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I need a help in writing a simple SQL for the following requirement. Below is the table design:
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I am an IT professional with more than 15 Give the list of employees only if they have all the skills specified. For example: Emp 1 has Skill1,
years of experience in variety of Skill2, Skill4 & Emp2 has Skill1, Skill2, Skill3 skills. If we pass Skill1, Skill2, Skill3 as input, only Emp2
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INNER JOIN @ListOfSkills LS ON S.SkillName = LS.SkillName

GROUP BY E.EmpID, E.Name

HAVING COUNT(S.SkillID) = (select count(*) from @ListOfSkills)

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Edited by Naomi N Moderator Wednesday, May 28, 2014 5:13 PM

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This is a typical relational division problem.

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Sign in select E.* from Employee E inner join EmployeeSkills ES ON E.EmpID = ES.EmpID INNER JOIN Skills
to vote S ON ES.SkillID = S.SkillID

INNER JOIN @ListOfSkills LS ON S.SkillName = LS.SkillName

GROUP BY E.EmpID, E.Name

HAVING COUNT(S.SkillID) = (select count(*) from @ListOfSkills)

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to vote select E.* from Employee E inner join EmployeeSkills ES ON E.EmpID = ES.EmpID INNER JOIN
Skills S ON ES.SkillID = S.SkillID

INNER JOIN @ListOfSkills LS ON S.SkillName = LS.SkillName

GROUP BY E.EmpID, E.Name

HAVING COUNT(S.SkillID) = (select count(*) from @ListOfSkills)

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why joining with skill name? why not this

Select E.* from @employee E

JOIN
@EmployeeSkills ES
ON ES.EmpID=e.EmpID
JOIN
@skill s
ON S.skillID=E.EmpID
group by e.EmpID,e.Name
HAVING COUNT(ES.skillID)=(sELECT COUNT(*) FROM @skill)

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Reply | Quote Murali dhar 885 Points

Because I assumed we're passing Skill Names, not IDs from the interface. If we passed Ids, then we
don't need to join with the Skills table.

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Doing a raw count of kills/employee doesn't account for data integrity problems in the database.
Say Empl2 has two records in the EmployeeSkills table for Skill1, and raw count would yield 4 and
Emp2 wouldn't be returned. Sure that problem could be resolved by adding a count(distinct
SkillID) but I believe there's a better way to solve the problem:
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declare @Employee table (EmpID int, Name varchar(100))
to vote declare @Skill table (SkillID int, SkillName varchar(100))
declare @EmployeeSkills table (EmpID int, SkillID int)

insert @Employee values (1, 'Fred'), (2, 'Jeff')

insert @Skill values (1, 'Skill1'), (2, 'Skill2'), (3, 'Skill3'), (4, 'Skill4')
insert @EmployeeSkills values (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 4), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3)

declare @SkillList table (SkillID int)

insert @SkillList values (1), (2), (3)

;with MissingSkills
as
(
select distinct
es.EmpID
from @SkillList as l
right join @EmployeeSkills as es
on l.SkillID = es.SkillID
where l.SkillID is null
)
select e.*
from @Employee as e
left join MissingSkills as m
on m.EmpID = e.EmpID
where m.EmpID is null

When I say better, I'm talking about accuracy. Performance might be a different story.

Edited by Ed at Hammar Technology Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:56 PM

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Reply | Quote Ed at Hammar Technology Hammar Technology, LLC 1,600 Points

Try this one

declare @SkillList table (SkillID int)

insert @SkillList values (1), (2),(3)

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select emp.EmpID from
to vote Skill sk join EmployeeSkills emp
on sk.SkillID = emp.SkillID
where emp.SkillID in (select SkillID from @SkillList) group by emp.EmpID having count(*) = (select COUNT

Thanks. BalaKrishnan

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Hi,

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178543.aspx

Use the ALL in your query.

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