[CareerCup] 15.7 Student Grade 学生成绩

15.7 Imagine a simple database storing information for students' grades. Design what this database might look like and provide a SQL query to return a list of the honor roll students (top 10%), sorted by their grade point average.

在一个简化的数据库中我们有三个表，Students表，Courses表和CourseEnrollment表如下：

TABLE Students

+-------------+-------------+
| Students                  |
+-------------+-------------+
| StudentID   | int(11)     |
| StudentName | varchar(30) |
| Address     | varchar(50) |
+-------------+-------------+

TABLE Courses

+-------------+-------------+
| Courses                   |
+-------------+-------------+
| CourseID    | int(11)     |
| CourseName  | varchar(30) |
| ProfessorID | int(11)     |
+-------------+-------------+

TABLE CourseEnrollment

+-----------+---------+
| CourseEnrollment    |
+-----------+---------+
| CourseID  | int(11) |
| StudentID | int(11) |
| Grade     | float   |
| Term      | int(11) |
+-----------+---------+

使用SQL Server的Top .. Percent 函数可以如下代码：

-- SQL Server (Incorrect Code)
SELECT TOP 10 PERCENT AVG(CourseEnrollment.Grade) AS GPA, CourseEnrollment.StudentID
FROM CourseEnrollment GROUP BY CourseEnrollment.StudentID ORDER BY AVG(CourseEnrollment.Grade);

由于我使用的是MySQL，本来可以用Limit关键字来做，但是MySQL的Limit关键字后面只能为常量，不能为变量，所以只能换一种写法，所以代码如下：

SET @limit = (SELECT 0.1 * COUNT(*) FROM CourseEnrollment);
SELECT Grade FROM (
SELECT *, @rownum := @rownum + 1 AS rank 
FROM CourseEnrollment, (SELECT @rownum := 0) init ORDER BY Grade DESC
) d WHERE rank <= @limit ;

但是上面的写法确实返回了top 10%的行，但是假如我们有100个学生，前15个学生都是4.0的GPA，而上面的方法只能返回10个学生，而我们需要返回那15个都是4.0的学生，所以为了实现这个，我们可以这么做：

-- SQL Server
DECLARE @GPACutOff FLOAT;
SET @GPACutOff = (SELECT MIN(GPA) AS 'GPAMin' FROM (
SELECT TOP 10 PERCENT AVG(CourseEnrollment.Grade) AS GPA, FROM CourseEnrollment
GROUP BY CourseEnrollment.StudentID ORDER BY GPA DESC) Grades);
SELECT StudentName, GPA FROM (
SELECT AVG(CourseEnrollment.Grade) AS GPA, CourseEnrollment.StudentID
FROM CourseEnrollment GROUP BY CourseEnrollment.StudentID 
HAVING AVG(CourseEnrollment.Grade) >= @GPACutOff) Honors
INNER JOIN Students ON Honors.StudentID = Students.StudentID;

上面的方法先定义了一个GPACutOff变量，算出了前10%的GPA，然后在后面的代码中遍历所有的GPA，返回所有大于等于GPACutOff的行。而是用MySQL可以写出实现同样功能的代码，参考了我之前的博客Department Top Three Salaries，Department Highest Salary和Second Highest Salary，用更简洁的方式如下：

-- MySQL
SELECT c.Grade FROM CourseEnrollment c WHERE (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Grade) FROM CourseEnrollment 
WHERE Grade > c.Grade) < (SELECT 0.1 * COUNT(*) FROM CourseEnrollment) ORDER BY c.Grade DESC;

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