SQLZOO Select from World Practice Solutions.

large countries

2.

Show the name for the countries that have a population of at least 200 million. 200 million is 200000000, there are eight zeros.

								
SELECT name FROM world
WHERE population >= 200000000;
								
							

per Capita GDP

3.

Give the name and the per capita GDP for those countries with a population of at least 200 million.

per capita GDP is the GDP divided by the population GDP/population

								
SELECT name, gdp/population as per_capita_gdp
FROM world
WHERE population >= 200000000;
								
							

South America In Millions

4.

Show the name and population in millions for the countries of the continent 'South America'. Divide the population by 1000000 to get population in millions.

								
SELECT name, population/1000000 as population_mils
FROM world
WHERE continent = 'south america';
								
							

France, Germany, Italy

5.

Show the name and population for France, Germany, Italy

								
select name, population
from world
where name in ('france', 'italy', 'germany');
								
							

United

6.

Show the countries which have a name that includes the word 'United'

								
select name
from world 
where name like '%united%';
								
							

Two ways to be big

7.

Two ways to be big: A country is big if it has an area of more than 3 million sq km or it has a population of more than 250 million.

Show the countries that are big by area or big by population. Show name, population and area.

								
select name, population, area
from world
where area > 3000000 or population > 250000000;
								
							

One or the other (but not both)

8.

Exclusive OR (XOR). Show the countries that are big by area (more than 3 million) or big by population (more than 250 million) but not both. Show name, population and area.

Australia has a big area but a small population, it should be included. Indonesia has a big population but a small area, it should be included. China has a big population and big area, it should be excluded. United Kingdom has a small population and a small area, it should be excluded.

								
SELECT name, population, area
FROM world
WHERE population > 250000000 AND NOT area > 3000000
OR
area > 3000000 AND NOT population > 250000000;
								
							

Rounding

9.

Show the name and population in millions and the GDP in billions for the countries of the continent 'South America'. Use the ROUND function to show the values to two decimal places.

For South America show population in millions and GDP in billions both to 2 decimal places.

								
SELECT name,
ROUND(population/1000000 ,2) as population_mil,
ROUND(GDP/1000000000 ,2) as GDP_billions
FROM world
WHERE continent ='south america';
    
								
							

Trillion dollar economies

10.

Show the name and per-capita GDP for those countries with a GDP of at least one trillion (1000000000000; that is 12 zeros). Round this value to the nearest 1000.

Show per-capita GDP for the trillion dollar countries to the nearest $1000.

								
SELECT name,
ROUND(gdp/population, -3) as gdp_thousands
FROM world
WHERE gdp > 1000000000000;
								
							

Name and capital have the same lenght

11.

Greece has capital Athens.Each of the strings 'Greece', and 'Athens' has 6 characters.

Show the name and capital where the name and the capital have the same number of characters.

								
SELECT name, capital
FROM world
WHERE LENGTH(name) = LENGTH(capital);
								
							

Matching name and capital

12.

The capital of Sweden is Stockholm. Both words start with the letter 'S'.

Show the name and the capital where the first letters of each match. Don't include countries where the name and the capital are the same word.

You can use the function LEFT to isolate the first character. You can use <> as the NOT EQUALS operator.

								
SELECT name, capital
FROM world
WHERE LEFT(name,1) = LEFT(capital,1) 
AND name <> capital;
								
							

All the vowels

13.

Equatorial Guinea and Dominican Republic have all of the vowels (a e i o u) in the name. They don't count because they have more than one word in the name.

Find the country that has all the vowels and no spaces in its name.

								
SELECT name FROM world
WHERE name LIKE '%a%'
AND name LIKE '%e%'
AND name LIKE '%i%'
AND name LIKE '%o%'
AND name LIKE '%u%'
AND name NOT LIKE '% %';