SELECT email, SUBSTR(email, 1, 2) || '****@oracle.com' AS masked_email FROM employees; Problem 9: Rank employees within each department by salary. Show rank, dense rank, and row number.
SELECT e.first_name, e.last_name, e.salary, e.department_id FROM employees e WHERE e.salary > (SELECT AVG(salary) FROM employees e2 WHERE e2.department_id = e.department_id) ORDER BY e.department_id, e.salary DESC; Problem 5: Fetch the top 5 highest paid employees, but show ties (i.e., if the 5th highest salary is shared by 3 people, show all of them).
WHERE TO_CHAR(hire_date, 'YYYY') = '2012'; Find all products in the oe.product_information table whose list price is between $50 and $200, but exclude products where the product name contains the word 'Monitor'.
SELECT product_id, product_name, list_price FROM oe.product_information WHERE list_price BETWEEN 50 AND 200 AND UPPER(product_name) NOT LIKE '%MONITOR%'; Problem 3: Show the department name, city, and the number of employees working in that department. Include departments with zero employees.
CREATE TABLE emp_analytics AS SELECT department_id, last_name, salary, RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY department_id ORDER BY salary DESC) AS salary_rank FROM employees; Oracle 12c SQL is robust, but the secret to passing hands-on assignments is understanding the subtle differences in windowing functions and the modern Top-N syntax . Always test your OFFSET/FETCH logic on a small subset first to verify sorting order.
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SELECT first_name, last_name, hire_date, TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE, hire_date) / 12) AS years, TRUNC(MOD(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE, hire_date), 12)) AS months, TRUNC(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE, hire_date) / 12) || ' years, ' || TRUNC(MOD(MONTHS_BETWEEN(SYSDATE, hire_date), 12)) || ' months' AS tenure FROM employees; Mask email addresses for a report (Show first 2 letters, then ' ** ', then the domain 'oracle.com').
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