Question

Given a table salary, such as the one below, that has m=male and f=female values. Swap all f and m values (i.e., change all f values to m and vice versa) with a single update statement and no intermediate temp table.

Note that you must write a single update statement, DO NOT write any select statement for this problem.

Example:

| id | name | sex | salary |
|----|------|-----|--------|
| 1  | A    | m   | 2500   |
| 2  | B    | f   | 1500   |
| 3  | C    | m   | 5500   |
| 4  | D    | f   | 500    |

After running your update statement, the above salary table should have the following rows:

| id | name | sex | salary |
|----|------|-----|--------|
| 1  | A    | f   | 2500   |
| 2  | B    | m   | 1500   |
| 3  | C    | f   | 5500   |
| 4  | D    | m   | 500    |

SQL Schema

Create table if not exists salary(id int, name varchar(100), sex char(1), salary int)
Truncate table salary
insert into salary (id, name, sex, salary) values ('1', 'A', 'm', '2500')
insert into salary (id, name, sex, salary) values ('2', 'B', 'f', '1500')
insert into salary (id, name, sex, salary) values ('3', 'C', 'm', '5500')
insert into salary (id, name, sex, salary) values ('4', 'D', 'f', '500')

My Interesting Code

update salary
set sex = 
case
    when sex = 'm' then 'f'
    when sex = 'f' then 'm'
    else sex
    end

My Perspective

This question is simple, and you can use “update” and “case…when…” to address.

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