SQL exercises on employee Database: Check whether all the employees numbers are indeed unique

SQL employee Database: Exercise-103 with Solution

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103. From the following table, write a SQL query to check whether the employees ID are unique or not. Return employee id, number of employees.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT emp_id,
       count(*)
FROM employees
GROUP BY emp_id;

Sample Output:

 emp_id | count
--------+-------
  69324 |     1
  69062 |     1
  63679 |     1
  67858 |     1
  66564 |     1
  64989 |     1
  67832 |     1
  65646 |     1
  68319 |     1
  68454 |     1
  66928 |     1
  65271 |     1
  68736 |     1
  69000 |     1
(14 rows)

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