MySQL Update Table Statement Exercises: Change salary of employee to 8000 whose ID is 105, if the existing salary is less than 5000

MySQL Update Table Statement: Exercise-6 with Solution

Write a SQL statement to change salary of employee to 8000 whose ID is 105, if the existing salary is less than 5000.

Here is the sample table employees.

UPDATE employees SET SALARY = 8000 WHERE employee_id = 105 AND salary < 5000;

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 |
+-------------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------+------------+---------+---------+----------------+------------+---------------+
|         105 | David      | Austin    | DAUSTIN | 590.423.4569 | 1987-06-22 | IT_PROG | 8000.00 |           0.00 |        103 |            60 |
+-------------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------+------------+---------+---------+----------------+------------+---------------+

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