SQL Server Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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SQL Server Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What do you mean by COLLATION?

ABC, BirlaSoft,

4 14270

What is a Join in SQL Server?

3 6273

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

2 6513

When do you use SQL Profiler?

Wipro,

3 9581

What is a Linked Server?

1 6028

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

1 5034

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

1 5201

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

3 9891

Can you explain the role of each service?

1 4374

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

HP,

2 12243

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 5152

What are the authentication modes in SQL Server?

IBM, iSmart,

4 9539

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

BirlaSoft,

4 10540

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.

2751

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

2 6896

Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

What is the use of stored procedure?

933

What is transaction server distributed transaction?

1046

How can I check that whether automatic statistic update is enabled or not?

1034

What happens if the update subquery returns no rows in ms sql server?

1118

What is use of attributehierarchyenabled? : sql server analysis services, ssas

1235

Are connections to sql server encrypted?

996

What do you mean by tablesample?

1070

How to add the custom code in Report?

126

What is cursors? And what are the different types of cursor?

1135

How can you stop stored procedures from recompiling?

892

Explain what is analysis service repository?

979

What happens if date-only values are provided as date and time literals?

1013

What is a performance monitor?

969

What are the advantages of sql azure?

140

whats the maximum size of view state??

2187

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