DB Development Interview Questions
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What are cursors? Explain different types of cursors?

6 26229

What are the disadvantages of cursors? How can you avoid cursors?

2 9682

Explain the general syntax for a SELECT statements covering all the options.

3 6611

What is a join and explain different types of joins?

2 4616

Can you have a nested transaction?

1 2478

What is an extended stored procedure?

1 4620

Can you instantiate a COM object by using T-SQL?

1 3412

What is the system function to get the current user's user id?

4 6012

What are triggers? How many triggers you can have on a table?

Ramco,

2 7231

There is a trigger defined for INSERT operations on a table, in an OLTP system. The trigger is written to instantiate a COM object and pass the newly insterted rows to it for some custom processing. What do you think of this implementation? Can this be implemented better?

1980

What is a self join? Explain it with an example?

TCS,

16 56552

Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?

9 11599

What is normalization? Explain different levels of normalization?

CG-VAK, Choice Solutions, College School Exams Tests, IBM, Wipro,

8 59768

What is denormalization and when would you go for it?

NBP,

9 36383

How do you implement one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to- many relationships while designing tables?

Flextronics, Hexaware, SQL Star,

1 9154


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How can you log an error to the server event log from a stored procedure?

548


Who are end users in dbms?

538


In which database can extended stored procedures be added?

523


To convert IDMS to DB2, how to deal with IDMS occurs and redefined clause?

3417


Explain about the relational database?

600






What are data modelling techniques?

514


What is the maximum length of an extended property?

546


What is normalization? Explain different levels of normalization?

59768


Hi my program is accesing data from two db2 databases.what is the bind card for this program to genarate plan? how to specify the two owners and two qualifiers in bind card

1666


Explain about network model?

577


How long can an error message be in raiseerror function?

538


A) Which two are benefits of Teradata's support for ANSI Standard SQL? (Choose two.) 1.data is distributed automatically 2.queries get optimized to better plans 3.submit queries from other database systems 4.can interface with BI tools B) Which statement is true when comparing the advantages of third normal form to star schema? 1.Star schema tends to have fewer entities. 2.Star schema requires additional data storage. 3.Third normal form tends to have fewer entities. 4.Third normal form requires additional data storage. C)Which two sets of functions does the Parsing Engine (PE) perform? (Select two.) 1.sorting, formatting, and aggregating of the final answer set 2.flow control of the data to and from the participating tables 3.SQL statement interpretation, syntax validation, and semantic evaluation 4.dispatching the step execution sequence to the AMP via the BYNET D) Which two can be achieved with Teradata Active System Management (TASM)? (Choose two.) 1.disable hardware 2.react to hardware failure 3.influence response times 4.collect metadata E) Which three mechanisms can be used to ensure security within the Teradata Database? (Choose three.) 1.views 2.spool limits 3.roles 4.access rights 5.profiles

6013


What are the constraints on severity level in raiseerror?

574


Pgm A calls Pgm B and pgm B uses cursor, when pgm B is called second time, the program is abending saying the cursor is opened? Why?

1994


On friday, you issued several insert statements using query analyzer. You then verified the data had been correctly entered with a select statement on monday, your users report that the data is not there what happened?

548