Q1: Find top two female employees with highest salaries and bottom two male employees with
lowest salaries, displaying Employee ID, Name, Gender, Salary.
WITH RankedEmployees AS (
SELECT
EmployeeID,
EmployeeName,
Gender,
Salary,
CASE
WHEN Gender = 'Female' THEN
RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY Gender ORDER BY Salary DESC)
WHEN Gender = 'Male' THEN
RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY Gender ORDER BY Salary ASC)
END AS SalaryRank
FROM Employee
SELECT
EmployeeID,
EmployeeName,
Gender,
Salary
FROM RankedEmployees
WHERE (Gender = 'Female' AND SalaryRank <= 2)
OR (Gender = 'Male' AND SalaryRank <= 2);
Q2: Departments where total salary > average salary (with Unit, Department, Salary, Employees
count)
SELECT
f.UnitID,
f.DepartmentID,
d.UnitName,
d.DepartmentName,
SUM(f.Salary) AS TotalSalary,
COUNT(f.EmployeeID) AS NumberOfEmployees
FROM FactTable f
JOIN DimensionTable d ON f.UnitID = d.UnitID AND f.DepartmentID = d.DepartmentID
GROUP BY f.UnitID, f.DepartmentID, d.UnitName, d.DepartmentName
HAVING SUM(f.Salary) > (SELECT AVG(Salary) FROM FactTable);
Q3: Top 2 and bottom 2 salary receivers from each Unit (Only males in IT unit)
WITH RankedSalaries AS (
SELECT
f.UnitID,
d.UnitName,
f.EmployeeID,
f.EmployeeName,
f.Gender,
f.Age,
f.Salary,
f.Department,
CASE
WHEN f.UnitID = 'U02' AND f.Gender != 'Male' THEN NULL
ELSE ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY f.UnitID ORDER BY Salary DESC)
END AS TopRank,
CASE
WHEN f.UnitID = 'U02' AND f.Gender != 'Male' THEN NULL
ELSE ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY f.UnitID ORDER BY Salary ASC)
END AS BottomRank
FROM FactTable f
JOIN DimensionTable d ON f.UnitID = d.UnitID
SELECT
UnitID,
UnitName,
EmployeeID,
EmployeeName,
Gender,
Age,
Salary,
Department,
CASE
WHEN TopRank <= 2 THEN 'Top 2'
WHEN BottomRank <= 2 THEN 'Bottom 2'
END AS Category
FROM RankedSalaries
WHERE (TopRank <= 2 OR BottomRank <= 2);
Q4: Employees earning more than their department's average salary
WITH DeptAvgSalary AS (
SELECT DepartmentID, AVG(Salary) AS AvgSalary
FROM Emp
GROUP BY DepartmentID
SELECT e.*
FROM Emp e
JOIN DeptAvgSalary d ON e.DepartmentID = d.DepartmentID
WHERE e.Salary > d.AvgSalary;
Q5: Country-wise percentage of returned orders
SELECT
a.Country,
COUNT(r.OrderID) * 100.0 / COUNT(a.OrderID) AS ReturnPercentage
FROM All_Orders a
LEFT JOIN Returned_Orders r ON a.OrderID = r.OrderID
GROUP BY a.Country;
Q6: Remove redundancy in cars table (model_name, color, brand)
sql
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SELECT DISTINCT model_name, color, brand, model_id
FROM (
SELECT
model_name,
color,
brand,
MIN(model_id) AS model_id
FROM cars
GROUP BY model_name, color, brand
) AS unique_cars;
Q7: Derive "actual_distance" in car_travels table
SELECT
car_id,
travel_date,
MAX(meter_reading) - MIN(meter_reading) AS actual_distance
FROM car_travels
GROUP BY car_id, travel_date;
Q8: Remove duplicate source-destination distances (keep A -> B only)
SELECT
MIN(source) AS Source,
MIN(destination) AS Destination,
MIN(distance) AS Distance
FROM (
SELECT
CASE WHEN source < destination THEN source ELSE destination END AS source,
CASE WHEN source < destination THEN destination ELSE source END AS destination,
distance
FROM src_dest_distance
) AS t
GROUP BY source, destination;
Q9: First Login and Last Logout for employees for last 7 days
SELECT
EmployeeID,
CAST(LoginDateTime AS DATE) AS LoginDate,
MIN(LoginDateTime) AS FirstLogin,
MAX(LogoutDateTime) AS LastLogout
FROM Emp
WHERE LoginDateTime >= DATEADD(DAY, -7, CAST(GETDATE() AS DATE))
GROUP BY EmployeeID, CAST(LoginDateTime AS DATE);
Q10: Fetch duplicate records from Emp table
SELECT
EmployeeID,
EmployeeName,
DepartmentID,
Salary,
COUNT(*) AS DuplicateCount
FROM Emp
GROUP BY EmployeeID, EmployeeName, DepartmentID, Salary
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;
Q11: List team and opponent combinations
SELECT
t1.TeamName AS Team,
t2.TeamName AS Opponent
FROM teams t1
JOIN teams t2 ON t1.TeamID < t2.TeamID;
Q12: Return records based on total_count in travel_items table
SELECT
item_name
FROM travel_items
CROSS APPLY (
SELECT TOP (total_count) 1
FROM master.dbo.spt_values
) AS X;
(Note: master.dbo.spt_values is a trick to generate rows in SQL Server.)
Q13: Pivot CountryCategorySales table into separate category columns
SELECT
Country,
SUM(CASE WHEN Category = 'Furniture' THEN Sales ELSE 0 END) AS Furniture,
SUM(CASE WHEN Category = 'Office Supplies' THEN Sales ELSE 0 END) AS OfficeSupplies,
SUM(CASE WHEN Category = 'Technology' THEN Sales ELSE 0 END) AS Technology
FROM CountryCategorySales
GROUP BY Country;
