Working with the modulo
Employees have different Titles. Some are Sales Support Agents and they are responsible for supporting clients with sales. Each Sales Support Agent gets assigned their own set of customers. The company has gone through a restructuring and now there is a new number of Sales Support Agents.
Your manager wants to know if she can equally divide customers amongst the new sales support team so that each agent has the same number of customers. In this exercise, you will answer this question using the MOD() and COUNT() functions.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Oracle SQL
Exercise instructions
- Use a function to find the remainder between to values.
- The first value should be the number of customers.
- The second value should be the number of employees who are
Sales Support Agents.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
-- Use a function to find the remainder
SELECT ___(___, ___) AS Modulo
-- Dividend: the number of customers
FROM (SELECT ___ AS numerator
FROM ___)
-- Divisor: the number of sales support agents
CROSS JOIN (SELECT ___ AS denominator
FROM ___
WHERE ___ = '___')