CS 272 Software Development

CS 272-01, CS 272-02 • Spring 2022

SQL Demo: Selecting Data

We will work up to the primary table we want. Lets start with something a little bit less complex first. When working on these, keep in mind there are many ways to write equivalent SELECT statements, so your solution may be different from the one given.

Twitter Table

See if you can re-create the following table with a SELECT statement:

name twitter
Greg Benson @gregorydbenson
David Brizan @davidguybrizan
Sophie Engle @sjengle
Alark Joshi @alark
Matthew Malensek @MatthewMalensek
Sami Rollins @samirollins
David Wolber @wolberd
Beste Yuksel @BesteFYuksel
See Answer.
SELECT
CONCAT(first, ' ', last) AS 'name',
CONCAT('@', twitterid) AS 'twitter'
FROM faculty_names
NATURAL JOIN faculty_twitter
ORDER BY faculty_names.last;


Courses Table

Next, lets see if we can create a list of courses and who teaches them. It is easier to start by just counting the number of people that teach each course:

course professors
CS 107 3
CS 110 4
CS 112 6
CS 220 1
CS 221 2
CS 245 3
CS 272 3
CS 315 2
CS 326 2
CS 336 1
CS 345 1
CS 360 2
CS 462 1
CS 463 1
CS 490 3
See Answer.
SELECT
course,
COUNT(DISTINCT(usfid)) AS 'professors'
FROM faculty_courses
NATURAL LEFT OUTER JOIN faculty_names
GROUP BY course
ORDER BY course, last;


Now, we can move to the full table:

course professors
CS 107 Jeffrey Johnson, David Wolber, Beste Yuksel
CS 110 Jeffrey Johnson, Alark Joshi, David Wolber, Beste Yuksel
CS 112 Kristin Jones, Alark Joshi, EJ Jung, Olga Karpenko, Sami Rollins, David Wolber
CS 220 Matthew Malensek
CS 221 Phil Peterson, Vahab Pournaghshband
CS 245 David Brizan, EJ Jung, Olga Karpenko
CS 272 Sophie Engle, Olga Karpenko, Sami Rollins
CS 315 Greg Benson, Phil Peterson
CS 326 Greg Benson, Matthew Malensek
CS 336 Vahab Pournaghshband
CS 345 Kristin Jones
CS 360 Sophie Engle, Alark Joshi
CS 462 Christopher Brooks
CS 463 David Brizan
CS 490 Jeffrey Johnson, Olga Karpenko, Beste Yuksel
See Answer.
SELECT
course,
GROUP_CONCAT(
  CONCAT(first, ' ', last)
  ORDER BY last
  SEPARATOR ', '
) AS 'professors'
FROM faculty_courses
NATURAL LEFT OUTER JOIN faculty_names
GROUP BY course
ORDER BY course, last;


Faculty Table

Next, we can try and combine everything together. As before, I suggest you first work on a query that just gives counts:

name email twitter courses
Greg Benson benson@usfca.edu 1 2
David Guy Brizan dgbrizan@usfca.edu 1 2
Christopher Brooks cbrooks@usfca.edu 0 1
Sophie Engle sjengle@usfca.edu 1 2
Jeffrey Johnson jajohnson9@usfca.edu 0 3
Kristin Jones kjones12@usfca.edu 0 2
Alark Joshi apjoshi@usfca.edu 1 3
EJ Jung ejung2@usfca.edu 0 2
Olga Karpenko okarpenko@usfca.edu 0 4
Matthew Malensek mmalensek@usfca.edu 1 2
Phil Peterson phpeterson@usfca.edu 0 2
Vahab Pournaghshband vpournaghshband@usfca.edu 0 2
Sami Rollins snrollins@usfca.edu 1 2
David Wolber wolberd@usfca.edu 1 3
Beste Yuksel byuksel@usfca.edu 1 3
See Answer.
SELECT
CONCAT(first, ' ', IFNULL(CONCAT(middle, ' '), ''), last) AS 'name',
CONCAT(usfid, '@usfca.edu') AS 'email',
COUNT(DISTINCT(twitterid)) AS 'twitter',
COUNT(DISTINCT(course)) AS 'courses'
FROM faculty_names
NATURAL LEFT OUTER JOIN faculty_twitter
NATURAL LEFT OUTER JOIN faculty_courses
GROUP BY faculty_names.usfid
ORDER BY faculty_names.last;


Now, we can work on creating the final version of our output:

name email twitter courses
Greg Benson benson@usfca.edu @gregorydbenson CS 315, CS 326
David Guy Brizan dgbrizan@usfca.edu @davidguybrizan CS 245, CS 463
Christopher Brooks cbrooks@usfca.edu   CS 462
Sophie Engle sjengle@usfca.edu @sjengle CS 272, CS 360
Jeffrey Johnson jajohnson9@usfca.edu   CS 107, CS 110, CS 490
Kristin Jones kjones12@usfca.edu   CS 112, CS 345
Alark Joshi apjoshi@usfca.edu @alark CS 110, CS 112, CS 360
EJ Jung ejung2@usfca.edu   CS 112, CS 245
Olga Karpenko okarpenko@usfca.edu   CS 112, CS 245, CS 272, CS 490
Matthew Malensek mmalensek@usfca.edu @MatthewMalensek CS 220, CS 326
Phil Peterson phpeterson@usfca.edu   CS 221, CS 315
Vahab Pournaghshband vpournaghshband@usfca.edu   CS 221, CS 336
Sami Rollins snrollins@usfca.edu @samirollins CS 112, CS 272
David Wolber wolberd@usfca.edu @wolberd CS 107, CS 110, CS 112
Beste Yuksel byuksel@usfca.edu @BesteFYuksel CS 107, CS 110, CS 490
See Answer.
SELECT
CONCAT(first, ' ', IFNULL(CONCAT(middle, ' '), ''), last) AS 'name',
CONCAT(usfid, '@usfca.edu') AS 'email',
IFNULL(CONCAT('@', twitterid), '') AS 'twitter',
GROUP_CONCAT(course ORDER BY course SEPARATOR ', ') AS 'courses'
FROM faculty_names
NATURAL LEFT OUTER JOIN faculty_twitter
NATURAL LEFT OUTER JOIN faculty_courses
GROUP BY faculty_names.usfid
ORDER BY faculty_names.last;