#627
Easy Database Swap sex of employees
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Table: Salary
+-------------+----------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+----------+
| id | int |
| name | varchar |
| sex | ENUM |
| salary | int |
+-------------+----------+
id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
The sex column is ENUM (category) value of type ('m', 'f').
The table contains information about an employee.
Write a solution to swap all 'f' and 'm' values (i.e., change all 'f' values to 'm' and vice versa) with a single update statement and no intermediate temporary tables.
Note that you must write a single update statement, do not write any select statement for this problem.
The result format is in the following example.
Solution
SQL
#
# Table: Salary
# +-------------+----------+
# | Column Name | Type |
# +-------------+----------+
# | id | int |
# | name | varchar |
# | sex | ENUM |
# | salary | int |
# +-------------+----------+
# id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
# The sex column is ENUM (category) value of type ('m', 'f').
# The table contains information about an employee.
# Write a solution to swap all 'f' and 'm' values (i.e., change all 'f' values to 'm' and vice versa) with a single update statement and no intermediate temporary tables.
# Note that you must write a single update statement, do not write any select statement for this problem.
# The result format is in the following example.
# Example 1:
# Input:
# Salary table:
# +----+------+-----+--------+
# | id | name | sex | salary |
# +----+------+-----+--------+
# | 1 | A | m | 2500 |
# | 2 | B | f | 1500 |
# | 3 | C | m | 5500 |
# | 4 | D | f | 500 |
# +----+------+-----+--------+
# Output:
# +----+------+-----+--------+
# | id | name | sex | salary |
# +----+------+-----+--------+
# | 1 | A | f | 2500 |
# | 2 | B | m | 1500 |
# | 3 | C | f | 5500 |
# | 4 | D | m | 500 |
# +----+------+-----+--------+
# Explanation:
# (1, A) and (3, C) were changed from 'm' to 'f'.
# (2, B) and (4, D) were changed from 'f' to 'm'.
#
# Write your MySQL query statement below
UPDATE Salary
SET sex = CASE WHEN sex = 'm' THEN 'f' ELSE 'm' END;