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SQL Interview Questions and Exercises

The document contains sample SQL exercises to test SQL skills. The exercises include queries to display faculty teaching courses, the largest store by city, and service ticket status and turnaround time. It also provides examples of standard test cases for a FACT table during data loading and steps to validate a target dimension table against the source table to identify discrepancies.

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SQL Interview Questions and Exercises

The document contains sample SQL exercises to test SQL skills. The exercises include queries to display faculty teaching courses, the largest store by city, and service ticket status and turnaround time. It also provides examples of standard test cases for a FACT table during data loading and steps to validate a target dimension table against the source table to identify discrepancies.

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Standard Interview Questions

SQL Skills
Exercise 1: How many courses is each faculty is teaching? The query should also
display faculty's that are not taking any courses.
Exercise 1.1: Modify the query to display only those faculties whose name starts
with A.

Exercise 1.2: Modify the query from Exercise 1 to show only those facultys teaching
more than 5 courses.

Faculty
Faculty_ID
Faculty_Na
me
Faculty_De
pt

(PK)

Course_det
ail
Course_ID
Course_Nam
e
Course_start
_dt
Faculty_Id

(PK)

Exercise 2:
What is the largest store in each city?
STORE
City
Baltimore
Silver Spring
DC

Store
A
B
C
D
E
F
G

Size (sqft
000)

Assumption: Table Name = store

20
15
5
12
20
22
9

Exercise 3:
What is the current status and turnaround time(time taken to close the ticket) for
each service ticket?

QA
Exercise 1: Please describe some of the standard test cases that you would writeto
test a FACT table.
Dimension tables: All data is loaded initially and then incremental loads every day
for new/updated records
Fact table: Data loaded incrementally every day

Exercise 2: Lets say we have a source table Person and a target dimention table
Dim_Person. Dim_Person is loaded on daily basis via an ETL tool.Its a straight pull.
You are asked to validate the Dim_Person and you find out that there are
discrepencies in the no: of records from source to target. What steps you would
take to figure out where the discrepencies are.

Only current data in dimensional table:


we need to compare target data with source data, (no history is maintained)
minus query
select * from persons
minus
select * from dim_persons =0 rows

Historical data in dimensional table:


1)we need to have only one active record for every id in dim_persons
2)we need to have active record with end_date null in dim_persons
3)we need to make sure the existing record end_date and active indicator is
updated, with new rows help

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