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| -- **Question 1** — List the title and published year of every book in the `'Science Fiction'` genre, ordered by published year (oldest first). | ||||||||||
| SELECT title , published_year FROM books | ||||||||||
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| -- **Question 2** — Show every book published before 1950. Display the title and year only. | ||||||||||
| SELECT title , published_year FROM books | ||||||||||
| WHERE published_year < 1950; | ||||||||||
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| -- **Question 3** — Show every book in the database along with its author's full name. Combine `first_name` and `last_name` into a single column called `author`. _(Hint: you will need a JOIN.)_ | ||||||||||
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| SELECT a.first_name || ' ' || a.last_name AS author, b.title, b.genre, b.published_year FROM authors a | ||||||||||
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| -- **Question 4** — List all books written by Stephen King. Show the title and published year, ordered by year. _(Hint: JOIN the two tables and filter on the author's name.)_ | ||||||||||
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| SELECT a.first_name || ' ' || a.last_name AS author, b.title, b.published_year FROM authors a | ||||||||||
| JOIN books b ON a.id = b.author_id | ||||||||||
| WHERE author = 'Stephen King' ORDER BY published_year DESC; | ||||||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. For better readability, place the ORDER BY clause on a new line.
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Note that Question 4 does not mention that the author's name should be shown. So the following SQL may be more appropriate: SELECT b.title, b.published_year FROM authors a
JOIN books b ON a.id = b.author_id
WHERE a.first_name = "Stephen" AND a.last_name = "King"
ORDER BY published_year DESC; |
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| -- **Question 5** — Add yourself as a new author. Use your real name, or make one up. Pick any nationality and birth year. | ||||||||||
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| INSERT INTO authors (first_name, last_name, nationality, birth_year) VALUES | ||||||||||
| ('Shadi', 'Abedinpour', 'Iranian', 1995); | ||||||||||
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| -- **Question 6** — Add one book for the author you just inserted. It can be a real book or a made-up one. | ||||||||||
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| INSERT INTO books (title, published_year,genre, author_id) VALUES | ||||||||||
| ('The Story of My Cats', 2023, 'Biography', | ||||||||||
| (SELECT id FROM authors WHERE first_name = 'Shadi' AND last_name = 'Abedinpour')); | ||||||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Excellent use of a SQL subquery. |
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| -- **Question 7** — The genre for "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger" was entered incorrectly as `'Fantasy'`. It should be `'Horror'`. Write an UPDATE to fix it, then verify the change with a SELECT. | ||||||||||
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| UPDATE books | ||||||||||
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| SELECT * FROM books WHERE title = 'The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger'; | ||||||||||
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| -- **Question 8** — Delete the book you added in Question 6. Make sure your query targets only that specific row. | ||||||||||
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| -- **Bonus A** — How many books are there per genre? Show the genre name and the count, ordered from most to fewest books. | ||||||||||
| SELECT genre, COUNT(*) AS book_count FROM books | ||||||||||
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| -- **Bonus B** — Find any authors in the database who have no books at all. _(Hint: you will need a LEFT JOIN and check for NULL.) | ||||||||||
| SELECT a.first_name || ' ' || a.last_name AS author FROM authors a | ||||||||||
| LEFT JOIN books b ON a.id = b.author_id | ||||||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. The full name is not required. So this alternative would also be fine: SELECT a.first_name, a.last_name FROM authors a
LEFT JOIN books b ON a.id = b.author_id
WHERE b.id IS NULL; |
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Unfortunately, this code doesn't work at all. The sqlite3 npm package is deprecated, see: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sqlite3. The This makes me wonder how you managed to create a populated |
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| const data = JSON.parse( | ||
| fs.readFileSync("./data/data.json", "utf-8") | ||
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| const db = new sqlite3.Database("./data/flashcards.db"); | ||
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| db.run("PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON"); | ||
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| data.decks.forEach((deck) => { | ||
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| `INSERT INTO decks (id, name, description) VALUES (?, ?, ?)`, | ||
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| data.cards.forEach((card) => { | ||
| db.run( | ||
| `INSERT INTO cards (id, question, answer, learned, deck_id) | ||
| VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)`, | ||
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| card.id, | ||
| card.question, | ||
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| card.learned ? 1 : 0, | ||
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The required terminating semicolon is missing.