MySQL Update Table Statement Exercises: Change the email column of employees table with 'not available' for those who are in 'Accounting' department

MySQL Update Table Statement: Exercise-5 with Solution

Write a SQL statement to change the email column of employees table with 'not available' for those employees who belongs to the 'Accounting' department.

Here is the sample table employees.

Here is the sample table departments.

UPDATE employees 
SET email='not available'
WHERE department_id=(
SELECT department_id 
FROM departments 
WHERE department_name='Accounting');

Let execute the above code in MySQL 5.6 command prompt

See the result. Only the effected rows have been displayed.

+-------------+------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+
| EMPLOYEE_ID | FIRST_NAME | LAST_NAME | EMAIL         | PHONE_NUMBER | HIRE_DATE  | JOB_ID     | SALARY   | COMMISSION_PCT | MANAGER_ID | DEPARTMENT_ID |
+-------------+------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+
|         205 | Shelley    | Higgins   | not available | 515.123.8080 | 1987-09-30 | AC_MGR     | 12000.00 |           0.00 |        101 |           110 |
|         206 | William    | Gietz     | not available | 515.123.8181 | 1987-10-01 | AC_ACCOUNT |  8300.00 |           0.00 |        205 |           110 |
+-------------+------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+------------+------------+----------+----------------+------------+---------------+

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