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Question 2: SQL Query to find Max Salary from each department.

Answer: You can find the maximum salary for each department by grouping all records by DeptId and
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SELECT DeptID, MAX(Salary) FROM Employee
GROUP BY DeptID.
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These questions become more interesting if Interviewer will ask you to print department name instead
of department id, in that case, you need to join Employee table with Department using foreign key
DeptID, make sure you do LEFT or RIGHT OUTER JOIN to include departments without any
employee as well. Here is the query
SELECT DeptName, MAX(Salary) FROM Employee e RIGHT JOIN Department d ON e.DeptId = d.DeptID GROUP
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Question 3: Write SQL Query to display the current date.

Answer: SQL has built-in function called GetDate() which returns the current timestamp. This will
work in Microsoft SQL Server, other vendors like Oracle and MySQL also has equivalent functions.
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Question 5: Write an SQL Query to print the name of the distinct employee whose DOB is
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between 01/01/1960 to 31/12/1975.

Answer: This SQL query is tricky, but you can use BETWEEN clause to get all records whose date fall
between two dates.
SELECT DISTINCT EmpName FROM Employees WHERE DOB
BETWEEN 01/01/1960 AND 31/12/1975;
Question 6: Write an SQL Query find number of employees according to gender whose DOB is
between 01/01/1960 to 31/12/1975.
Answer :
SELECT COUNT(*), sex from Employees
WHERE
DOB BETWEEN '01/01/1960' AND '31/12/1975'
GROUP BY sex;
Question 7: Write an SQL Query to find an employee whose Salary is equal or greater than
10000.
Answer :
SELECT EmpName FROM
Employees WHERE
Salary>=10000;
Question 8: Write an SQL Query to find name of employee whose name Start with M
Answer :
SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE EmpName like 'M%';
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stored as JOE, Joe, or joe.

Answer :
SELECT * from Employees
WHERE
UPPER(EmpName) like '%JOE%';
Question 10: Write an SQL Query to find the year from date.
Answer: Here is how you can find Year from a Date in SQL Server 2008
SELECT YEAR(GETDATE()) as "Year";
Question 11: Write SQL Query to find duplicate rows in a database? and then write SQL query to
delete them?
Answer: You can use the following query to select distinct records:
SELECT * FROM emp a WHERE rowid = (SELECT MAX(rowid) FROM EMP b WHERE a.empno=b.empno)
to Delete:
DELETE FROM emp a WHERE rowid != (SELECT MAX(rowid) FROM emp b WHERE a.empno=b.empno);
Question 12: There is a table which contains two column Student and Marks, you need to find
all the students, whose marks are greater than average marks i.e. list of above average
students.
Answer: This query can be written using subquery as shown below:
SELECT student, marks from table where marks > SELECT AVG(marks) from table)
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Question 13: How do you find all employees which are also manager? .
You have given a standard employee table with an additional column mgr_id, which contains
employee id of the manager.
Answer: You need to know about self-join to solve this problem. In Self Join, you can join two instances
of the same table to find out additional details as shown below
SELECT e.name, m.name FROM Employee e, Employee m WHERE e.mgr_id = m.emp_id;
this will show employee name and manager name in two column e.g.
name manager_name
John David
One follow-up is to modify this query to include employees which don't have a manager. To solve that,
instead of using the inner join, just use left outer join, this will also include employees without
managers.
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Question 14: You have a composite index of three columns, and you only provide the value of
two columns in WHERE clause of a select query? Will Index be used for this operation? For
example if Index is on EmpId, EmpFirstName, and EmpSecondName and you write query like
SELECT * FROM Employee WHERE EmpId=2 and EmpFirstName='Radhe'
If the given two columns are secondary index column then the index will not invoke, but if the given 2
columns contain the primary index(first column while creating index) then the index will invoke. In this
case, Index will be used because EmpId and EmpFirstName are primary columns.
Hope this article will help you to take a quick practice whenever you are going to attend any interview
and not have much time to go into the deep of each query, but if you have good time to prepare then I
suggest you to read and solve SQL queries from Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers, Second
edition, one of the best book for SQL query lovers and enthusiastic.
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94 comments:
narasimha May 1, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Really gud bro iam seraching for two months onwards thnxs...
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Anonymous May 15, 2013 at 7:06 AM

