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SQL Cheat Sheet - Fetching Data from Table

Query 1 : Fetch the records from Column1,Column2 from Employee Table.

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM Employee;

Query 2 : Fetch all the records from Employee table.

SELECT * FROM Employee;

Query 3 : What is Query data and filter rows with a condition

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM Employee

WHERE condition;

Query 4 : What is Query distinct rows from a table

SELECT DISTINCT Column1 FROM Employee

WHERE condition;

Query 5 : How to Sort the result set in ascending or descending order

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM Employee

ORDER BY Column1 ASC [DESC];

Query 6 : How to return N rows from Employee table.

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM Employee

ORDER BY Column1
LIMIT n OFFSET offset;

Query 7 : How to Group rows using an aggregate function?

SELECT Column1, aggregate(Column2)

FROM Employee
GROUP BY Column1;

Query 8 : How do you filter groups using Having Clause.

SELECT Column1, aggregate(Column2)

FROM Employee
GROUP BY Column1
HAVING condition;

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SQL Cheat Sheet - Working with Multiple tables

Query 1 : How to Join 2 tables using Inner join table - t1 and table t2

SELECT Column1, Column2 FROM t1 INNER JOIN t2 ON condition;

Query 2 : How to Join 2 tables using left join - table-t1 and table t2.

SELECT Column1, Column2

FROM t1
LEFT JOIN t2 ON condition;

Query 3 : How to Join 2 tables using right join - table-t1 and table t2.

SELECT Column1, Column2

FROM t1
RIGHT JOIN t2 ON condition;

Query 4 : How to Perform full outer join with using t1 and t2 table.

SELECT Column1, Column2

FROM t1
FULL OUTER JOIN t2 ON condition;

Query 5 : How to produce Cartesian product of 2 tables?

SELECT Column1, Column2

FROM t1
CROSS JOIN t2;

Way 2 for cartesian or cross join :

SELECT Column1, Column2

FROM t1, t2;

Query 6 :How to do Self Join of the table t1

SELECT Column1, Column2

FROM t1 A
INNER JOIN t1 B ON condition;

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SQL Cheat sheet - SQL Operators

Query 1 : How to Combine two rows from table t1 and table t2.

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t1

UNION [ALL]
SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t2;

Query 2 : How to intersect the data from table t1 and table t2.

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t1

INTERSECT
SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t2;

Query 3 : How to Subtract a result set of table t1 from another result set of table t2.

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t1

MINUS
SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t2;

Query 4 : How to Query rows using pattern matching %, _

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t1

WHERE Column1 [NOT] LIKE pattern;

Query 5: How to fetch records from Value list?

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t

WHERE Column1 [NOT] IN value_list;

Query 6 : How to fetch all columns between two ranges?

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t

WHERE Column1 BETWEEN Low_range_value AND high_range_value;

Query 7: How to Check if values in a table is NULL or not?

SELECT Column1,Column2 FROM t

WHERE Column1 IS [NOT] NULL;

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SQL Cheat Sheet- Create Table and Manage tables

Query 1 : Create a new table t1 with three columns and having primary key.

CREATE TABLE t (
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR NOT NULL,
price INT DEFAULT 0
);

Query 2 : How to delete the table from the database?

DROP TABLE t ;

Query 3 : How to add a new column to the table t1?

ALTER TABLE t ADD column;

Query 4 : How to Drop column column1 from the table?

ALTER TABLE t DROP COLUMN column1 ;

Query 5 : How to Add a constraint to the table?

ALTER TABLE t ADD constraint;

Query 6 : How to Drop a constraint from table t1?

ALTER TABLE t DROP constraint;

Query 7 : How to rename a table from t1 to t2?

ALTER TABLE t1 RENAME TO t2;

Query 8 :How to rename column c1 to c2?

ALTER TABLE t1 RENAME c1 TO c2 ;

Query 9 : How to remove data from table t1?

TRUNCATE TABLE t;

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SQL Cheat Sheet - With SQL Constraints

Query 1 : How to set two primary keys (Composite key) for one table t1 ?

CREATE TABLE t1(

column1 INT, column2 INT, column3 VARCHAR,
PRIMARY KEY (column1,column2)
);

Query 2 : How to Set Foreign Key to table t1?

CREATE TABLE t1(

column1 INT PRIMARY KEY,
column2 INT,
FOREIGN KEY (column2 ) REFERENCES t2(column2 )
);

Query 3 :How to set unique columns for table t1?

CREATE TABLE t1(

column1 INT, column2 INT,column3 INT
UNIQUE(column2 ,column3 )
);

Query 4 : How to add Check constraint which ensure column1 > 0 and values in
column1 >= column2?

CREATE TABLE t1(

column1 INT, column2 INT,
CHECK(column1 > 0 AND column1 >= column2)
);

Query 5 : How to set Not Null Constraint for table t1?

CREATE TABLE t1(

column1 INT PRIMARY KEY,
column2 VARCHAR NOT NULL
);

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SQL Cheat sheet - Modifying the Data

Query 1 :How to insert one row into a table t1?

INSERT INTO t(column_list)

VALUES(value_list);
commit;

Query 2 : How to Insert multiple rows in table t1?

INSERT INTO t1(column_list)

VALUES (value_list),
(value_list), …;

Query 3 : How to Insert rows from One table (t2) to other table t1?

INSERT INTO t1(column_list)

SELECT column_list
FROM t2;

Query 4 : How to Update new value in the column column1 for all rows?

UPDATE t1
SET column1 = new_value;

Query 5 : How to Update values in the column column1, column2 that match the
condition?

UPDATE t
SET column1 = new_value,
column2 = new_value
WHERE condition;

Query 6 : How to Delete all data from the table?

DELETE FROM t1;

Query 7 : How to Delete subset of rows in a table?

DELETE FROM t1
WHERE condition;

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SQL Cheat Sheet - Managing views

Query 1 : How to Create a new view that consists of column1 and column2?

CREATE VIEW v(column1,column2)

AS
SELECT column1, column2
FROM t1;

Query 2 : How to Create a new view with check constraint?

CREATE VIEW v(column1,column2)

AS
SELECT column1, column2
FROM t;
WITH [CASCADED | LOCAL] CHECK OPTION;

Query 3 : How to Create a recursive view with multiple tables?

CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW v

AS
select-statement -- anchor part
UNION [ALL]
select-statement; -- recursive part

Query 4 :How to create temporary view

CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW v

AS
SELECT column1, column2
FROM t1;

Query 5 : How to Delete a view

DROP VIEW view_name;

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SQL Cheat Sheet - Managing Indexes

Query 1 : How to Create an index on column1 and column2 of the t table?

CREATE INDEX index_name

ON t1(column1,column2);

Query 2 : How to Create an unique index on column3, column4 of the t table

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_name

ON t(c3,c4);

Query 3 : How to Drop Index?

DROP INDEX index_name ;

SQL Cheat Sheet - Managing triggers

Query 1 : How to create or Modify the Triggers?

CREATE OR MODIFY TRIGGER trigger_name

WHEN EVENT
ON table_name TRIGGER_TYPE
EXECUTE stored_procedure;

WHEN

• BEFORE – invoke before the event occurs

• AFTER – invoke after the event occurs

EVENT

• INSERT – invoke for INSERT

• UPDATE – invoke for UPDATE
• DELETE – invoke for DELETE

TRIGGER_TYPE

• FOR EACH ROW

• FOR EACH STATEMENT

Query 2: How to Delete a specific trigger?

DROP TRIGGER trigger_name;

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