SQL – INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SQL AND MYSQL?

2. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT SUBSETS OF SQL?
3. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DBMS? WHAT ARE ITS DIFFERENT TYPES?
4. WHAT IS RDBMS? HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM DBMS?
5. WHAT IS A SELF-JOIN?
6. WHAT IS THE SELECT STATEMENT?
7. WHAT ARE SOME COMMON CLAUSES USED WITH SELECT QUERY IN SQL?
8. WHAT ARE UNION, MINUS AND INTERSECT COMMANDS?
9. WHAT IS CURSOR? HOW TO USE A CURSOR?
10. LIST THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS IN SQL.
11. WHAT IS OLTP?
12. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLTP AND OLAP?
13. HOW TO CREATE EMPTY TABLES WITH THE SAME STRUCTURE AS ANOTHER TABLE?
14. WHAT IS POSTGRESQL?
15. WHAT ARE SQL COMMENTS?
16. WHAT IS THE USAGE OF THE NVL() FUNCTION?
17. EXPLAIN CHARACTER-MANIPULATION FUNCTIONS? EXPLAINS ITS DIFFERENT TYPES IN SQL.
18. WRITE THE SQL QUERY TO GET THE THIRD MAXIMUM SALARY OF AN EMPLOYEE FROM A TABLE NAMED
EMPLOYEES.
19. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RANK() AND DENSE_RANK() FUNCTIONS?
20. WHAT ARE TABLES AND FIELDS?
21. WHAT IS A UNIQUE CONSTRAINT?
22. WHAT IS A SELF-JOIN?
23. WHAT IS THE SELECT STATEMENT?
24. WHAT ARE SOME COMMON CLAUSES USED WITH SELECT QUERY IN SQL?
25. WHAT ARE UNION, MINUS AND INTERSECT COMMANDS?
26. WHAT IS CURSOR? HOW TO USE A CURSOR?
27. LIST THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS IN SQL.
28. WHAT IS SQL EXAMPLE?
29. WHAT ARE BASIC SQL SKILLS?
30. WHAT IS SCHEMA IN SQL SERVER? HOW TO CREATE A TEMP TABLE IN SQL SERVER?
31. WHAT IS THE CASE WHEN IN SQL SERVER?
32. NOSQL VS SQL
33. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NOW() AND CURRENT_DATE()?
34. WHAT IS BLOB AND TEXT IN MYSQL?
35. HOW TO REMOVE DUPLICATE ROWS IN SQL?
36. HOW TO CREATE A STORED PROCEDURE USING SQL SERVER? WHAT IS DATABASE BLACK BOX TESTING?
37. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SQL SANDBOX?
38. HOW TO FIND THE NTH HIGHEST SALARY IN SQL?
39. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY TABLE AND FIELD IN SQL?Q45. WHAT ARE JOINS IN SQL?
40. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHAR AND VARCHAR2 DATATYPE IN SQL?
41. WHAT IS A PRIMARY KEY?
42. WHAT ARE CONSTRAINTS?
43. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DELETE AND TRUNCATE STATEMENTS?
44. WHAT IS A UNIQUE KEY?
45. WHAT IS A FOREIGN KEY IN SQL?
46. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DATA INTEGRITY?
47. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLUSTERED AND NON-CLUSTERED INDEX IN SQL?
48. WRITE A SQL QUERY TO DISPLAY THE CURRENT DATE?
49. WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY QUERY OPTIMIZATION?
50. WHAT ARE ENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS?
51. WHAT IS AN INDEX?
52. EXPLAIN DIFFERENT TYPES OF INDEX IN SQL.
53. WHAT IS NORMALIZATION AND WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF IT?
54. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DROP AND TRUNCATE COMMANDS?
