Average Salaries Per Department

# Introduction In this project, you will learn how to calculate the average salary for each department in a database and display the results in descending order using SQL queries. ## 👀 Preview ```mysql MariaDB [edusys]> SOURCE ~/project/singleTableQuery.sql +------------+--------------+ | dept_name | avg_salary | +------------+--------------+ | Physics | 91000.000000 | | Finance | 85000.000000 | | Elec. Eng. | 80000.000000 | | Comp. Sci. | 77333.333333 | | Biology | 72000.000000 | | History | 61000.000000 | | Music | 40000.000000 | +------------+--------------+ 7 rows in set (0.001 sec) ``` ## 🎯 Tasks In this project, you will learn: - How to start the MySQL server and import a database - How to write an SQL query to group data by department and calculate the average salary - How to order the results in descending order based on the average salary ## 🏆 Achievements After completing this project, you will be able to: - Understand how to use SQL's `SELECT`, `FROM`, `WHERE`, `GROUP BY`, and `ORDER BY` clauses to perform data analysis - Implement a SQL query to calculate and display the average salaries per department in descending order - Apply your SQL knowledge to solve real-world data analysis problems

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