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SQL | Archived exercise | Create table of actors and directors born in 1969
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| Software ==> | SQL (192 exercises) |
| Version ==> | Any version of SQL Server |
| Topic ==> | Archived (70 exercises) |
| Level ==> | Average difficulty |
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The aim of this exercise is to create a temporary table of all of the actors and directors born in 1969:
The flower children in date of birth order - 10 actors, but only 1 director
To do this, first create a command to select all of the actors born in 1969 into a new temporary table.
Be careful! Because you're soon going to be adding the directors to this temporary table, check that you cast the actor name column to a data type compatible with the director's name.
Now add a command to insert all of the directors born in 1969 into the temporary table.
Display the contents of the temporary table - it should look as shown at the start of this exercise.
Thought for the day - you could have solved this problem using a UNION ALL query (take a look at the answer to this exercise if you've never created a union query). Which method do you prefer?
Save the query to create and display the temporary table as Flower children, then close it down.