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This document contains interview questions and answers related to SQL. It discusses the differences between Oracle, SQL, and SQL Server. It also covers topics like indexing, schemas, views, stored procedures vs triggers, normalization, data types, joins, and other SQL concepts. Sample questions include what indexing is used for, the difference between UNION and UNION ALL, and which system table contains constraint information.

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SQL Interview Questions and Answers

This document contains interview questions and answers related to SQL. It discusses the differences between Oracle, SQL, and SQL Server. It also covers topics like indexing, schemas, views, stored procedures vs triggers, normalization, data types, joins, and other SQL concepts. Sample questions include what indexing is used for, the difference between UNION and UNION ALL, and which system table contains constraint information.

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SQL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SQL Interview Questions and Answers :


What is the difference between oracle,sql and sql server ?
 Oracle is based on RDBMS.
 SQL is Structured Query Language.
 SQL Server is another tool for RDBMS provided by MicroSoft.
why you need indexing ? where that is stroed and what you mean by schema
object? For what purpose we are using view?
We cant create an Index on Index.. Index is stoed in user_index table.Every object that has
been created on Schema is Schema Object like Table,View etc.If we want to share the
particular data to various users we have to use the virtual table for the Base table...So tht is
a view.

indexing is used for faster search or to retrieve data faster from various table. Schema
containing set of tables, basically schema means logical separation of the database. View is
crated for faster retrieval of data. It's customized virtual table. we can create a single view
of multiple tables. Only the drawback is..view needs to be get refreshed for retrieving
updated data.

Difference between Store Procedure and Trigger?


 we can call stored procedure explicitly.
 but trigger is automatically invoked when the action defined in trigger is done.
ex: create trigger after Insert on
 this trigger invoked after we insert something on that table.
 Stored procedure can't be inactive but trigger can be Inactive.
 Triggers are used to initiate a particular activity after fulfilling certain condition.It
need to define and can be enable and disable according to need.
What is the advantage to use trigger in your PL?
Triggers are fired implicitly on the tables/views on which they are created. There are various
advantages of using a trigger. Some of them are:
 Suppose we need to validate a DML statement(insert/Update/Delete) that modifies a
table then we can write a trigger on the table that gets fired implicitly whenever DML
statement is executed on that table.
 Another reason of using triggers can be for automatic updation of one or more tables
whenever a DML/DDL statement is executed for the table on which the trigger is
created.
 Triggers can be used to enforce constraints. For eg : Any insert/update/ Delete
statements should not be allowed on a particular table after office hours. For
enforcing this constraint Triggers should be used.
 Triggers can be used to publish information about database events to subscribers.
Database event can be a system event like Database startup or shutdown or it can
be a user even like User loggin in or user logoff.
What the difference between UNION and UNIONALL?
Union will remove the duplicate rows from the result set while Union all does'nt.

What is the difference between TRUNCATE and DELETE commands?


Both will result in deleting all the rows in the table .TRUNCATE call cannot be rolled back as
it is a DDL command and all memory space for that table is released back to the server.
TRUNCATE is much faster.Whereas DELETE call is an DML command and can be rolled back.

Which system table contains information on constraints on all the tables created ? 
yes,
USER_CONSTRAINTS,
system table contains information on constraints on all the tables created
Explain normalization ? 
Normalisation means refining the redundancy and maintain stablisation. there are four types
of normalisation : 
first normal forms, second normal forms, third normal forms and fourth Normal forms.
How to find out the database name from SQL*PLUS command prompt?
Select * from global_name;
This will give the datbase name which u r currently connected to.....
What is the difference between SQL and SQL Server ?
SQLServer is an RDBMS just like oracle,DB2 from Microsoft
whereas 
Structured Query Language (SQL), pronounced "sequel", is a language that provides an
interface to relational database systems. It was developed by IBM in the 1970s for use in
System R. SQL is a de facto standard, as well as an ISO and ANSI standard. SQL is used to
perform various operations on RDBMS.
What is diffrence between Co-related sub query and nested sub query?
Correlated subquery runs once for each row selected by the outer query. It contains a
reference to a value from the row selected by the outer query.
Nested subquery runs only once for the entire nesting (outer) query. It does not contain
any reference to the outer query row.
For example,

Correlated Subquery:
select e1.empname, e1.basicsal, e1.deptno from emp e1 where e1.basicsal = (select
max(basicsal) from emp e2 where e2.deptno = e1.deptno)

Nested Subquery:
select empname, basicsal, deptno from emp where (deptno, basicsal) in (select deptno,
max(basicsal) from emp group by deptno)

WHAT OPERATOR PERFORMS PATTERN MATCHING?


Pattern matching operator is LIKE and it has to used with two attributes
1. % and

2. _ ( underscore )

% means matches zero or more characters and under score means mathing exactly one
character

1)What is difference between Oracle and MS Access?


2) What are disadvantages in Oracle and MS Access?
3) What are feratures&advantages in Oracle and MS Access?
Oracle's features for distributed transactions, materialized views and replication are not
available with MS Access. These features enable Oracle to efficiently store data for
multinational companies across the globe. Also these features increase scalability of
applications based on Oracle.
What is database?
A database is a collection of data that is organized so that itscontents can easily be
accessed, managed and updated. open this
url : http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/d/database.html
What is cluster.cluster index and non cluster index ? 
Clustered Index:- A Clustered index is a special type of index that reorders the way records
in the table are physically stored. Therefore table may have only one clustered index.Non-
Clustered Index:- A Non-Clustered index is a special type of index in which the logical order
of the index does not match the physical stored order of the rows in the disk. The leaf nodes
of a non-clustered index does not consists of the data pages. instead the leaf node contains
index rows.
How can i hide a particular table name of our schema?
you can hide the table name by creating synonyms.
e.g) you can create a synonym y for table x

create synonym y for x;

What is difference between DBMS and RDBMS?


The main difference of DBMS & RDBMS is
RDBMS have Normalization. Normalization means to refining the redundant and maintain
the stablization. 
the DBMS hasn't normalization concept.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of primary key and foreign key in
SQL?
Primary key
Advantages

1) It is a unique key on which all the other candidate keys are functionally dependent
Disadvantage

1) There can be more than one keys on which all the other attributes are dependent on.

Foreign Key
Advantage

1)It allows refrencing another table using the primary key for the other table

Which date function is used to find the difference between two dates?
datediff
for Eg: select datediff (dd,'2-06-2007','7-06-2007')

output is 5

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