week 07 - day 04 - part 1 - Welcome to SQL -

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Every application uses data in some way. This will help you set up your development environment as well as get used to querying databases.

Objectives

• Install Postgres
• Create a database for Employees
• Write some queries to use the database

Requirements

• Set up postgres by following these directions.

Explorer Mode

• [x] Install Postgres

• [x] Create a database: company_database

• [x] Create a table: employees

• [x] Add the following columns to the table, Use your best judgement for data types

  • full_name
  • salary
  • job_position
  • phone_extension
  • part_time

• [x] Create queries that can do the following:

  • [x] Select all columns for all employees
  • [x] Select only the Full Name and Phone Extension for only Full-Time employees
  • [x] Insert a new part-time employee, as a software developer, part-time, with a salary of 450
  • [x] Update all employees that are the cooks to have a salary of 500
  • [x] Delete all employees that have the full name of "Lazy Lynn"
  • [x] Update all employees to be a full time
  • [x] Add a column to the table: parking_spot_number as a string that up to 10 characters long

• [ ] Turn in the above queries as a gist

Epic Mode

• [ ] Investigate working with C# and Postgres, HINT: entity framework core
• LINQ Notes
• EF Core notes

Additional Resources

• PostgreSQL Documentation
• SQL Notes
• Join Notes

Recommended Practice:

• For more practice, Hackerrank has a SQL Track

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