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

How can I enforce to use particular index?

Symphony,

1 6260

What is sorting and what is the difference between sorting and clustered indexes?

1 8091

What are the differences between UNION and JOINS?

CarrizalSoft Technologies,

3 6498

What is the use of SCOPE_IDENTITY() function?

2 6544

Can we rollback records deleted by a truncate statement?

CarrizalSoft Technologies, United Healthcare,

3 9019

How many types of indexes are there in SQL Server?

CarrizalSoft Technologies, United Healthcare,

6 12765

How many types of TRIGGERS are there in MS SQL Server?

CarrizalSoft Technologies, TCS, United Healthcare,

8 31686

Difference between: - Delete & Truncate - Table & View - Constraints & Triggers

United Healthcare,

1 6099

Difference b/w Clustered & non-clustered index? Not the bookish definition, but how they internally works in SQL Server?

United Healthcare,

1 5864

Can we execute a stored procedure inside a trigger?

BirlaSoft, CarrizalSoft Technologies, United Healthcare,

6 25286

What is the query optimization statistics?

1 2942

1. What is CUBE Operator? 2. what are the new data types are available in sql server 2008? 3. Inisde a nested queries, how many subqueries u can have?

3 6741

write a query for list of owner who are having multiple bikes in below table 1 shanker pulsar 2 shanker Honda 3 shanker car 4 Balu pulsar 5 Balu Honda 6 Balu car 7 Shyam pulsar 8 Jaya Honda 9 Deepa car 10 vasu car

Cognizant, TCS,

12 16290

How will u test the stroded procedures and functions? difference between SP and Triggers

TCS,

2 7932

explain the type of contraints

3 5545

Un-Answered Questions { SQL Server }

List the ways in which dynamic sql can be executed?

1069

Is it possible to have clustered index on separate drive from original table location?

1024

What is a coalesce function?

1261

Can sql servers link to other servers like oracle?

900

What is an indexed view?

1013

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

1163

How to provide default values to function parameters?

1235

what is the difference between openrowset and openquery?

1174

How to convert numeric expression data types using the cast() function?

1133

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?

2545

How do I find the sql server version?

1096

What is normalization and what are the advantages of it?

1042

What are the source of constraints?

994

How efficient you are in oracle and SQL server?

1234

What are the different SQL Server Versions you have worked on?

1071

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