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Consider the following relational schema:

employee(empId,empName,empDept)

customer(custId,custName,salesRepId,rating)

salesRepId is a foreign key referring to empId of the employee relation. Assume that each employee makes a sale to at least one customer. What does the following query return?

SELECT empName   FROM employee E
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT custId
FROM customer C
WHERE C.salesRepId = E.empId
AND C.rating <> 'GOOD');  

(A) Names of all the employees with at least one of their customers having a ‘GOOD’ rating.

(B) Names of all the employees with at most one of their customers having a 'GOOD' rating.

(C) Names of all the employees with none of their customers having a 'GOOD' rating.

(D) Names of all the employees with all their customers having a 'GOOD' rating.

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So, an employee whose $ALL$ customers gives him GOOD rating is chosen;

All such employees are chosen.
ans = option D

answered by Veteran (26.8k points)
edited
Inner query will result all employees which has atleast one bad rating i.e. it will also include which has good as well as some bad rating

And outer query is asking for employees for which inner query return none .

So if any employee having both bad and good rating then they will not be part of outer query.

So answer is D
(D)

inner query selects "employees with atleast one bad rating"

so negation on the above stmt give -> "employees with all ratings as good"

PS:put a ven diagram and practice for these kind of questions
answered by Loyal (3.1k points)
kindly shows us your process of coming up with a venn diagram for this.

i think what he means is we can draw a two circles one inside other with inner one representing the literal meaning of inner query and outter one representing the outter query and then figure out the meaning of inner circle wrt to outter one, as the inner circle will be the literal answer.

in this context NOTEXISTS which will give something like A-B venn diag. with A as outter circle and B the inner one, but it marks " a Employee has to be GOOD to be BAD which is confusing "

T

Try applying quantification rules as above.

Ans(D)."every customer of given employee has given a good rating"

answered ago by (155 points)