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Foundations Track · Easy · 15 min

Find Total Time Spent by Each Employee

Table: Employees +-------------+------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+------+ | emp_id | int | | event_day | date | | in_time | int | | out_time | in...

Foundations Track
Easy
15 min
aggregation

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Objective

Practice aggregation through a IshaSQL-tagged business scenario.

Approach

Use this track to lock in clean query structure, basic filtering logic, and confidence with grouped output.

Company context

Company labels are directional practice context, not official interview guidance.

Prereq: query basics
Prereq: filtering

Table: Employees +-------------+------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+------+ | emp_id | int | | event_day | date | | in_time | int | | out_time | int | +-------------+------+ (emp_id, event_day, in_time) is the primary key (combinations of columns with unique values) of this table. The table shows the employees' entries and exits in an office. event_day is the day at which this event happened, in_time is the minute at which the employee entered the office, and out_time is the minute at which they left the office. in_time and out_time are between 1 and 1440. It is guaranteed that no two events on the same day intersect in time, and in_time < out_time. Write a solution to calculate the total time in minutes spent by each employee on each day at the office. Note that within one day, an employee can enter and leave more than once. The time spent in the office for a single entry is out_time - in_time . Return the result table in any order . The result format is in the following example. Example 1: Input: Employees table: +--------+------------+---------+----------+ | emp_id | event_day | in_time | out_time | +--------+------------+---------+----------+ | 1 | 2020-11-28 | 4 | 32 | | 1 | 2020-11-28 | 55 | 200 | | 1 | 2020-12-03 | 1 | 42 | | 2 | 2020-11-28 | 3 | 33 | | 2 | 2020-12-09 | 47 | 74 | +--------+------------+---------+----------+ Output: +------------+--------+------------+ | day | emp_id | total_time | +------------+--------+------------+ | 2020-11-28 | 1 | 173 | | 2020-11-28 | 2 | 30 | | 2020-12-03 | 1 | 41 | | 2020-12-09 | 2 | 27 | +------------+--------+------------+ Explanation: Employee 1 has three events: two on day 2020-11-28 with a total of (32 - 4) + (200 - 55) = 173, and one on day 2020-12-03 with a total of (42 - 1) = 41. Employee 2 has two events: one on day 2020-11-28 with a total of (33 - 3) = 30, and one on day 2020-12-09 with a total of (74 - 47) = 27.

Employees
emp_id INT
event_day DATE
in_time INT
out_time INT
PRIMARY KEY (emp_id
event_day
in_time
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