Query the two cities in STATION with the shortest and longest CITY names, as well as their respective lengths (i.e.: number of characters in the name). If there is more than one smallest or largest city, choose the one that comes first when ordered alphabetically. The STATION table is described as follows:
Sample Input
For example, CITY has four entries: DEF, ABC, PQRS and WXY.
Sample Output
ABC 3PQRS 4Explanation
When ordered alphabetically, the CITY names are listed as ABC, DEF, PQRS, and WXY, with lengths and . The longest name is PQRS, but there are options for shortest named city. Choose ABC, because it comes first alphabetically.
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Answer
A little bit of analytic functions; sample data in lines #1 – 6; query begins at line #7.
SQL> with station (city) as 2 (select 'DEF' from dual union all 3 select 'ABC' from dual union all 4 select 'PQRS' from dual union all 5 select 'WXY' from dual 6 ) 7 select city, len 8 from (select city, 9 length(city) len, 10 rank() over (partition by length(city) order by city) rn 11 from station 12 ) 13 where rn = 1 14 order by city;CITY LEN---- ----------ABC 3PQRS 4SQL>Reading your comment, it seems you want something like this:
SQL> with station (city) as 2 (select 'DEF' from dual union all 3 select 'ABC' from dual union all 4 select 'PQRS' from dual union all 5 select 'WXY' from dual union all 6 select 'XX' from dual union all 7 select 'ABCDE' from dual 8 ) 9 select city, len 10 from (select city, 11 length(city) len, 12 rank() over (order by length(city) , city) rna, 13 rank() over (order by length(city) desc, city) rnd 14 from station 15 ) 16 where rna = 1 17 or rnd = 1 18 order by len, city;CITY LEN----- ----------XX 2ABCDE 5SQL>