Problems for You to Solve

Below, we show you the request statement and the name of the solution query in the sample databases. If you want some practice, you can work out the SQL for each request and then check your answer with the query we saved in the samples. Don’t worry if your syntax doesn’t exactly match the syntax of the queries we saved—as long as your result set is the same.

Sales Orders Database

1.“What if we adjusted each product price by reducing it 5 percent?”

You can find the solution in CH05_Adjusted_Wholesale_Prices (90 rows).

2.“Show me a list of orders made by each customer in descending date order.”

(Hint: You might need to order by more than one column for the information to display properly.)

You can find the solution in ...

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