Learn SQL

If you haven't already make sure you watch this video which will teach you all the basics of SQL in 60 minutes.

After watching the video try to complete the exercises listed below using the data provided in this repository.

All of the solutions are available in the repository, and this video goes over all of the solutions.

Setup

First drop your existing database that was created in the tutorial. DROP DATABASE record_company;

Copy the code inside the schema.sql file, paste it into MySQL Workbench, and run it. (This file contains the code necessary to create and add the tables from the tutorial video)

Exercises

1. Create a Songs Table

Solution

This table should be called songs and have four properties with these exact names.

1. id: An integer that is the primary key, and auto increments.
2. name: A string that cannot be null.
3. length: A float that represents the length of the song in minutes that cannot be null.
4. album_id: An integer that is a foreign key referencing the albums table that cannot be null.

After successfully creating the table copy the code from data.sql into MySQL Workbench, and run it to populate all of the data for the rest of the exercises. If you do not encounter any errors, then your answer is most likely correct.

2. Select only the Names of all the Bands

Solution

Change the name of the column the data returns to Band Name

Band Name
Seventh Wonder
Metallica
The Ocean
Within Temptation
Death
Van Canto
Dream Theater

3. Select the Oldest Album

Solution

Make sure to only return one result from this query, and that you are not returning any albums that do not have a release year.

id	name	release_year	band_id
5	...And Justice for All	1988	2

4. Get all Bands that have Albums

Solution

There are multiple different ways to solve this problem, but they will all involve a join.

Return the band name as Band Name.

Band Name
Seventh Wonder
Metallica
The Ocean
Within Temptation
Death
Van Canto

5. Get all Bands that have No Albums

Solution

This is very similar to #4 but will require more than just a join.

Return the band name as Band Name.

Band Name
Dream Theater

6. Get the Longest Album

Solution

This problem sounds a lot like #3 but the solution is quite a bit different. I would recommend looking up the SUM aggregate function.

Return the album name as Name, the album release year as Release Year, and the album length as Duration.

Name	Release Year	Duration
Death Magnetic	2008	74.76666593551636

7. Update the Release Year of the Album with no Release Year

Solution

Set the release year to 1986.

You may run into an error if you try to update the release year by using release_year IS NULL in the WHERE statement of your UPDATE. This is because MySQL Workbench by default will not let you update a table that has a primary key without using the primary key in the UPDATE statement. This is a good thing since you almost never want to update rows without using the primary key, so to get around this error make sure to use the primary key of the row you want to update in the WHERE of the UPDATE statement.

8. Insert a record for your favorite Band and one of their Albums

Solution

If you performed this correctly you should be able to now see that band and album in your tables.

9. Delete the Band and Album you added in #8

Solution

The order of how you delete the records is important since album has a foreign key to band.

10. Get the Average Length of all Songs

Solution

Return the average length as Average Song Duration.

Average Song Duration
5.352472513259112

11. Select the longest Song off each Album

Solution

Return the album name as Album, the album release year as Release Year, and the longest song length as Duration.

Album	Release Year	Duration
Tiara	2018	9.5
The Great Escape	2010	30.2333
Mercy Falls	2008	9.48333
Master of Puppets	1986	8.58333
...And Justice for All	1988	9.81667
Death Magnetic	2008	9.96667
Heliocentric	2010	7.48333
Pelagial	2013	9.28333
Anthropocentric	2010	9.4
Resist	2018	5.85
The Unforgiving	2011	5.66667
Enter	1997	7.25
The Sound of Perseverance	1998	8.43333
Individual Thought Patterns	1993	4.81667
Human	1991	4.65
A Storm to Come	2006	5.21667
Break the Silence	2011	6.15
Tribe of Force	2010	8.38333

12. Get the number of Songs for each Band

Solution

This is one of the toughest question on the list. It will require you to chain together two joins instead of just one.

Return the band name as Band, the number of songs as Number of Songs.

Band	Number of Songs
Seventh Wonder	35
Metallica	27
The Ocean	31
Within Temptation	30
Death	27
Van Canto	32