SELECT from Nobel Tutorial

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This tutorial is concerned with a table of Nobel prize winners:

nobel(yr, subject, winner)

1. Change the query shown so that it displays Nobel prizes for 1950.

SELECT yr, subject, winner FROM nobel WHERE yr = 1950

2. Show who won the 1962 prize for Literature.

SELECT winner FROM nobel WHERE yr = 1962 AND subject = 'Literature'

3. Show the year and subject that won ‘Albert Einstein’ his prize.

SELECT yr, subject FROM nobel WHERE winner = 'Albert Einstein'

4. Give the name of the ‘Peace’ winners since the year 2000, including 2000.

SELECT winner FROM nobel WHERE subject = 'Peace' and yr >= 2000

5. Show all details (yr, subject, winner) of the Literature prize winners for 1980 to 1989 inclusive.

SELECT yr, subject, winner 
FROM nobel 
WHERE subject = 'Literature' and yr between 1980 and 1989

6. Show all details of the presidential winners:

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Jimmy Carter
• Barack Obama

SELECT * FROM nobel
WHERE winner IN ('Theodore Roosevelt',
                  'Woodrow Wilson',
                   'Jimmy Carter',
                  'Barack Obama')

7. Show the winners with first name John

SELECT winner FROM nobel WHERE winner like concat('John',' %')

8. Show the year, subject, and name of Physics winners for 1980 together with the Chemistry winners for 1984.

SELECT yr, subject, winner FROM nobel
WHERE subject = 'Physics' and yr= 1980 
UNION
SELECT yr, subject, winner FROM nobel 
WHERE subject = 'Chemistry' and yr = 1984

9. Show the year, subject, and name of winners for 1980 excluding Chemistry and Medicine

SELECT yr, subject, winner FROM nobel
WHERE yr = 1980 and subject NOT IN ('Chemistry','Medicine')

10. Show year, subject, and name of people who won a ‘Medicine’ prize in an early year (before 1910, not including 1910) together with winners of a ‘Literature’ prize in a later year (after 2004, including 2004)

SELECT yr, subject, winner FROM nobel
WHERE subject = 'Medicine' and yr < 1910
UNION 
SELECT yr, subject, winner FROM nobel
WHERE subject = 'Literature' and yr >= 2004

11. Find all details of the prize won by PETER GRÜNBERG

SELECT * FROM nobel WHERE winner = 'PETER GRÜNBERG'

12. Find all details of the prize won by EUGENE O’NEILL

SELECT * FROM nobel WHERE winner = 'EUGENE O\'NEILL'

13. List the winners, year and subject where the winner starts with Sir. Show the the most recent first, then by name order.

SELECT winner, yr, subject FROM nobel WHERE winner LIKE 'Sir%'
ORDER BY yr DESC, winner ASC

14. The expression subject IN (‘Chemistry’,‘Physics’) can be used as a value - it will be 0 or 1.

SELECT winner, subject
FROM nobel
WHERE yr=1984
ORDER BY  subject IN ('Physics','Chemistry'), subject, winner