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SQL Server Interview Questions

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what is the output for this query select * from employee where 1=1;

4 14485

table:employee EID ENAME MID(manager ids) 101 rama null 102 sita 101 103 siva 101 104 ganesh 103 . . . . . . for 103 ID the manager ID is 101(RAMA) and for 104 manager is SIVA if i give employee id (EID) you have to tell the manager for that EID write query? eample:if i give 102 .The query output should be manager for 102 ID that it should print RAMA as output

7 10606

Table student containing 2 columns,Join date,Employee name. Under join date 4 rows r ter =1-jan-2008,2-feb-2008,3-mar- 2008,4-feb-2008.Under Employee name 4 difeerent names jaison,robin,binoy,rahul Result set is, Table containing 4-column name=jan,feb,mar,april,,beneath these months count is given as 1,2,1,0 means these counts representing number of emplooyees joined in a month(january 1employee,february 2 employee,march 1 employee,april 0 employee) Can you give me the required sql query

RND Soft, Wipro,

3 7284

What is the difference between MVC and Teir Architecher? Plz explain with Layyered Programming example...? Thanks

TCS,

2137

how to replace double quotes by single quotes in sql server

CAC,

2 13402

hi, i have a table called names and field name select * from names name a b c d i want to display like this name a,b,c,d how it is possible Regards Baiju

4 7039

what is for foreign key ??

CarrizalSoft Technologies, Sabic,

4 7757

How can count the string ? for ex: If i have string like 'bhaskar' then i need like b:1 h:1 a:2 s:1 k:1 r:1 please give any idea on that

TCS,

9 11903

What is SQL Profiler what is the use of it?

247Customer, Steria,

2 13456

What are the advantages of using views. Why do we need views when we have SPs?

247Customer,

4 16743

How many types of cursors are there in SQL Server?

247Customer, CarrizalSoft Technologies,

5 22663

What is the difference between the following two sql statements select count(*) from select count(col_name) from

247Customer,

5 9739

What are the advantages of using stored procedures? Please don't simply say compilation time will be saved as they are already complied. Please specify some other advantages.

247Customer,

3 6550

Differences between functions and stored procedures?

247Customer, Accenture,

8 15993

Can we have more than one NULL in a column having unique constraint?

247Customer,

12 16987

Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

When we should use @@error?

1038

What happens on checkpoint?

1074

How to connect php with different port numbers?

1153

What command do we use to rename a database?

1122

Explain the architecture of ms sql reporting service?

972

role of sql sever 2005 in database rather than any other database

1993

Write down the syntax and an example for create, rename and delete index?

1029

How to check if stored procedure is running in sql server?

1133

How exceptions can be handled in sql server programming?

1077

as a part of your job, what are the dbcc commands that you commonly use for database maintenance? : Sql server database administration

952

Is it possible to update the views? If yes, how, if not, why?

1091

How will you know when statistics on a table are obsolete?

1131

What is difference between views and tables?

1078

Which are the olap features?

1013

what is memory-optimized nonclustered indexes

1067

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