Nice stuffs...Thanks..pls also try to update somethng new if you have
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Pritam_Ghosh May 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM

Excellent Yaar..I was searching such question..Thanks keep posting
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jaya June 12, 2013 at 6:12 AM

very nice, really helpful .... need more such type of questions.
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Anonymous June 12, 2013 at 11:30 AM

thnx bro it's really helpful
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Anonymous July 3, 2013 at 3:57 AM
Thanks pal...I needed these things...
Unknown October 12, 2015 at 9:52 AM

Good queries for practice SQL
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Question 9: find all Employee records containing the word "Joe", regardless of whether it was stored as
JOE, Joe, or joe.
SQL>SELECT * FROM Employees
WHERE UPPER(EmpName) LIKE '%JOE%';
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Ravi Krishna November 8, 2013 at 4:53 AM
Select * from employee where EmpName in ('Joe','JOE','joe')
Anonymous June 4, 2014 at 8:59 PM

This wont find jOE, jOe kind of names. Query given by previous Anonymous is correct.

select * from employee
Where EmpName like '%Joe%'
This will help you find any name whose name came with joe but if u want find only starting 3
letter who start with name Joe. That time u having use below query.
Where EmpName like 'Joe%'
and vice versa for last name word was joe use this
Where EmpName like '%Joe'
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Even a children can create all these query's ......
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good effort publish more queries
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Anonymous April 16, 2015 at 12:39 AM
OK
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I was asked this SQL Question in recent interview :
1) You have a composite index of three columns, and you only provide value of two columns in WHERE
clause of a select query? Will Index be used for this operation?
Can any one please help here?
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Anonymous September 24, 2013 at 3:15 AM
If the given two columns are secondary index column then index will not invoke
but if the given 2 columns contain primary index(first col while creating index) then index will
invoke.
Jaspreet Banga September 29, 2013 at 7:43 AM

in your case the composite index would not work because of the column not included in the
where clause.
Still you want to use an index you give an index hint select /*+ INDEX(TABLE_NAME
IDX_NAME) */ * from table_name;
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Anonymous July 30, 2013 at 11:24 PM

Good Questions.
Need more sql questions of this kind. :)
Thanks.
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Keshav Singh August 21, 2013 at 11:30 PM

Initial few question are upto standard . Other are very very basic SQL queries
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suresh kumar August 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM

Good Questions
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bhavesh September 25, 2013 at 4:05 AM

nice upload some query for experience developer
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Anonymous October 30, 2013 at 12:14 AM

Some queries are very good but some one is very basic and please update this page after some period.
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Anonymous November 11, 2013 at 12:09 AM

My list of some good SQL Query based interview Questions :
1) Write SQL Query to find duplicate rows in a database? and then write SQL query to delete them?
2) TODO
3) TODO
4) TODO
ha ha ha
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select * from emp a where rowid = (select max(rowid) from emp b where a.empno=b.empno)
to Delete:
delete from emp a where rowid != (select max(rowid) from emp b where a.empno=b.empno);
Jagadish K November 21, 2013 at 10:44 PM

I know to ways one way use max and another way use distinct
one way :DELETE
FROM TestTable
WHERE ID NOT IN
(
SELECT MAX(ID)
FROM TestTable
GROUP BY NameCol)
GO
and
another way
Select Distinct id, name into #temp from emp;
Truncate table emp;
Insert into emp(id,name) select id,name from #temp;
Nandakumar Govindarajulu Ethirajulu January 14, 2016 at 11:47 AM

Ans: Select Key column --> Group by Key column --> Having count(*) > 1
Will give Duplicate records
Replace select with Delete statement
Nandakumar Govindarajulu Ethirajulu January 14, 2016 at 11:54 AM

eg., Delete from customer where cus_id in (select cus_id from customer
group by cus_id
having count(*) > 1)
Nandakumar Govindarajulu Ethirajulu January 14, 2016 at 12:02 PM

For performance (Millions of records) Use exists instead of in and Constant for Existence
Checking
eg.,
delete from customer a where exists (select 1 from customer b where a.cus_id = b.cus_id
group by cus_id
having count(*) > 1)
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Anonymous January 18, 2014 at 1:02 PM

