Oracle Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What are the different types of failures that occur in Oracle database?

HCL,

585

How to Truncate Table in Oracle

HCL,

646

What is the purpose of tables, private synonyms and public synonyms in Oracle?

HCL,

579

 How to use an oracle sequence generator in a mapping?

Informatica,

556

 What are the oracle DML commands possible through an update strategy?

Informatica,

572

Explain the use of Merge statement in oracle 11g

Infosys,

586

What are the tools for Oracle ?

Infosys,

592

Name the three major set of files on disk that compose a database in Oracle?

625

What is an Oracle Instance?

675

What are the four Oracle system processes that must always be up and running for the database to be useable?

583

Explain what are the different type of segments?

568

Explain a private synonyms?

623

Explain an index?

654

What do database buffers contain?

557

Explain view?

571


Un-Answered Questions { Oracle }

If you had a tablespace, test_tablespace, which consists of three files:test01.dbf, test02.dbf, and test03.dbf, and someone accidentally used the unix command"rm" to delete the file test02.dbf, what else would you need in order to recover all the data thatwas present in test_tablespace at the time that test02.dbf was deleted?

291


What is a system tablespace?

586


What is the difference between count (*), count (expression), count (distinct expression)?

547


Is oracle a language?

511


What is background process in Oracle?

620






What is difference between co-related sub query and nested sub query?

291


what are actual and formal parameters?

585


 What are the oracle DML commands possible through an update strategy?

572


difference between global n context sensitive segments?

2193


Tab A A B ------ 1 A 2 B 3 C Tab B A B ----- 4 D 5 E 6 F Generate the value into B table from A table. Only table A has the value. Write the SQL query to get B table value.

1250


What do you understand by lov and how can it be used?

569


Difference between oracle's plus (+) notation and ansi join notation?

564


What is the difference between substr and instr?

511


List out the types of joins.

583


Components of Oracle Data Integrator?

255