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Exercise #2

List all printer makers. Result set: maker.

Here, a mistake typical for a number of exercises (e.g., 20, 27, 28) occurs for the first time. Its cause lies in the database schema not being studied careful enough. Here’s one of the incorrect solutions:

Console
Execute
  1. SELECT DISTINCT maker
  2. FROM Product
  3. WHERE model IN (SELECT model
  4. FROM Printer
  5. );

Thus, for each row in the Product table it is checked whether there is a corresponding model in the Printer table. The relationship between these two tables (one-to-many) allows the existence of a model in the Product table absent from the Printer table.

Let’s consider, say, a printer repair company. Moreover, the Product table contains data for all known printer models, while the Printer table restricts itself to models our company provides service for. E.g., if the company doesn’t repair printers by Sharp, models made by Sharp may be found in the Product table but will be missing from the Printer table.

As a result we’ll miss printer makers not having models provided service for (in the Printer table). As already pointed out when discussing the database schema, the product type in the Product table is determined by the type column, which has been overlooked in our case.

If you’re still wondering how to solve this exercise check out Chapter 4 «Tips and solutions».

Attention:

If additional comments are provided or the fallacious decisIf additional comments or a correct solution are provided for an exercise, a link to the corresponding section of the aforementioned chapter can be found at the end of the exercise analysis  – T&S.

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