I am currently pursuing a career in Cognos and need your
support in the same regard. I am in the position that you
were in as described above. I would like you to share your
experience during interviews, project explanation, on the
job etc. I am preparing for the interviews and am quite
nervous about cracking it. I am sure you understand the
anxiety. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Awaiting your response!

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What is normalisation?
What is a trigger? (A special type of stored procedure, executed when certain event occurs.)
What does the FROM clause do?
Can you use an UPDATE clause and a SELECT clause together in the same query?
What is the difference between unique key and primary key?
What is referential integrity?
What is the use of AS clause?
What does locking refer to?
Why ORDER BY clause is used?
What is clustered and non-clustered index?
What is the difference between DELETE, DROP and TRUNCATE?(Delete-deletes the rows based on WHERE clause, Drop-Delete the table structure, Truncate-Deletes all the rows in a table without affecting the table structure)

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