Really good ones, Can you add more do this list please?
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Javin Paul
January 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM
Hi Anonymous, I am planning to add more such SQL queries, but if you have been asked
something then you can also share with us. Thanks
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Shubhangi January 23, 2014 at 8:02 PM

I was asked to write following SQL queries in interview. There is a table which contains two column
Student and Marks, you need to find all the students, whose marks are greater than average marks i.e. list
of above average students. Here is what I wrote:
SELECT Student, Marks FROM Products WHERE Marks> AVG(Marks);
And he says WRONG? Hmmmmm.
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Rahul Askar February 4, 2014 at 10:41 AM
Hi Shubhangi,
You can not use the where clause with SQL functions. Instead you should use HAVING. So,
correct query will be- SELECT Student,Marks FROM Products HAVING Marks>AVG(Marks);

select student, marks from table where marks > (select avg(marks) from table)....
will this work?

rahul's not right answer......above subquery will be good......
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Rahul, HAVING can not be used without GROUP BY.

Subquery will serve the purpose.
Himanshu shekhar October 19, 2014 at 11:01 AM

SELECT Student, Marks FROM products
WHERE marks>(select avg(marks) from products);
Here we can't use having clause as it is not a group by expression. We can't use group
functions like avg,sum,max in where clause even it is a group by expression.
Anonymous October 19, 2014 at 1:34 PM

I think this is right
SELECT Student, Marks FROM Products WHERE Marks > (SELECT AVG(Marks) FROM
Products);
Anonymous November 6, 2014 at 6:12 PM

You can try this WITH cte_mks(Student,AvgMarks)
AS
(SELECT Student,AVG(marks)mks
FROM GROUP BY Student)
SELECT s.Student,Marks
FROM s
INNER JOIN cte_mks m on s.Student=m.Student
and s.marks>m.AvgMarks
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Mahesh Thorat February 3, 2014 at 5:24 PM

Gud job, plz keep it up!
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samiu June 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM

its very helpful for all give some more example
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Anonymous August 31, 2014 at 10:55 PM
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same table as shown below

Select e.name, m.name from Employee e, Employee m where e.mgr_id = m.emp_id;
this will show employee name and manger name in two column e.g.
surabhi Balaji
snhea Balaji
One follow-up is to modify this query to include employees which doesn't have manager. To solve that,
instead of using inner join, just use left outer join, this will include employees without managers.
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Anonymous September 8, 2014 at 9:31 PM

querys r very helpful to me need more querys to practice
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vinodhini September 24, 2014 at 4:56 AM
sql is not case sensitive
Unknown February 28, 2016 at 8:57 AM

or we can directly use
Select * from Employees where manager_id id not null.
How about the above one. Because an employee is a manager, then he must be having
manager id.
Please correct me if i'm wrong.
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vinodhini September 24, 2014 at 4:52 AM

SELECT *
FROM Customer_Entry
WHERE (Customer_Name LIKE '%JOE%')
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Anonymous December 10, 2014 at 10:43 PM
Yes, I believe GETDATE() method works only SQL Server, not sure if it works on Oracle or
MySQL. Though in MSSQL it returns :
SELECT GETDATE()
2014-12-11 15:40:02.910
Mansi December 10, 2014 at 10:51 PM

Hi,
I was asked following SQL query in a recent interview :
You have an Employee table with id, name, salary, manager_id and dept_id and you have a
Deparatment table with dept_id and dept_name. Write SQL queries to
1) Print name of Employee and their Manager's name
2) Print All deparatment and number of employees on it
3) Print all employees who has higher salary than average salary of their department.
I solved them like following, but he says not correct ......
1) SELECT e1.name, e2.name as manager FROM Employee e1 JOIN Employee e2 WHERE
e1.manager_id = e2.id
2) SELECT d.dept_name, count(*) as NumOfEmploye FROM Employee e, Department d
WHERE e.dept_id = d.dept_id
third one I couldn't able to solve in limited time.
Please suggest why he said my answers are wrong, I still didn't get it. thank you
Rajeev December 15, 2014 at 6:42 PM

