HW2: SQL (I) (Total Points: 45)

Individual assignment

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Guidelines:
 Please note that this assignment contains 15 questions.
 You need to submit two files to this homework. One is your FINAL sql code (.sql), and
one is this word document with your answers. Please name your files
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docx), and submit your files to canvas (following appropriate hw submission link) by the
specified deadline.
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Objective
This exercise will enable you to demonstrate mastery of fundamental SQL queries on a
DBMS.

Instructions:
 Use MySQL workbench and connect to the course server. The database to use is
apps_and_crunchbase. The relevant schema (the apps schema) is provided as a separate
file along with this homework. Please make sure you execute the following statement
before writing your queries.
use apps_and_crunchbase;
 Develop the solution to each question, and paste the SQL query in the space provided
below each question. Please make sure you provide queries that would retrieve just
the information asked in the question, no more and no less. For example, if you are
asked how many apps, then your query should just return a number. For results
reporting, you may be asked to report only a subset of the entire returned results for some
questions (for example, report the first 5 rows); for some other questions, you may be
asked to report only the number of rows returned by your query. Please report as asked.

Background of the data:

App Store maintained a few top lists and published top 300 apps in each list every day a few
years ago. The top 300 apps in every list were collected every day and stored in sequence in
the top300 table that same day (insert_time). For example,
1~300: top 300 apps for list 1 on day 1
301~600: top 300 apps for list 2 on day 1
 601~900: top 300 apps for list 3 on day 1
So on and so forth

Relevant data of these apps were also collected and stored in the apps table.

I. Single Table Queries: Only the apps table is required

1. Retrieve all the attributes for app "Twitter"

Query:

select *
from apps
where name = 'Twitter';

Result:

2. Retrieve the name and price for the apps whose name contains the string "sun" (hint:
can begin with "sun", end with "sun", or have "sun" in the middle (e.g. Samsung)

Query:

Select name, price

from apps

where name like '%sun%';

Row Count:

280

3. Retrieve the number of apps whose seller url is not missing

Query:

select count(id)
from apps
where seller_url is not null;
Result:

72096

4. Retrieve the primary categories (don't show duplicates)

Query:

select distinct(category_primary)
from apps;

Row count: 22

5 Retrieve the min, average, max prices for the primary category ‘Finance’

Query:

Select min(price) as "Minimum Price", avg(price) as "Average price", max(price) as "Maximum

Price"

from apps

where category_primary = 'finance';

Result:

6. Show the distribution of the price of apps. In other words, list all of the prices with the
count of the apps at a given price. Please order your results by price in ascending
order. (Hint, you should have two columns in your result: price and count. If you are
interested in knowing the price structure of apps, you might want to read the first few
paragraphs of this article).

Query:

select distinct(price), count(id)

from apps

group by price

order by price;

Result: please copy the first 5 results from your result table which should have more than 5 rows

Row count: 82

7. What is the mean price among the paid apps for each primary category? List in
descending order of the mean price. Hint: Paid apps mean price >0. Please consider just
the primary category for each app. Please use the apps table.

Query:
select category_primary, avg(price)
from apps
where price > 0
group by category_primary
order by avg(price) desc;

Results: please copy the first 5 results here

Medical 11.309511
Business 10.393448
Navigation 7.250569
Finance 5.187545
Reference 4.830146

Row count returned:

8. Give a top 10 countdown of the most prolific app developers (list in decreasing order).
Specifically, please report the names of the developers that wrote the most apps and the
total number of apps they wrote. (Hint: Two columns, developer name, number of apps, in
decreasing order, only the top 10 please)

Query:

select (developer_name), count(id)

from apps

group by developer_name

order by count(id) desc

limit 10;

Result:

Libriance Inc 411

for-side.com 204
Feng 196
i-mobilize, inc. 192
SB Creative Corp. 191
Blackstone Audio, Inc 179
Tobit.Software 179
AppWarrior 164
Brentwick 144
FidesReef 140

9. Retrieve the developer id and name for the developers who developed apps in at least 10
primary categories;

Query:

Row count:
10. Are there apps with the same name? Please write a query to show names that are
shared by multiple apps and how many apps share each of these common names.

Query:

Row count:

II Multi-Table Queries

11. Retrieve the name of the app that has the highest number of ratings (i.e., rating_count)
and the number of ratings it received.

Query:

Result:

12. Retrieve the name and primary category for the apps that are game-center enabled and
whose primary category is not "Games" (use apps table).

Query:

Row count:

13. In which primary category, the apps have the highest mean
average_rating?

Query:

Result:

14. List the total number of ratings (rating_count) received for each primary category?
Please list them in descending order of the total number of ratings.
Query:

Results: (copy first 5 results)

15. List the primary category, number of ratings and average ratings for the app “Google
Earth”.

Query:

Result: