SELECT from WORLD Tutorial
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name | continent | area | population | gdp |
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Afghanistan | Asia | 652230 | 25500100 | 20343000000 |
Albania | Europe | 28748 | 2831741 | 12960000000 |
Algeria | Africa | 2381741 | 37100000 | 188681000000 |
Andorra | Europe | 468 | 78115 | 3712000000 |
Angola | Africa | 1246700 | 20609294 | 100990000000 |
... |
In this tutorial you will use the SELECT command on the table world
:
Introduction
Read the notes about this table. Observe the result of running this SQL command to show the name, continent and population of all countries.
SELECT name, continent, population FROM world
SELECT name, continent, population FROM world
Large Countries
How to use WHERE to filter records. Show the name for the countries that have a population of at least 200 million. 200 million is 200000000, there are eight zeros.
SELECT name FROM world
WHERE population = 64105700
SELECT name FROM world
WHERE population>200000000
Per capita GDP
Give the name
and the per capita GDP for those countries with a population
of at least 200 million.
per capita GDP is the GDP divided by the population GDP/population
SELECT name, gdp/population FROM world
WHERE population > 200000000
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South America In millions
Show the name
and population
in millions for the countries of the continent
'South America'.
Divide the population by 1000000 to get population in millions.
SELECT name, population/1000000 FROM world
WHERE continent='South America'
France, Germany, Italy
Show the name
and population
for France, Germany, Italy
SELECT name, population FROM world
WHERE name IN ('France','Germany','Italy')
United
Show the countries which have a name
that includes the word 'United'
SELECT name FROM world
WHERE name LIKE '%United%'
Two ways to be big
Two ways to be big: A country is big if it has an area of more than 3 million sq km or it has a population of more than 250 million.
Show the countries that are big by area or big by population. Show name, population and area.
select name,population,area
from world
where area>3000000
or population>250000000
One or the other (but not both)
Exclusive OR (XOR). Show the countries that are big by area (more than 3 million) or big by population (more than 250 million) but not both. Show name, population and area.
- Australia has a big area but a small population, it should be included.
- Indonesia has a big population but a small area, it should be included.
- China has a big population and big area, it should be excluded.
- United Kingdom has a small population and a small area, it should be excluded.
select name, population,area
from world
where
(population>250000000 or area>3000000)
and not(population>250000000 and area>3000000)
Rounding
Show the name
and population
in millions and the GDP in billions for the countries of the continent
'South America'. Use the ROUND function to show the values to two decimal places.
SELECT name, ROUND(population/1000000.0,2),
ROUND(gdp/1000000000.0,2)
FROM world
WHERE continent='South America'
Trillion dollar economies
Show the name
and per-capita GDP for those countries with a GDP of at least one trillion (1000000000000; that is 12 zeros). Round this value to the nearest 1000.
Show per-capita GDP for the trillion dollar countries to the nearest $1000.
select name, ROUND(gdp/population,-3)
from world
where
gdp>1000000000000
Name and capital have the same length
Greece has capital Athens.
Each of the strings 'Greece', and 'Athens' has 6 characters.
Show the name and capital where the name and the capital have the same number of characters.
- You can use the LENGTH function to find the number of characters in a string
SELECT name, LENGTH(name), continent, LENGTH(continent), capital, LENGTH(capital)
FROM world
WHERE name LIKE 'G%'
SELECT name, capital
FROM world
WHERE LENGTH(name)=LENGTH(capital)
Matching name and capital
The capital of Sweden is Stockholm. Both words start with the letter 'S'.
- You can use the function LEFT to isolate the first character.
- You can use
<>
as the NOT EQUALS operator.
SELECT name, LEFT(name,1), capital
FROM world
SELECT name,capital
FROM world
WHERE LEFT(name,1)=LEFT(capital,1)
AND name<>capital
All the vowels
Equatorial Guinea and Dominican Republic have all of the vowels (a e i o u) in the name. They don't count because they have more than one word in the name.
Find the country that has all the vowels and no spaces in its name.
- You can use the phrase
name NOT LIKE '%a%'
to exclude characters from your results. - The query shown misses countries like Bahamas and Belarus because they contain at least one 'a'
SELECT name
FROM world
WHERE name LIKE 'B%'
AND name NOT LIKE '%a%'
SELECT name
FROM world
WHERE name LIKE '%a%'
AND name LIKE '%e%'
AND name LIKE '%i%'
AND name LIKE '%o%'
AND name LIKE '%u%'
AND name NOT LIKE '% %'
What Next
- BBC QUIZ
- You can to continue practising the the same techniques
and gain more experience of the basic skills on the Nobel table.
The
WHERE
statement using thenobel
table. - You can learn about nested statements, these are instructive and entertaining, but not essential for beginners.
Nested
SELECT
statements using theworld
table.