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SQL Query with Filtering and Sorting
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SQL Query with Filtering and Sorting

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Select all records from a table where a field is greater than a specified value, and sort the result set in ascending order.

Asked in the OA stage. First SQL question on the online assessment.

Output

  1. Return record_id, record_name, and metric_value for records where metric_value is greater than 50.
  2. Return one row per qualifying record, sorted by metric_value ascending, then record_id ascending to break ties.

Schema

records
ColumnTypeDescription
record_idPKINTUnique record identifier
record_nameVARCHAR(100)Record name
metric_valueINTNumeric field used for filtering and sorting
Tablesrecords
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