sqlzoo答案1-SELECT names

sqlzoo练习sql：SELECT names - SQLZoo

world表：

name	continent
Afghanistan	Asia
Albania	Europe
Algeria	Africa
Andorra	Europe
Angola	Africa
....

1.

You can use WHERE name LIKE 'B%' to find the countries that start with "B".

• The % is a wild-card it can match any characters

Find the country that start with Y

SELECT name FROM world
  WHERE name LIKE 'Y%'

2.

Find the countries that end with y

SELECT name FROM world
  WHERE name LIKE '%Y'

3.

Luxembourg has an x - so does one other country. List them both.

Find the countries that contain the letter x

SELECT name FROM world
  WHERE name LIKE '%x%'

4.

Iceland, Switzerland end with land - but are there others?

Find the countries that end with land

SELECT name FROM world
  WHERE name LIKE '%land'

5.

Columbia starts with a C and ends with ia - there are two more like this.

Find the countries that start with C and end with ia

SELECT name FROM world
  WHERE name LIKE 'C%ia'

6.

Greece has a double e - who has a double o?

Find the country that has oo in the name

SELECT name FROM world
  WHERE name LIKE '%oo%'

7.

Bahamas has three a - who else?

Find the countries that have three or more a in the name

SELECT name FROM world
  WHERE name LIKE '%a%a%a%' 

8.

India and Angola have an n as the second character. You can use the underscore as a single character wildcard.

SELECT name FROM world
 WHERE name LIKE '_n%'
ORDER BY name

Find the countries that have "t" as the second character.

SELECT name FROM world
 WHERE name LIKE '_t%'
ORDER BY name

9.

Lesotho and Moldova both have two o characters separated by two other characters.

Find the countries that have two "o" characters separated by two others.

SELECT name FROM world
 WHERE name LIKE '%o__o%'

10.

Cuba and Togo have four characters names.

Find the countries that have exactly four characters.

SELECT name FROM world
 WHERE name LIKE '____'

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Well done for getting this far.

The next questions are optional and only for students who are finding the basic questions too easy.

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11.

The capital of Luxembourg is Luxembourg. Show all the countries where the capital is the same as the name of the country

Find the country where the name is the capital city.

SELECT name
  FROM world
 WHERE name = capital

12. concat

The capital of Mexico is Mexico City. Show all the countries where the capital has the country together with the word "City".

Find the country where the capital is the country plus "City".

The concat function？

The function concat is short for concatenate - you can use it to combine two or more strings.

SELECT name
  FROM world
 WHERE capital LIKE concat (name,'%city') 

关于concat：

CONCAT - SQLZoo

1.

In this example you put the region and the name together for each country.

SELECT CONCAT(region,name)
  FROM bbc

Result:

CONCAT(region,name)
AfricaAngola
AfricaBenin
AfricaBotswana
AfricaBurkina Faso
AfricaBurundi
AfricaCameroon
AfricaCape Verde
AfricaCentral African Republic
AfricaChad
AfricaComoros

2.

SELECT CONCAT(region,'%city')
  FROM bbc

Result:

CONCAT(region,'%city')
Africa%city
Africa%city
Africa%city
Africa%city
Africa%city
Africa%city
Africa%city

13.

Find the capital and the name where the capital includes the name of the country.

select capital,name from world
where capital like concat(name,'%')

14.

Find the capital and the name where the capital is an extension of name of the country.

You should include Mexico City as it is longer than Mexico. You should not include Luxembourg as the capital is the same as the country.

select capital,name from world
where capital like concat(name,'%') and capital !=name

15. replace

The capital of Monaco is Monaco-Ville: this is the name Monaco and the extension is -Ville.

Show the name and the extension where the capital is a proper (non-empty) extension of name of the country.

You can use the SQL function REPLACE.

select name,replace(capital,name,'')
from world
where capital like concat(name,'%') and replace(capital,name,'') !=''

关于replace：

REPLACE - SQLZoo

In this example you remove all the 'a's from the name of each country. This happens because the string 'a' is replaced with .

SELECT name,
       REPLACE(name, 'a','')
  FROM bbc

Result:

name	REPLACE(name, 'a','')
Angola	Angol
Benin	Benin
Botswana	Botswn
Burkina Faso	Burkin Fso
Burundi	Burundi
Cameroon	Cmeroon
Cape Verde	Cpe Verde
Central African Republic	Centrl Africn Republic
Chad	Chd
Comoros	Comoros
Democratic Republic of Congo	Democrtic Republic of Congo