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 is a job?

3 6340

What are primary keys and foreign keys?

4 8706

How would you Update the rows which are divisible by 10, given a set of numbers in column?

3 11657

If a stored procedure is taking a table data type, how it looks?

2 6530

How m-m relationships are implemented?

2 8422

How do you know which index a table is using?

4 13133

How will oyu test the stored procedure taking two parameters namely first name and last name returning full name?

3 8563

How do you find the error, how can you know the number of rows effected by last SQL statement?

2 9099

How can you get @@error and @@rowcount at the same time?

9 24571

What are sub-queries? Give example? In which case sub-queries are not feasible?

Infosys,

4 12181

What are the type of joins? When do we use Outer and Self joins?

3 10377

Which virtual table does a trigger use?

TCS,

8 27749

How do you measure the performance of a stored procedure?

Infosys,

3 16362

Questions regarding Raiseerror?

1 6973

Questions on identity?

Infosys,

2 7139

Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

What are the different SQL Server Versions you have worked on?

1071

What is acid mean in sql server?

1218

How to provide default values to function parameters?

1235

Can we shrink data file in sql server?

1112

Can we do dml on views?

1024

What kind of problems occurs if we do not implement proper locking strategy?

1479

What is the difference between for xml raw and for xml auto?

1095

Is there any performance difference between if exists (select null from table) and if exists (select 1 from table)?

1015

How to connect php with different port numbers?

1159

How to remove duplicate rows from table except one?

1070

This question asked during interview, 2) At the end of each month, a new table is created for each bank that contains monthly metrics consolidated at the account level. The table naming convention is bankX_YYYYMM where X represents the numeric designation of the bank and YYYYMM indicates the 4 digit year and 2 digit month. The tables contain the following fields: name data type description account text account number registered boolean indicates whether the account is registered num_trans integer number of transactions made during the time period spend numeric(9,2) total spend during the time period a) Write a SQL query that will display the total number of transactions and total spend for "Bank1" during the 4th quarter of 2009. b) Write a SQL query that will display the total number of transactions and total spend at "Bank1" and "Bank2", broken out by registered vs. non-registered accounts, during January 2010 not sure what is correct answer and how to solve?

2545

How do I find the sql server version?

1096

What is in place upgrade in sql server?

1113

What is the primary use of the model database?

1141

Why we use the openxml clause?

1059

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