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 database replicaion? What are the different types of replication you can set up in SQL Server?

Aptech, HCL, Perpetual, SAIC,

5 25827

How to determine the service pack currently installed on SQL Server?

HCL,

4 10739

Can you have a nested transaction?

HCL,

4 12142

What is an extended stored procedure? Can you instantiate a COM object by using T-SQL?

HCL,

3 12713

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

HCL,

2 13411

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?

HCL,

1 5367

What is the datatype returned by count(*)

247Customer, Asian CERC,

22 39951

how to write test cases for testing databases,especially for testing and writing test cases for stored procedures.any real time database testers.please answer me.

2151

Can I remove the default constraint columns in SQL SERVER?

Value Labs,

5 15548

What is the difference between distinct clause and group by clause?

HHH, Value Labs,

2 16868

can we call stored Procedure in Function in Sql Server 2000 and vice versa.

C3I, eSoft, iPRO Solutions, Wipro,

3 19734

What is an extended Stored Procedure?

1 6630

What is Trigger?

Misys,

3 10949

What is a view? is View updatable?

IBM, L&T,

17 35727

What is the difference between having and where clause?

4 10764

Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

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

1108

Explain “row_number()” in sql server with an example?

1066

What is standby servers? Explain types of standby servers.

1067

Can sql servers link to other servers like oracle?

906

What is a scheduled job or what is a scheduled task?

1029

How to convert character strings into numeric values?

1184

What is acid mean in sql server?

1230

What are the different subsets of sql?

1642

Where can you add custom error messages to sql server?

1197

How efficient you are in oracle and SQL server?

1249

What is subquery? Explain the properties of a subquery?

1052

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?

2553

What is the difference between upgrade and migration in sql server?

1170

How to connect php with different port numbers?

1171

Why we use the openxml clause?

1064

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