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The Number of Seniors and Juniors to Join the Company

The Number of Seniors and Juniors to Join the Company: a SQL solution using relational aggregation. Learn the idea, check the complexity, and read the full code, with credit to walkccc LeetCode Solutions.

Technique
Relational aggregation
Source
walkccc LeetCode Solutions
Length
40 lines
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Approach

Relational aggregation

For The Number of Seniors and Juniors to Join the Company, the query transforms and combines relational rows, then filters or aggregates them into the requested result.

  1. Identify the source rows and join keys.
  2. Apply filters before aggregation when possible.
  3. Group, rank, or project the final columns required by the result.

Code notes

  • 40 lines of SQL from the credited upstream file 2004.sql.
  • The implementation keeps its working state in language-native values and containers.
  • No explicit loop blocks detected.

Complexity

Review join cardinality, grouping keys, and available indexes when estimating query cost.

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Source

Code and credit

This code comes from walkccc LeetCode Solutions by P.-Y. Chen (walkccc) and is used under the MIT licence.

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Full codeThe Number of Seniors and Juniors to Join the Company · SQLSQL
Use this to learn the idea, then write your own version.
WITH  AccumualtedCandidates AS (    SELECT      employee_id,      experience,      ROW_NUMBER() OVER(        PARTITION BY experience        ORDER BY salary, employee_id      ) AS candidate_count,      SUM(salary) OVER(        PARTITION BY experience        ORDER BY salary, employee_id      ) AS accumulated_salary    FROM Candidates  ),  MaxHiredSeniors AS (    SELECT      IFNULL(MAX(candidate_count), 0) AS accepted_candidates,      IFNULL(MAX(accumulated_salary), 0) AS accumulated_salary    FROM AccumualtedCandidates    WHERE      experience = 'Senior'      AND accumulated_salary < 70000  )SELECT  'Senior' AS experience,  accepted_candidatesFROM MaxHiredSeniorsUNION ALLSELECT  'Junior' AS experience,  COUNT(*) AS accepted_candidatesFROM AccumualtedCandidates AS JuniorsWHERE  experience = 'Junior'  AND Juniors.accumulated_salary < (    SELECT 70000 - MaxHiredSeniors.accumulated_salary    FROM MaxHiredSeniors  );

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