SQL Subqueries exercises on soccer Database: Find the match no. and teams who played the match where highest number of penalty shots had been taken

SQL soccer Database: Subqueries Exercise-28 with Solution

From the following table, write a SQL query to find the match number where highest number of penalty shots had been taken. Return match number, country name.

Sample table: penalty_shootout

Sample Solution:

SQL Code:

SELECT b.match_no,
       a.country_name
FROM penalty_shootout b,
     soccer_country a
WHERE b.team_id=a.country_id
  AND match_no=
    (SELECT match_no
     FROM penalty_shootout
     GROUP BY match_no
     HAVING COUNT(*)=
       (SELECT MAX(shots)
        FROM
          (SELECT COUNT(*) shots
           FROM penalty_shootout
           GROUP BY match_no) inner_result))
GROUP BY b.match_no,
         a.country_name;

Sample Output:

 match_no | country_name
----------+--------------
       47 | Germany
       47 | Italy
(2 rows)

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Sample Database: soccer

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