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: Step 1: For each row in airports table, find the corresponding rows in routes table.
Step 2: only keep the results of step 1 whose country equals China.
Step 3: find the number of rows of each value of src_apid in the results of step 2.
Step 4: find country of the results of step 2 with largest value in the results of step 3

SOLUTION: SELECT T2.country FROM routes AS T1 JOIN airports AS T2 ON T1.dst_apid = T2.apid WHERE T2.country = "China" GROUP BY T1.src_apid ORDER BY Count ( * ) Desc LIMIT 1

PROBLEM: find the eid, salary of employee table

SOLUTION: SELECT eid , salary FROM employee

PROBLEM: Step 1: For each row in station_company table, find corresponding rows in company table and in gas_station table.
Step 2: find Location, Representative_Name of the results of step 1 ordered descending by Market_Value.
Step 3: only show the first 3 rows of the results

SOLUTION:
SELECT T2.Location , T2.Representative_Name FROM company AS T1 JOIN gas_station AS T2 JOIN station_company AS T3 ON T1.Company_ID = T3.Company_ID AND T3.Station_ID = T2.Station_ID ORDER BY T1.Market_Value Desc LIMIT 3