SELECT from Nobel Tutorial

nobel

yr	subject	winner
1960	Chemistry	Willard F. Libby
1960	Literature	Saint-John Perse
1960	Medicine	Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1960	Medicine	Peter Medawar
...

nobel Nobel Laureates

We continue practicing simple SQL queries on a single table.

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

nobel(yr, subject, winner)

Exercises

Using the SELECT statement.

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

SELECT yr, subject, winner
  FROM nobel
 WHERE yr = 1960

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

Show who won the 1962 prize for Literature.

SELECT winner
  FROM nobel
 WHERE yr = 1960
   AND subject = 'Physics'

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

Show the year and subject that won 'Albert Einstein' his prize.

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

Give the name of the 'Peace' winners since the year 2000, including 2000.

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

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

Show all details of the presidential winners:

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Jimmy Carter

SELECT * FROM nobel
 WHERE yr = 1970
  AND subject IN ('Cookery',
                  'Chemistry',
                  'Literature')

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

Show the winners with first name John

SELECT winner FROM nobel
  WHERE winner LIKE 'John %'

Show the Physics winners for 1980 together with the Chemistry winners for 1984.

SELECT *
FROM nobel
WHERE (subject='physics' AND yr=1980) OR
      (subject='chemistry' AND yr=1984)

Show the winners for 1980 excluding the Chemistry and Medicine

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

Show 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 *
FROM nobel 
WHERE (subject='Medicine' and yr <1910) OR
      (subject='Literature' AND yr>=2004)

Nobel Quiz

Harder Questions

Find the prize won by PETER GRÜNBERG and EUGENE O'NEILL

SELECT *
FROM nobel 
WHERE winner in ('Peter Grünberg', 'Eugene O''Neill')

Nobel Quiz