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Exercise #16 (tips and solutions)

The redundancy of the solution 1.12.2 can be eliminated by removing the subquery completely and performing the join between the tables P and L. This way, the query will not just become shorter, but also easy to read and, which is no less important, more efficient.

Here is another example of a query difficult to read; this solution would be correct if the model column was numeric:

Console
Execute
  1. SELECT MAX(model1), MIN(model2), MAX(speed), MAX(ram) 
  2. FROM (SELECT pc1.model AS model1, pc2.model AS model2, pc1.speed, pc2.ram, 
  3.              CASE WHEN CAST(pc1.model AS NUMERIC(6,2)) > 
  4.                        CAST(pc2.model AS NUMERIC(6,2)) 
  5.                   THEN pc1.model+pc2.model  
  6.                   ELSE pc2.model+pc1.model  
  7.              END AS sm 
  8.       FROM PC pc1, PC pc2 
  9.       WHERE pc1.speed = pc2.speed AND 
  10.             pc1.ram = pc2.ram AND 
  11.             pc1.model <> pc2.model
  12.       ) a 
  13. GROUP BY a.sm;

However, the data type VARCHAR(50) implies the presence of arbitrary characters, which is the case for the checking database (say, model T-64). For such data, the type conversion operation

  1. CAST(pc1.model AS NUMERIC(6,2))
will cause an error.

To me, this seems like a good example of how not to write queries. But how to write them? Have a look at the exercise forum after solving it to find the best examples.

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