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SQL Server Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What do you mean by COLLATION?

ABC, BirlaSoft,

4 14121

What is a Join in SQL Server?

3 6119

Can you explain the types of Joins that we can have with Sql Server?

2 6413

When do you use SQL Profiler?

Wipro,

3 9472

What is a Linked Server?

1 5945

Can you link only other SQL Servers or any database servers such as Oracle?

1 4982

Which stored procedure will you be running to add a linked server?

1 5138

What are the OS services that the SQL Server installation adds?

3 9773

Can you explain the role of each service?

1 4285

How do you troubleshoot SQL Server if its running very slow?

HP,

2 12134

Lets say due to N/W or Security issues client is not able to connect to server or vice versa. How do you troubleshoot?

1 5075

What are the authentication modes in SQL Server?

IBM, iSmart,

4 9361

Where do you think the users names and passwords will be stored in sql server?

BirlaSoft,

4 10396

What is log shipping? Can we do logshipping with SQL Server 7.0 - Logshipping is a new feature of SQL Server 2000. We should have two SQL Server - Enterprise Editions. From Enterprise Manager we can configure the logshipping. In logshipping the transactional log file from one server is automatically updated into the backup database on the other server. If one server fails, the other server will have the same db and we can use this as the DR (disaster recovery) plan.

2720

Let us say the SQL Server crashed and you are rebuilding the databases including the master database what procedure to you follow?

2 6785

Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

How is table type constraint applied to a table?

940

How to list all user defined functions in the current database?

990

Explain what is row_number function?

981

What is cross join in sql server joins?

1081

What are the High-Availability solutions in SQL Server and differentiate them briefly?

1095

What is the purpose of sql profiler in sql server?

973

where the connection string store in the database

2028

What is use of except clause? How it differs from not in clause?

981

What is log in sql server?

1089

How to rebuild all indexes on a single table?

1003

What is attribute relationships, why we need it? : sql server analysis services, ssas

918

What is equi join with example?

1027

How to generate random numbers with the rand() function in ms sql server?

1068

Tell me what is the order in which the sql query is executed?

907

What is updatable resultset?

946

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