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CASE statements comparing two column values part 2

Similar to the previous exercise, you will construct a query to determine the outcome of Barcelona's matches where they played as the away team. You will learn how to combine these two queries in chapters 2 and 3.

Did their performance differ from the matches where they were the home team?

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“Data Manipulation in SQL”

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Exercise instructions

  • Complete the CASE statement to identify Barcelona's away team games (id = 8634) as wins, losses, or ties.
  • Left join the teams_spain table team_api_id column on the matches_spain table hometeam_id column. This retrieves the identity of the home team opponent.
  • Filter the query to only include matches where Barcelona was the away team.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

-- Select matches where Barcelona was the away team
SELECT  
	m.date,
	t.team_long_name AS opponent,
	___ ___ ___ < ___ ___ 'Barcelona win!'
        WHEN ___ > ___ ___ 'Barcelona loss :(' 
        ___ 'Tie' ___ ___ outcome
FROM matches_spain AS m
-- Join teams_spain to matches_spain
LEFT JOIN teams_spain AS t 
ON m.___ = t.___
WHERE m.___ = ___;
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