SQL Server Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How many databases Microsoft SQL server provides?

Abacus,

828

What does Master database contains?

Abacus,

840

What gets stored inside msdb database?

Abacus,

991

What is the use of tempdb? What values does it hold?

Abacus,

787

Why Master database is required?

Abacus,

813

Why SQL Agent is used?

Abacus,

846

Explain the types of indexes.

Accenture,

878

How network traffic be reduced by using the stored procedure?

Accenture,

839

What is a trigger? Why we need it?

Accenture,

742

What is the difference between functions and stored procedures?

Accenture,

846

How self join is different from outer join?

Blue Star,

834

What are the different types of indexes?

Blue Star,

818

What is meant by referential integrity?

Blue Star,

787

What new changes are being made in SQL Server?

Blue Star,

834

What are the disadvantages of primary key and foreign key in SQL?

Alcatel-Lucent,

860


Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

Describe triggers features and limitations?

716


What is the status of services on passive node for failover cluster in sql server? : sql server database administration

899


What is the osql utility?

758


what number files will a information contain in SQL Server? How many forms of information files exist in SQL Server? How many of those files can exist for a single database?

776


In which files does sql server actually store data?

659


To automatically record the time on which the data was modified in a table, which data type should you choose for the column?

749


What is RAID? What are the different types of RAID configurations?

848


How to create an index on a view?

779


What is molap and its advantage? : sql server analysis services, ssas

750


Explain how to use linked server?

774


your sql server is running out of disk space. You notice that there are several large files with ldf extensions what are these files? : Sql server administration

781


What are the five characteristics of good data?

715


Explain insert into select statement?

727


Do you have any idea about the tcl commands?

752


What is difference between view and materialized view?

744