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Unclefool
Messages: 65 Registered: August 2021
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I wrote a query that shows which teacher(s) are teaching the most number of students. This appears to be working fine but it appears to be verbose and clunky.
Can the query be rewritten to be succinct and easier to read?
Below is my test CASE and query. Thanks in advance to all who answer
CREATE TABLE teachers(teacher_id, first_name, last_name) AS
SELECT 101, 'Keith', 'Stein' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 102, 'Roger', 'Wood' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 103, 'Douglas', 'Kern' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 104, 'Paul', 'Weber' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 105, 'Jeffrey', 'Lebowitz' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 106, 'Gabby', 'Orr' FROM dual;
CREATE TABLE students(student_id, first_name, last_name) AS
SELECT 1, 'Faith', 'Aaron' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'Lisa', 'Saladino' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 'Leslee', 'Altman' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 'Patty', 'Kern' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 'Beth', 'Cooper' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 95, 'Zak', 'Despart' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 96, 'Owen', 'Balbert' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 97, 'Jack', 'Aprile' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 98, 'Nicole', 'Kramer' FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 99, 'Jill', 'Coralnick' FROM dual;
CREATE TABLE courses(course_id, course_name, teacher_id, semester) AS
SELECT 1, 'Geometry', 101, '2022-2' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'Trigonometry', 102, '2022-2' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 'Calculus', 103, '2022-2' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 'Chemistry', 104, '2022-2' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 'Biology', 105, '2022-2' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 6, 'Physcology', 106, '2022-2' FROM DUAL;
CREATE TABLE student_courses (student_id,course_id) AS
SELECT 1, 1 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 1 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 1 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 1 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 1 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 1, 2 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 2 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 2 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 2 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 2 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 1, 3 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 3 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 3 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 3 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 3 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 97, 1 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 97, 3 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 97, 5 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 97, 6 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 98, 3 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 98, 4 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 98, 5 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 99, 2 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 99, 4 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 99, 5 FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 99, 6 FROM dual;
WITH teacher_student_rankings AS (
SELECT
t.teacher_id
, t.teacher_name
, COUNT(DISTINCT sc.student_id) AS teacher_student_count
, RANK() OVER (ORDER BY COUNT(DISTINCT sc.student_id) DESC) AS teacher_student_rank
FROM teachers t
LEFT JOIN courses c
ON t.teacher_id = c.teacher_id
LEFT JOIN student_courses sc
ON c.course_id = sc.course_id
GROUP BY
t.teacher_id
, t.teacher_name
)
SELECT
teacher_id
, teacher_name
FROM teacher_student_rankings
WHERE teacher_student_rank = 1:
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