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Which elective teacher is the most popular?
Using the WITH keyword
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Elective teachers query:
SELECT DISTINCT TEACHERS.ID, FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME
FROM TEACHERS
JOIN CLASSES ON TEACHERS.ID = CLASSES.TEACHER_ID
JOIN SUBJECTS ON CLASSES.SUBJECT_ID = SUBJECTS.ID
WHERE GRADE IS NULL;
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Bobby tables, I guess they'll have
to be having words with his parents.
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Any who,
getting back to the teacher questions,
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there's two more things the management
team would like to know.
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First, they'd like to know which
elective teacher is the most popular.
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So if you can find out
which elective teacher,
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teaches the most students,
that'd be awesome.
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Let's start, by figuring out which
teachers are the elective teachers.
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Luckily, we've already written this query.
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So it's in the teacher's notes
if you'd like to just copy and
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paste it in,
which is what I'm going to do.
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However, let's paste it in as
a common table expression.
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So, WITH,
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ELECTIVE TEACHERS AS And
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then I'm gonna tab this out.
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And then just to make sure it worked,
let's scroll down here and
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SELECT * FROM ELECTIVE_TEACHERS.
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Perfect, from here,
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we need to figure out which elective
teacher teaches the most students.
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So another intermediate step we can take,
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is to figure out how many students
each elective teacher teaches.
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So let's do that as another
common table expression.
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So, and
let's call it STUDENT_COUNTS and AS.
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And then here, let's start by selecting
everything FROM ELECTIVE_TEACHERS,
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and then to figure out, how many
students each elective teacher teaches,
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we'll just need to join through to
the classes table on the teacher ID.
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And then join from the classes
table to the schedule.
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Once we're to the schedule,
each row will represent a student.
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So we'll just need to count how many rows
there are for each elective teacher.
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So let start by joining
to the classes table.
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JOIN CLASSES ON, And remember,
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we're selecting the TEACHERS.ID, Up here,
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so we can join on ELECTIVE_TEACHERS.ID.
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Yep, and it'll be named ID.
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And this is going to = CLASSES.TEACHER_ID.
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And then we need to join
to the schedule table.
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So JOIN SCHEDULE ON CLASSES.ID
= SCHEDULE.CLASS_ID.
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And now that we got one row for
each student,
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we just need to group by the teachers.
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So GROUP BY ELECTIVE_TEACHERS.ID.
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And we need to select
the ELECTIVE_TEACHERS
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.ID as well as the COUNT.
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And let's put this FROM on a new line.
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And if we select start
from STUDENT_COUNTS,
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we should have the counts of how many
students go with each elective teacher.
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So let's try that.
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SELECT* FROM STUDENT_COUNTS.
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All right, looks good.
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But, the question was to figure out,
which one was teaching the most students?
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So again, let's come down here,
and let's SELECT the MAX
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of STUDENT_COUNTS.,
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and we wanna select the max of this
column, which we have an alias.
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So we're gonna need to do that.
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So let's come up here, and call it CT.
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And then down here,
we'll be able to select the max of CT.
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And we wanna select which teacher this is,
as well.
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So for that, we're going to need
to join to the teacher's table.
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But first, we need to say FROM,
and this is STUDENT_COUNTS,
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and let's put that from
on a new line actually.
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And then from student counts,
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JOIN to TEACHERS on
STUDENT_COUNTS.ID = TEACHERS.ID.
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And so, in addition to selecting
the MAX of the STUDENT_COUNTS,
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we also wanna select what teacher it is.
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So let's select the MAX and then,
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TEACHERS.FIRST_NAME, and
TEACHERS.LAST_NAME.
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And if we run this, it looks like Janice
Ambrose is the elective teacher teaching
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the most students.
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