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Exercise #7 page 1

Get the models and prices for all commercially available products (of any type) produced by maker B.

The products in the database can be of three types: PCs, laptops, and printers. A natural way to solve this exercise is combining the three sets corresponding to each type of products. And here is the solution by one of our users:

Console
Execute
  1. SELECT model, price
  2. FROM PC
  3. WHERE model = (SELECT model
  4. FROM Product
  5. WHERE maker = 'B' AND
  6. type = 'PC'
  7. )
  8. UNION
  9. SELECT model, price
  10. FROM Laptop
  11. WHERE model = (SELECT model
  12. FROM Product
  13. WHERE maker = 'B' AND
  14. type = 'Laptop'
  15. )
  16. UNION
  17. SELECT model, price
  18. FROM Printer
  19. WHERE model = (SELECT model
  20. FROM Product
  21. WHERE maker = 'B' AND
  22. type = 'Printer'
  23. );

This query returns the correct result for the main database, but terminates with the following error message when run against the checking database:

Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.

In other words, we cannot compare a single value with the set that is returned if the maker B manufactures more than one model of any type - which is exactly the case for the checking database.


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