
Explanation:
This query uses the older comma-separated syntax for joining tables and specifies the join conditions in the WHERE clause. It then applies a WHERE clause to filter for movies with the shortest runtime. It selects the movie title, year, director's first name, last name, actor's first name, last name, and role.
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