MySQL Create Table Exercises: Create a table jobs, and check one of it column max_salary amount exceeding the upper limit 25000

MySQL Create Tables: Exercise-6 with Solution

6. Write a SQL statement to create a table named jobs including columns job_id, job_title, min_salary, max_salary and check whether the max_salary amount exceeding the upper limit 25000.

Sample Solution:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS jobs ( 
JOB_ID varchar(10) NOT NULL , 
JOB_TITLE varchar(35) NOT NULL, 
MIN_SALARY decimal(6,0), 
MAX_SALARY decimal(6,0) 
CHECK(MAX_SALARY<=25000)
);

Let execute the above code in MySQL 5.6 command prompt

Here is the structure of the table:

mysql> DESC jobs;
+------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field      | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| JOB_ID     | varchar(10)  | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| JOB_TITLE  | varchar(35)  | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| MIN_SALARY | decimal(6,0) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| MAX_SALARY | decimal(6,0) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
4 rows in set (0.16 sec)

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