Problem
Table: Student
+-------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+---------+ | name | varchar | | continent | varchar | +-------------+---------+ This table may contain duplicate rows. Each row of this table indicates the name of a student and the continent they came from.
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A school has students from Asia, Europe, and America.
Write a solution to pivot the continent column in the Student
table so that each name is sorted alphabetically and displayed underneath its corresponding continent. The output headers should be America
, Asia
, and Europe
, respectively.
The test cases are generated so that the student number from America is not less than either Asia or Europe.
The result format is in the following example.
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Example 1:
Input: Student table: +--------+-----------+ | name | continent | +--------+-----------+ | Jane | America | | Pascal | Europe | | Xi | Asia | | Jack | America | +--------+-----------+ Output: +---------+------+--------+ | America | Asia | Europe | +---------+------+--------+ | Jack | Xi | Pascal | | Jane | null | null | +---------+------+--------+
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Follow up: If it is unknown which continent has the most students, could you write a solution to generate the student report?