SQL Exercise: How many games the goalkeeper played for his team?
SQL soccer Database: Joins Exercise-24 with Solution
24. From the following tables, write a SQL query to find the number of matches played by a player as a goalkeeper for his team. Return country name, player name, number of matches played as a goalkeeper.
Sample table: player_mast
Sample table: match_details
Sample table: soccer_country
Sample Solution:
SQL Code:
SELECT b.country_name,c.player_name,COUNT(a.player_gk) count_gk
FROM match_details a
JOIN soccer_country b ON a.team_id=b.country_id
JOIN player_mast c ON a.player_gk=c.player_id
GROUP BY b.country_name,c.player_name
ORDER BY country_name,player_name,count_gk DESC;
Sample Output:
country_name | player_name | count_gk ---------------------+---------------------+---------- Albania | Etrit Berisha | 3 Austria | Robert Almer | 3 Belgium | Thibaut Courtois | 5 Croatia | Danijel SubaSic | 4 Czech Republic | Petr Cech | 3 England | Joe Hart | 4 France | Hugo Lloris | 7 Germany | Manuel Neuer | 6 Hungary | Gabor Kiraly | 4 Iceland | Hannes Halldorsson | 5 Italy | Gianluigi Buffon | 4 Italy | Salvatore Sirigu | 1 Northern Ireland | Michael McGovern | 4 Poland | Lukasz Fabianski | 4 Poland | Wojciech Szczesny | 1 Portugal | Rui Patricio | 7 Republic of Ireland | Darren Randolph | 4 Romania | Ciprian Tatarusanu | 3 Russia | Igor Akinfeev | 3 Slovakia | MatusKozacik | 4 Spain | David de Gea | 4 Sweden | Andreas Isaksson | 3 Switzerland | Yann Sommer | 4 Turkey | Volkan Babacan | 3 Ukraine | Andriy Pyatov | 3 Wales | Danny Ward | 1 Wales | Wayne Hennessey | 5 (27 rows)
Code Explanation:
The said query in SQL that retrieves the country name, player name, and count_gk columns from the match_details, soccer_country, and player_mast tables.
The JOIN clause joins the table match_details on team_id with soccer_country, and the table player_mast on player_gk with player_id column.
The query groups the data by country name and player name, and orders the data by country name, player name, and count_gk in descending order.
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Sample Database: soccer

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