SQL Joins exercises on soccer Database: Find the players who booked most number of times

SQL soccer Database: Joins Exercise-42 with Solution

42. From the following tables, write a SQL query to count the players who booked the most number of times. Return player name, number of players who booked most number of times.

Sample table: soccer_country

Sample table: player_booked

Sample table: player_mast

Sample Solution:

SQL Code:

SELECT c.player_name,COUNT(b.*) Booked 
FROM soccer_country a
JOIN player_booked b ON a.country_id=b.team_id
JOIN player_mast c ON b.player_id=c.player_id
GROUP BY c.player_name
having COUNT(b.*)=(
SELECT MAX(mm) FROM (
SELECT COUNT(*) mm 
FROM player_booked 
GROUP BY player_id) inner_result);

Sample Output:

    player_name    | booked
-------------------+--------
 NGolo Kante       |      3
 William Carvalho  |      3
 Bartosz Kapustka  |      3
(3 rows)

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Sample Database: soccer

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