SQL Server Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What do you mean by COLLATION?

ABC, BirlaSoft,

4 12661

What is a Join in SQL Server?

3 4947

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

2 5614

When do you use SQL Profiler?

Wipro,

3 8359

What is a Linked Server?

1 5293

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

1 4348

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

1 4493

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

3 8502

Can you explain the role of each service?

1 3674

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

HP,

2 10994

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 4412

What are the authentication modes in SQL Server?

IBM, iSmart,

4 7937

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

BirlaSoft,

4 9008

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.

2304

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

2 5872


Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

What is 2nf in normalization?

527


How to Check if table exists in sql server?

611


I have triggers,views,functions,stored Procedures for a table. When I am dropping that table which objects are deleted?

593


How to find out what is the default collation in a database?

617


What are the advantages of passing name-value pairs as parameters?

653






What is command parameter in ssrs?

118


Call by value and call by reference in procedure and function, with NOCOPY.

827


What is amo? : sql server analysis services, ssas

658


You want to implement the many-to-many relationship while designing tables. How would you do it?

551


Which rendering formats are affected by the pagesize properties?

106


You want to be sure that queries in a database always execute at the maximum possible speed. To achieve this goal you have created various indexes on tables which other statement will keep the database in good condition?

528


What is the Difference Between Primary and Foreign Key?

579


Explain what is analysis service repository?

528


What is the main difference between ‘between’ and ‘in’ condition operators?

572


Explain syntax for viewing trigger?

531