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Author Diversity by Genre
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Author Diversity by Genre

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a query to print the author IDs of authors who wrote books in 5 or more genres.

Asked in the phone screen stage. Use the authors, books, and book_genres tables.

Output

  1. Return one row per qualifying author.
  2. Include one column named author_id.
  3. Include only authors associated with at least five distinct non-null genres.
  4. Sort results by author_id in ascending order.

Schema

authors
ColumnTypeDescription
author_idPKINTUnique identifier for an author
books
ColumnTypeDescription
book_idPKINTUnique identifier for a book
author_idINTAuthor who wrote the book
book_titleVARCHAR(200)Title of the book
book_genres
ColumnTypeDescription
book_idINTBook assigned to the genre
genre_nameVARCHAR(100)Genre assigned to the book
Tablesauthorsbooksbook_genres
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