We want to know which of our products actually the cheapest is.
SELECT min(price) FROM Products;
Result from DB: 2.5
What is the highest price for the products of the supplier with id = 12?
SELECT max(price) FROM Products WHERE SupplierID = 12;
Result from the DB: 123.79
What is the average price for products of supplier 3?
SELECT AVG(price) FROM Products WHERE SupplierID = 3;
Result from the db: 31.6667
How many orders do we currently have in our data-base system from the customer with id = 5?
SELECT count(customerID) FROM Orders where customerID = 5;
Result from the db: 3
What is the worth of the order 10255? Please note, that there are two tables involved in this select statement.
SELECT sum(price*quantity) FROM OrderDetails, Products WHERE orderDetails.OrderID = 10255 AND OrderDetails.ProductID = Products.ProductID;
Result from the db: 3115.75
For our anual report we need list of the orders, and the value of each, grouped by the OrderID.
SELECT OrderDetails.orderID, sum(price*quantity) FROM OrderDetails, Products WHERE OrderDetails.ProductID = Products.ProductID GROUP BY OrderDetails.orderid;
* Result from the db: