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 do you mean by COLLATION?

ABC, BirlaSoft,

4 14283

What is a Join in SQL Server?

3 6300

Can you explain the types of Joins that we can have with Sql Server?

2 6527

When do you use SQL Profiler?

Wipro,

3 9603

What is a Linked Server?

1 6045

Can you link only other SQL Servers or any database servers such as Oracle?

1 5052

Which stored procedure will you be running to add a linked server?

1 5226

What are the OS services that the SQL Server installation adds?

3 9906

Can you explain the role of each service?

1 4378

How do you troubleshoot SQL Server if its running very slow?

HP,

2 12277

Lets say due to N/W or Security issues client is not able to connect to server or vice versa. How do you troubleshoot?

1 5165

What are the authentication modes in SQL Server?

IBM, iSmart,

4 9561

Where do you think the users names and passwords will be stored in sql server?

BirlaSoft,

4 10574

What is log shipping? Can we do logshipping with SQL Server 7.0 - Logshipping is a new feature of SQL Server 2000. We should have two SQL Server - Enterprise Editions. From Enterprise Manager we can configure the logshipping. In logshipping the transactional log file from one server is automatically updated into the backup database on the other server. If one server fails, the other server will have the same db and we can use this as the DR (disaster recovery) plan.

2762

Let us say the SQL Server crashed and you are rebuilding the databases including the master database what procedure to you follow?

2 6915

Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

What is a db view?

900

What are the aggregate and scalar functions?

1068

How to Improve the performencs of SQL Server 2005 exclude stored Procedure and Indexes?

2021

What is perspective, have you ever created perspective? : sql server analysis services, ssas

913

what is database replication? : Sql server database administration

1062

How to perform backup for certificates in sql server? : sql server security

1092

What are the differences between lost updates and uncommitted dependencies?

1076

Explain how many types of relationship?

1027

How to assign null values to variables or columns?

973

how can you find out if the current user is a member of the specified microsoft® windows nt® group or microsoft sql server™ role? : Sql server administration

983

Some queries related to SQL

982

What is open database communication (odbc)?

1063

What is a coalesce function?

1194

What is indexed view?

980

Can sql servers linked to other servers?

1040

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