MySQL Subquery Exercises: Find the name and salary of the employees who have a higher salary than the employee whose last_name='Bull'

MySQL Subquery: Exercise-1 with Solution

Write a query to find the name (first_name, last_name) and the salary of the employees who have a higher salary than the employee whose last_name='Bull'.

Sample table: employees

Code:

SELECT FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, SALARY 
FROM employees 
WHERE SALARY > 
(SELECT salary FROM employees WHERE last_name = 'Bull');

Explanation :

MySQL Subquery Syntax :

- The subquery (inner query) executes once before the main query (outer query) executes.
- The main query (outer query) use the subquery result.

Here the where comparison operator uses the '>' operator.

MySQL Code Editor:

Structure of 'hr' database:

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