TASK DEFINITION: In this task you are expected to provide an SQL statement from an english description of what that SQL statement does. The description may include multiple steps but you should only ouput one SQL statement that accomplishes every step. An SQL query works by selecting data from a table where certain conditions apply. A table contains columns where every row in that table must have a value for each column. Every table has a primary key that uniquely identifies each row, usually an id. To choose which columns are returned you specify that after the "SELECT" statement. Next, you use a "FROM" statement to specify what tables you want to select the data from. When you specify a table you can rename it with the "AS" statement. You can reference that table by whatever name follows the "AS" statement. If you want to select data from multiple tables you need to use the "JOIN" statement. This will join the tables together by pairing a row in one table with every row in the other table (Cartesian Product). To limit the number of rows returned you should use the "ON" statement. This will only return rows where the condition specified after the statement is true, this is usually an equals operator with primary keys. You can also use the "WHERE" statement to specify that only rows with column values statisfying a certain condition, should be returned. The "GROUP BY" statement will group rows together that have equal column values for whatever columns follows the statement. The "HAVING" statement will return groups that statisfy whatever condition follows the statement. Any column(s) being returned from grouped rows must either be an aggregate function, (AVG, MAX, COUNT, SUM, ...) of a column, or the column(s) that the data was grouped by. To sort the returned data you can use the "ORDER BY" command which will order the data by whatever aggregate function or column follows the statement. The "DESC" statement will sort in descending order and the "ASC" statement will sort in ascending order. Finally, you can use the "LIMIT" statement to return a certain number of rows. When "*" is used in an SQL statement every column is returned. For example, SELECT * FROM table WHERE attribute = 1, will select every column from rows with the attribute column equal to 1.
PROBLEM: find without repetition the invoice_details of Invoices table for which invoice_date greater than or equals 1989-09-03

SOLUTION: SELECT DISTINCT invoice_details FROM Invoices WHERE invoice_date > = "1989-09-03"

PROBLEM: Step 1: For each row in Ref_Product_Categories table, find the corresponding rows in Products table.
Step 2: find the number of rows in the results of step 1 whose Products's product_category_code equals Spices and product_category_description greater than 1000

SOLUTION: SELECT Count ( * ) FROM Ref_Product_Categories AS T1 JOIN Products AS T2 ON T1.product_category_code = T2.product_category_code WHERE T2.product_category_code = "Spices" AND T1.product_category_description > 1000

PROBLEM: find the Party of people table with largest value of Age

SOLUTION:
SELECT Party FROM people ORDER BY Age Desc LIMIT 1