Give a list of all employees(fname, lname and dept) who make the least amount of money in their building, but only if they work in building 400, 402 or 405.

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What I have tried:

SELECT FNAME, LNAME, DEPT
FROM Employees
WHERE salary = (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM Employees WHERE BUILDING = 400 OR BUILDING = 402 OR BUILDING = 405);

ERROR:

Data type mismatch in criteria expression

How do I fix it?

Posted 13-Nov-18 19:07pm

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Updated 13-Nov-18 19:23pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2018-11-13T19:24:00

Start by looking at your data: at a guess, the BUILDING column contains non-numeric data.

If BUILDING is supposed to be numeric, then store it in a numeric field : INT is good. If it isn't, then use a string comparison:

SQL

... FROM Employees WHERE BUILDING = '400' OR BUILDING = '402' OR ...

Or

SQL

... FROM Employees WHERE BUILDING IN ('400', '402', '405'));