Display a list of all instructors, showing their ID, name, and the number of sections that they have taught. Make sure to show the number of sections as 0 for instructors who have not taught any section. Your query should use an outerjoin, and should not use scalar subqueries.
b) Write the same query as above, but using a scalar subquery,without outerjoin.
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This is a practice problem that the book has no answer for and needed to see how these two problems are done so i can be prepared for a test next week. The both need to be written in structured query langauge.
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Im am running oracle.
Here is what i have for the first query:select ID, name,
from instructor natural left
outer join section
where sec_id >= 0.
a) To display a list of all instructors, showing their ID, name, and the number of sections they have taught, you can use an outer join. An outer join ensures that instructors who have not taught any sections will also be included in the result set, with the number of sections displayed as 0.
Here is an example query to achieve this in SQL:
```
SELECT instructors.id, instructors.name, COUNT(sections.id) AS number_of_sections
FROM instructors LEFT JOIN sections ON instructors.id = sections.instructor_id
GROUP BY instructors.id, instructors.name;
```
In this query, we select the instructor ID, name, and use the COUNT function to calculate the number of sections they have taught. We perform a LEFT JOIN between the "instructors" and "sections" tables using the common column "instructor_id". This ensures that all instructors, even those who have not taught any sections, are included in the result set. We then group the results by instructor ID and name.
b) To write the same query without using an outer join and instead using a scalar subquery, you can use a subquery to calculate the number of sections for each instructor separately.
Here is an example query to achieve this in SQL:
```
SELECT instructors.id, instructors.name,
(SELECT COUNT(sections.id) FROM sections WHERE sections.instructor_id = instructors.id) AS number_of_sections
FROM instructors;
```
In this query, we select the instructor ID and name from the "instructors" table. Then, for each instructor, we use a subquery to calculate the number of sections they have taught. The subquery counts the number of sections in the "sections" table where the instructor ID matches the current instructor in the outer query. We give this count an alias "number_of_sections". The subquery is executed for each row in the outer query, resulting in the number of sections for each instructor being displayed.
As a start, you may want to display the sections so you can manually count how many there are for each instructor for comparing with later results.
I believe the out join syntax looks like this:
select ID, name, section from instructor outer join on instructor.section = courses.section;
You will have to experiment with the different parameters of the outer join clause to get exactly what you want.
Once this is done, you can remove the many printed lines using count() function to return the number of sections each instructor teaches.