Discussion 10: SQL
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Getting Started
Everybody say your name, and then share your favorite restaurant, cafe, or boba shop near campus. (Yes, Kingpin Donuts counts as a restaurant.)
Select Statements
A SELECT
statement describes an output table based on input rows. To write one:
- Describe the input rows using
FROM
andWHERE
clauses. - Format and order the output rows and columns using
SELECT
andORDER BY
clauses.
SELECT
(Step 2) FROM
(Step 1) WHERE
(Step 1) ORDER BY
(Step 2);
The WHERE
and ORDER BY
clauses are optional.
Pizza Time
The pizzas
table contains the names, opening, and closing hours of great pizza
places in Berkeley. The meals
table contains typical meal times (for college
students). A pizza place is open for a meal if the meal time is at or within the
open
and close
times.
CREATE TABLE pizzas AS
SELECT "Artichoke" AS name, 12 AS open, 15 AS close UNION
SELECT "La Val's" , 11 , 22 UNION
SELECT "Sliver" , 11 , 20 UNION
SELECT "Cheeseboard" , 16 , 23 UNION
SELECT "Emilia's" , 13 , 18;
CREATE TABLE meals AS
SELECT "breakfast" AS meal, 11 AS time UNION
SELECT "lunch" , 13 UNION
SELECT "dinner" , 19 UNION
SELECT "snack" , 22;
Q1: Open Early
You'd like to have pizza before 13 o'clock (1pm). Create a opening
table with
the names of all pizza places that open
before 13 o'clock, listed in reverse
alphabetical order.
opening
table:
name |
---|
Sliver |
La Val's |
Artichoke |
-- Pizza places that open before 1pm in alphabetical order
CREATE TABLE opening AS
SELECT name FROM pizzas WHERE open < 13 ORDER BY name DESC;
name
in reverse alphabitical order, write ORDER BY name DESC
.
Q2: Study Session
You're planning to study at a pizza place from the moment it opens until 14
o'clock (2pm). Create a table study
with two columns, the name
of each pizza
place and the duration
of the study session you would have if you studied there
(the difference between when it opens and 14 o'clock). For pizza places that are
not open before 2pm, the duration
should be zero. Order the
rows by decreasing duration.
Hint: Use an expression of the form MAX(_, 0)
to make sure a result is not below 0.
study
table:
name | duration |
---|---|
La Val's | 3 |
Sliver | 3 |
Artichoke | 2 |
Emilia's | 1 |
Cheeseboard | 0 |
-- Pizza places and the duration of a study break that ends at 14 o'clock
CREATE TABLE study AS
SELECT name, MAX(14 - open, 0) AS duration FROM pizzas ORDER BY duration DESC;
SELECT ..., ... AS duration ...
, then ORDER BY duration DESC
.
Q3: Late Night Snack
What's still open for a late night snack
? Create a late
table with one
column named status
that has a sentence describing the closing time of each
pizza place that closes at or after snack
time. Important: Don't use any
numbers in your SQL query! Instead, use a join to compare each restaurant's
closing time to the time of a snack. The rows may appear in any order.
late
table:
status |
---|
Cheeseboard closes at 23 |
La Val's closes at 22 |
The ||
operator in SQL concatenates two strings together, just like +
in Python.
-- Pizza places that are open for late-night-snack time and when they close
CREATE TABLE late AS
SELECT name || " closes at " || close AS status
FROM pizzas, meals
WHERE meal="snack" AND time <= close;
close
time to the time of a snack:
- join the
pizzas
andmeals
tables usingFROM pizzas, meals
- use only rows where the
meal
is a"snack"
- compare the
time
of the snack to theclose
of the pizza place.
name || " closes at " || close
to create the sentences in the resulting table. The ||
operator concatenates values into strings.
Document the Occasion
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