Hello Mansi, I think your first query is correct. That's the right way to do the self join. but you
second query has a little mistake. Since Question was about print all deparatments, you should
have used left outer join instead of innner join. In your query it will not print departments where
no employee is working. So the correct query would be :
SELECT d.dept_name, count(*) as NumOfEmploye FROM Depatment d LEFT JOIN
Employee e ON d.dept_id = e.dept_id
Remeber I have also change the order, bringing Department table at left.
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Amit December 17, 2014 at 11:04 PM

Hi Mansi, Amit here. You can use correlated subquery to find all employees whose salary is
greater than average salary in their department, here is the SQL query :
SELECT emp_name, salary FROM Employee e1 WHERE salary >= (SELECT AVG(salary)
FROM Employee e2 where e1.department = e2.department)
Let me know if you have any question, happy to help.
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Anonymous December 17, 2014 at 12:44 AM

An interesting question for freshers, you have a table called Scorecard with a numeric column score ,
containing last 6 scores of a cricket player as shown below :
create table Scorecard (int score)
insert into Scorecard values (144);
Can you write a SQL query to find the second largest score from this table? for example in this case it
shoud return 105
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Amit December 17, 2014 at 11:09 PM
This question can be solved with and without correlated subquery :
without correlated sub query :
select MAX(score) from Scorecard where score NOT IN (select MAX(score) from
Scorecard)
using correlated sub query
select MAX(score) from Scorecard s1 where 2 = (select count(distinct score) from
Scorecard s2 where s2.score >= s1.score)
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FROM (SELECT ROWNUM AS RANK,S1.SCORE

FROM (SELECT SCORE
FROM Scorecard
ORDER BY SCORE DESC)S1)S2
WHERE S2.RANK=2
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Anonymous January 21, 2015 at 2:12 AM

thanks guys all post are awesome
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Pankaj February 16, 2015 at 10:06 AM

I asked one Q that in a column positive and negative numbers are there(like 10 20 30 100 -10 -20 -30
-200) now with single select statement I want positive and negative numbers separately. Can anyone
explain this?
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poly sinha March 10, 2015 at 12:07 AM
Hi pankaj, please check this query hope it will satisfy ur criteria.
select * from number1 where digit >= 10 or digit <= 10;
if m wrong please guide.
kisan swain April 4, 2015 at 2:14 PM

select (case when digit>=0 then digit end )positive, (case when digit<=0 then digit end )negative
from t.n;
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Anonymous March 27, 2015 at 7:29 AM

On Question 2, your left outer join is incorrect. You stated, "make sure you do LEFT OUTER JOIN to
include departments without any employee as well. Here is the query"
SELECT DeptName, MAX(Salary) FROM Employee LEFT JOIN Department d ON e.DeptId = d.DeptID;
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al0 April 15, 2015 at 4:50 AM

SELECT DeptName, MAX(Salary) FROM Employee e LEFT JOIN Department d ON e.DeptId = d.DeptId
in most SQL dialects will miserably fail due to the missing GROUP BY clause.
Even if your SQL dialect will permit it (which I seriously doubt) it
would return not departments without employees but employees without department, to reach claimed
goal you have either write
SELECT DeptName, MAX(Salary) FROM Department d LEFT JOIN Employee e ON e.DeptId = d.DeptId
or
SELECT DeptName, MAX(Salary) FROM Employee e RIGHT JOIN Department d ON e.DeptId =
d.DeptId
SELECT GetDate();
Many if not most SQL dialects mandate FROM clause.
I am to lazy to read this crap further - if someone would give such answer to me his chances to get the job
will be around zero.
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shukur May 18, 2015 at 4:40 AM

Very nice queries for experience....
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Amit Choudhury May 25, 2015 at 1:55 PM

You have an Employee table with id, name, salary, manager_id and dept_id and you have a Deparatment
table with dept_id and dept_name. Write SQL queries to
Print All deparatment and number of employees on it
ANSWER ASAP if possible....thanx in advance
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Anonymous May 27, 2015 at 2:11 AM

