SQL Exercises: Show all the details of the winners with the first name Louis

SQL Basic Select Statement: Exercise-18 with Solution.

From the following table, write a SQL query to retrieve the details of the winners whose first names match with the string ‘Louis’. Return year, subject, winner, country, and category.

Sample table: nobel_win

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
 FROM nobel_win 
   WHERE winner LIKE 'Louis %';

Output of the Query:

year	subject	winner	country	category
1970	Physics	Louis Neel	France	Scientist

Code Explanation:

The said SQL query retrieves all columns from the 'nobel_win' table where the winner's name starts with "Louis" followed by any characters. The query will return all rows that match this criteria, resulting in a list of all Nobel Prizes awarded to winners whose name starts with "Louis". The LIKE operator is used to match a specific pattern, in this case it will match any name that starts with Louis followed by any characters. The '%' sign is a wildcard character that matches any sequence of characters.

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