SQL exercises on movie Database: Find the name of movie and director who directed a movie that casted a role as Sean Maguire

SQL movie Database: Join Exercise-4 with Solution

4. From the following tables, write a SQL query to find who directed a movie that casted a role as ‘Sean Maguire’. Return director first name, last name and movie title.

Sample table: director

Sample table: movie_direction

Sample table: movie_cast

Sample table: movie

Sample Solution:

SELECT dir_fname, dir_lname, mov_title
FROM  director 
JOIN movie_direction 
  ON director.dir_id=movie_direction.dir_id
JOIN movie 
  ON movie_direction.mov_id=movie.mov_id
JOIN movie_cast 
  ON movie_cast.mov_id=movie.mov_id
  WHERE role='Sean Maguire';

OR

SELECT dir_fname, dir_lname, mov_title
FROM  director, movie_direction, movie, movie_cast
WHERE director.dir_id=movie_direction.dir_id
AND movie_direction.mov_id=movie.mov_id
AND movie.mov_id=movie_cast.mov_id
AND movie_cast.role='Sean Maguire';

Sample Output:

      dir_fname       |      dir_lname       |                     mov_title
----------------------+----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
 Gus                  | Van Sant             | Good Will Hunting
(1 row)

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