@Amit, the key here is to use LEFT or RIGHT outer join because Interviewer is looking for ALL
department i.e. dpeartment with no employees. Your query should be like
SELECT d.dept_name, COUNT(id) from Department d LEFT JOIN Employee e ON d.dept_id = e.dept_id
GROUP BY dept_name;
Since we have put Department table on left, it will include all department, those also for which dept_id is
not available in Employee table.
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FInd more sql querys for interview practice on below link....good collection
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I was asked to write the SQL for - Display numbers of customers who ordered and bought the items in the
same month ?
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Mostily asked sql developer interview questions:
Q1. What is the use of GRANT command?
Ans. GRANT command is used to grant specific user to perform specific task.
Q2. What is the use of SQL check constraint?
Ans. CHECK constraint limits the value range that can be placed in a column.
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Anonymous October 9, 2015 at 11:26 AM

Thanks for the article. Some of the SQL statements are running to the right hand side, could you make
them wrap around please? Thanks.
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vikas October 30, 2015 at 12:08 AM

SELECT ISDATE('1/08/13') AS "MM/DD/YY"; why this will return 0. it returns 1 because value is datetime
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Anonymous November 4, 2015 at 6:36 PM

These SQL queries are good to ask for freshers, or 1 to 2 years experience programmer but any
experienced SQL or Web developer surely can answer all of these questions. I would probably include
more SQL queries on joins because that's the one area where both junior and senior developer struggle
e..g giving them couple of tables with more than 20 columns on each and then asking some SQL queries
for generating daily reports. I also try to minimize database specific questions e.g. something which is only
applicable to MySQL, SQL SERVER or Oracle should not be asked unless you are tied to just one and
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- stored procedure
- and joins again
Good luck
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Unknown November 25, 2015 at 4:52 AM

Why my query doesn't work?
The query is:
SELECT
MGHEAD.MGLINE,
MGHEAD.MTRESP,
MGHEAD.MTTRDT,
MGHEAD.MTWHLO,
MGHEAD.MTTRNR, MGHEAD.MTTRSH
FROM MVXBE.MVXCDTMESP.MGHEAD
WHERE (MGHEAD.MGLINE ='100') AND (MGHEAD.MTWHLO='R31') AND (MGHEAD.MTTRSH='15')
When I run, I have an error: Column MTTRSH not in table MGHEAD in MVXCDTMESP
Can you help me?
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Sandeep Yadav November 25, 2015 at 5:18 AM

please any one know how to find employee who working more than one department ,write the syntex only
.
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bhavin relwani January 12, 2016 at 3:05 AM
select emp,count(dept) from emp e inner join dept on e.emp=d.emp group by emp having
count(dept)>1
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A good exercise for brains:)
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Good work . it is really helpful
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Unknown December 8, 2015 at 11:51 PM

*
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*****
using lpad and rpad
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Khan Saadi December 18, 2015 at 6:01 AM

The first Query can also be written as
select max(sal) from emp
where sal < (select max(sal) from emp where sal;
It can be nested thrice also so it will give third highest salaries among employees..
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raj December 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM

Thank you.. For Good Post.
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Unknown January 5, 2016 at 2:51 AM

Thanks a lot, Really nice Interview Questions.
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Anonymous February 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM

Good queries for Java Developers
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Anonymous February 17, 2016 at 12:15 AM

Knowing just SQL queries will not be enough, you also need to prepare traditional SQL interview
questions like:
What are window function?
Difference between rank() and dense_rank() in SQL?
Difference between where and having clause in SQL?
Difference between correlated vs non-correlated subquery?
primary key vs foreign key
truncate vs delete etc.
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kanika narang March 9, 2016 at 12:03 AM

please post more questions..........
Thanks
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Janardan Singh March 17, 2016 at 11:56 PM

What is difference between Clustered Index and No-Clustered Index??
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Janardan Singh March 17, 2016 at 11:59 PM

