SQL exercises on movie Database: Find the highest-rated Mystery movie, and report the title, year, and rating

SQL movie Database: Join Exercise-22 with Solution

22. From the following tables, write a SQL query to find the highest-rated ‘Mystery Movies’. Return the title, year, and rating.

Sample table: movie

Sample table: genres

Sample table: movie_genres

Sample table: rating

Sample Solution:

SELECT mov_title, mov_year, rev_stars
FROM movie 
NATURAL JOIN movie_genres 
NATURAL JOIN genres 
NATURAL JOIN rating
WHERE gen_title = 'Mystery' AND rev_stars >= ALL (
SELECT rev_stars
FROM rating 
NATURAL JOIN movie_genres 
NATURAL JOIN genres
WHERE gen_title = 'Mystery');

Sample Output:

                     mov_title                      | mov_year | rev_stars
----------------------------------------------------+----------+-----------
 Vertigo                                            |     1958 |      8.40
(1 row)

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Previous: From the following tables, write a SQL query to find the highest-rated movies. Return movie title, movie year, review stars and releasing country.
Next: From the following tables, write a SQL query to find the years when most of the ‘Mystery Movies’ produced. Count the number of generic title and compute their average rating. Group the result set on movie release year, generic title. Return movie year, generic title, number of generic title and average rating.