55. EXPLAIN DIFFERENT TYPES OF NORMALIZATION.
56. WHAT IS OLTP?
57. HOW TO CREATE EMPTY TABLES WITH THE SAME STRUCTURE AS ANOTHER TABLE?
58. WHAT IS POSTGRESQL?
59. WHAT ARE SQL COMMENTS?
60. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RANK() AND DENSE_RANK() FUNCTIONS?
61. WHAT IS SQL INJECTION?
62. HOW MANY AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN SQL?
63. WHAT IS THE DEFAULT ORDERING OF DATA USING THE ORDER BY CLAUSE? HOW COULD IT BE CHANGED?
64. HOW DO WE USE THE DISTINCT STATEMENT? WHAT IS ITS USE?
65. WHAT ARE THE SYNTAX AND USE OF THE COALESCE FUNCTION?
66. WHAT IS THE ACID PROPERTY IN A DATABASE?
67. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY “TRIGGER” IN SQL?
68. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT OPERATORS AVAILABLE IN SQL?
69. ARE NULL VALUES SAME AS THAT OF ZERO OR A BLANK SPACE?
70. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CROSS JOIN AND NATURAL JOIN?
71. WHAT IS SUBQUERY IN SQL?
72. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF A SUBQUERY?
73. LIST THE WAYS TO GET THE COUNT OF RECORDS IN A TABLE?
74. WRITE A SQL QUERY TO FIND THE NAMES OF EMPLOYEES THAT BEGIN WITH ‘A’?
75. WRITE A SQL QUERY TO GET THE THIRD-HIGHEST SALARY OF AN EMPLOYEE FROM EMPLOYEE_TABLE?
76. WHAT IS THE NEED FOR GROUP FUNCTIONS IN SQL?
77. WHAT IS A RELATIONSHIP AND WHAT ARE THEY?
78. HOW CAN YOU INSERT NULL VALUES IN A COLUMN WHILE INSERTING THE DATA?
79. WHAT IS THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘BETWEEN’ AND ‘IN’ CONDITION OPERATORS?
80. WHY ARE SQL FUNCTIONS USED?
81. WHAT IS THE NEED FOR MERGE STATEMENT?
82. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY RECURSIVE STORED PROCEDURE?
83. WHAT IS CLAUSE IN SQL?
84. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘HAVING’ CLAUSE AND A ‘WHERE’ CLAUSE?
85. LIST THE WAYS IN WHICH DYNAMIC SQL CAN BE EXECUTED?
86. WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSTRAINTS?
87. HOW CAN YOU FETCH COMMON RECORDS FROM TWO TABLES?
88. LIST SOME CASE MANIPULATION FUNCTIONS IN SQL?
89. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT SET OPERATORS AVAILABLE IN SQL?
90. WHAT IS AN ALIAS COMMAND?
91. WHAT ARE AGGREGATE AND SCALAR FUNCTIONS?
92. HOW CAN YOU FETCH ALTERNATE RECORDS FROM A TABLE?
93. NAME THE OPERATOR WHICH IS USED IN THE QUERY FOR PATTERN MATCHING?
94. HOW CAN YOU SELECT UNIQUE RECORDS FROM A TABLE?
95. HOW CAN YOU FETCH FIRST 5 CHARACTERS OF THE STRING?
96. WHAT IS THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SQL AND PL/SQL?
97. WHAT IS A VIEW?
98. WHAT ARE VIEWS USED FOR?
99. WHAT IS A STORED PROCEDURE?
100. LIST SOME ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF STORED PROCEDURE?
101. LIST ALL THE TYPES OF USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS?
102. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY COLLATION?
103. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COLLATION SENSITIVITY?
104. WHAT ARE LOCAL AND GLOBAL VARIABLES?
105. WHAT IS AUTO INCREMENT IN SQL?
106. WHAT IS A DATAWAREHOUSE?
107. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT AUTHENTICATION MODES IN SQL SERVER? HOW CAN IT BE CHANGED?
108. WHAT ARE STUFF AND REPLACE FUNCTION?