What is normalization? Explain different forms of normalization?
Normalization is a process of organizing the data to minimize the redundancy in the relational database
management system (RDBMS). The use of normalization in database is to decompose the relations with
anomalies to produce well structured and smaller relations. There are 6 forms of normalization which are
as follows:- 1NF represents a relation with no repeating groups
- 2NF represents no non-prime attribute in the table
- 3NF defines that every non-prime attribute is non-transitively dependent on every candidate key
- 4NF defines that every non-trival multi-valued dependency in table is dependent on superkey.
- 5NF defines that every non-trival join dependency in table is implied by superkey in table.
- 6NF defines that a table features no non-trival join dependency.
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We
Have
two
table
Product_detail
and
Supplier.
In
Product_detail
column
P_id,P_name,P_quantity,P_comments AND In Supplier column are S_id, S_name,S_phone,S_city.
are
Question 1 : list all supplier name and phone where product quantity is 0 ?
Question 2 : list all supplier name where comments is greater then 300 string?
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Q1: SELECT s_name,s_phone from Supplier s where s.column_name in (select p.colum_name
from product_detail p where p.p_quantity = 0)
OR
SELECT s_name,s_phone from Supplier s left outer join product_detail p on s.column_name =
p.column_name and p.p_quantity = 0)
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SELECT s_name from Supplier s left outer join product_detail p on s.column_name =

p.column_name and len(p.p_comments) > 300
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Unknown May 25, 2016 at 3:14 PM

wonderful
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Aniket Kakade June 3, 2016 at 12:27 AM

Id Dept_Name Dept_Id
1A3
2B5
3C2
4D1
5E1
I have this department table
Dept_Name Dept_Id
AC
BE
CB
DA
EA
I want this type output like above.
anybody can help me
Which query is used?
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Id Dept_Name Dept_Id
1A3
2B5
3C2
4D1
5E1
I have this department table
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DA
EA
I want this type output like above.
anybody can help me
Which query is used?
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pavan kumar June 27, 2016 at 5:51 PM

nice info very usefull
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hmmm.. effective stuff..
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Deepika Sain July 6, 2016 at 10:01 PM

nice
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Anonymous July 27, 2016 at 9:33 PM

This is an excellent collection. Can I request you to add more complex and tough SQL questions please
e.g. related to index rebuild, performance, query troubleshooting and finding ways to optimize queries,
that will help a lot.
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Sanjib Singh September 8, 2016 at 12:00 AM

hi guys I have one query---- i.e. suppose their is a string named as 'aabacus' to get no of characters'a'
from this string we can use select regexp_count('aabacus' 'a') from dual; then o/p -- 3, is their any
alternate method to get the same result.
thanks
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Bonny Varghese September 20, 2016 at 9:09 AM
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insert into employee values(2,'Alex','Corp',0,'06-03-2008');

insert into employee values(3,'Linda','IT',9,'07-02-2010');
insert into employee values(4,'Rahul','Purchase',8,'08-12-2010');
insert into employee values(5,'Ismail','Purchase',8,'09-08-2012');
insert into employee values(6,'Zheng','Sales',7,'10-05-2012');
insert into employee values(7,'Reiki','Sales',2,'11-02-2009');
insert into employee values(8,'Aris','Sales',2,'12-08-2011');
insert into employee values(9,'Jena','IT',2,'01-01-2008');
insert into employee values(10,'Bonny','IT',9,'01-01-2008');
select * from employee;
select id,manager,to_char(doj,'dd-mon-yyyy') from employee;
1. list the employees who are not managers
select name from employee
where id not in (select manager from employee);
2. manager with only one reportee
select mgr from (select e1.id as mgr ,e2.id as id from employee e1
inner join employee e2 on
e1.id=e2.manager)abc
group by mgr having count(id)=1
3. what is the month with most hiring?
select dt from (select dt,rank() over(order by cnt desc) as rnk from (select to_char(doj,'mm') as dt ,count(*)
as cnt from employee
group by to_char(doj,'mm'))) where rnk=1;
4.what is the experience gap between the first employee and the latest?
select max(doj)-min(doj) from employee;
5. name the manager with most reportees?
select mgr from (select mgr,rank() over( order by cnt desc) as rnk from (select mgr,count(id) as cnt from
(select e1.id as mgr,e2.id as id from employee e1
inner join employee e2
on e1.id=e2.manager)
group by mgr)) where rnk=1
6.list managers who joined after the reportees
select mgr from (select e1.id as mgr,e2.id as id,e1.doj as mdoj, e2.doj as edoj from employee e1
join employee e2 on
e1.id=e2.manager)
group by mgr
having max(mdoj)>min(edoj)
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count(distinct manager) as cnt ,department from employee

group by department)) where rnk=1
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