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UNION merges two tables into one, omitting duplicates, while UNION ALL includes all records, including duplicates, leading to better performance. ANSI-standard SQL supports five JOIN types: INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, FULL JOIN, and CROSS JOIN, each defining how tables are combined based on matching criteria. SQL queries can produce unexpected results due to NULL handling and three-valued logic, necessitating careful construction to avoid issues.

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UNION merges two tables into one, omitting duplicates, while UNION ALL includes all records, including duplicates, leading to better performance. ANSI-standard SQL supports five JOIN types: INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, FULL JOIN, and CROSS JOIN, each defining how tables are combined based on matching criteria. SQL queries can produce unexpected results due to NULL handling and three-valued logic, necessitating careful construction to avoid issues.

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What does UNION do?

What is the difference


between UNION and UNION ALL ?
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UNION merges the contents of two structurally-compatible tables into a single combined
table. The difference between UNION and UNION ALL is that UNION will omit duplicate
records whereas UNION ALL will include duplicate records.
It is important to note that the performance of UNION ALL will typically be better
than UNION , since UNION requires the server to do the additional work of removing any
duplicates. So, in cases where is is certain that there will not be any duplicates, or
where having duplicates is not a problem, use of UNION ALL would be recommended for
performance reasons.

List and explain the different types of JOIN clauses


supported in ANSI-standard SQL.
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ANSI-standard SQL specifies five types of JOIN clauses as follows:


 INNER JOIN (a.k.a. “simple join”): Returns all rows for which there is at least one
match in BOTH tables. This is the default type of join if no specific JOIN type is
specified.
 LEFT JOIN (or LEFT OUTER JOIN ): Returns all rows from the left table, and the
matched rows from the right table; i.e., the results will contain all records from
the left table, even if the JOIN condition doesn’t find any matching records in the
right table. This means that if the ON clause doesn’t match any records in the
right table, the JOIN will still return a row in the result for that record in the left
table, but with NULL in each column from the right table.
 RIGHT JOIN (or RIGHT OUTER JOIN ): Returns all rows from the right table, and the
matched rows from the left table. This is the exact opposite of a LEFT JOIN ; i.e.,
the results will contain all records from the right table, even if the JOIN condition
doesn’t find any matching records in the left table. This means that if
the ON clause doesn’t match any records in the left table, the JOIN will still
return a row in the result for that record in the right table, but with NULL in each
column from the left table.
 FULL JOIN (or FULL OUTER JOIN ): Returns all rows for which there is a match in
EITHER of the tables. Conceptually, a FULL JOIN combines the effect of
applying both a LEFT JOIN and a RIGHT JOIN ; i.e., its result set is equivalent to
performing a UNION of the results of left and right outer queries.
 CROSS JOIN : Returns all records where each row from the first table is combined
with each row from the second table (i.e., returns the Cartesian product of the
sets of rows from the joined tables). Note that a CROSS JOIN can either be
specified using the CROSS JOIN syntax (“explicit join notation”) or (b) listing the
tables in the FROM clause separated by commas without using a WHERE clause
to supply join criteria (“implicit join notation”).

Given the following tables:


sql> SELECT * FROM runners;
+----+--------------+
| id | name |
+----+--------------+
| 1 | John Doe |
| 2 | Jane Doe |
| 3 | Alice Jones |
| 4 | Bobby Louis |
| 5 | Lisa Romero |
+----+--------------+

sql> SELECT * FROM races;


+----+----------------+-----------+
| id | event | winner_id |
+----+----------------+-----------+
| 1 | 100 meter dash | 2 |
| 2 | 500 meter dash | 3 |
| 3 | cross-country | 2 |
| 4 | triathalon | NULL |
+----+----------------+-----------+

What will be the result of the query below?


SELECT * FROM runners WHERE id NOT IN ( SELECT winner_id FROM races)

Explain your answer and also provide an alternative


version of this query that will avoid the issue that it
exposes.
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Surprisingly, given the sample data provided, the result of this query will be an empty
set. The reason for this is as follows: If the set being evaluated by the SQL NOT
IN condition contains any values that are null, then the outer query here will return an
empty set, even if there are many runner ids that match winner_ids in the races table.
Knowing this, a query that avoids this issue would be as follows:

SELECT * FROM runners WHERE id NOT IN ( SELECT winner_id FROM races


WHERE winner_id IS NOT null )
Note, this is assuming the standard SQL behavior that you get without modifying the
default ANSI_NULLS setting.

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Given two tables created and populated as follows:


CREATE TABLE dbo.envelope(id int, user_id int);
CREATE TABLE dbo.docs(idnum int, pageseq int, doctext varchar(100));

INSERT INTO dbo.envelope VALUES


(1,1),
(2,2),
(3,3);

INSERT INTO dbo.docs(idnum,pageseq) VALUES


(1,5),
(2,6),
(null,0);

What will the result be from the following query:


UPDATE docs SET doctext=pageseq FROM docs INNER JOIN envelope ON
envelope.id=docs.idnum
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM dbo.docs
WHERE id=envelope.id
);

Explain your answer.


Hide answer

The result of the query will be as follows:

idnum pageseq doctext


1 5 5
2 6 6
NULL 0 NULL
The EXISTS clause in the above query is a red herring. It will always be true
since ID is not a member of dbo.docs . As such, it will refer to the envelope table
comparing itself to itself!
The idnum value of NULL will not be set since the join of NULL will not return a result
when attempting a match with any value of envelope .

Given these contents of the Customers table:


Id Name ReferredBy
1 John Doe NULL
2 Jane Smith NULL
3 Anne Jenkins 2
4 Eric Branford NULL
5 Pat Richards 1
6 Alice Barnes 2

Here is a query written to return the list of customers not


referred by Jane Smith:
SELECT Name FROM Customers WHERE ReferredBy <> 2;
What will be the result of the query? Why? What would be
a better way to write it?
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Although there are 4 customers not referred by Jane Smith (including Jane Smith
herself), the query will only return one: Pat Richards. All the customers who were
referred by nobody at all (and therefore have NULL in their ReferredBy column) don’t
show up. But certainly those customers weren’t referred by Jane Smith, and certainly
NULL is not equal to 2, so why didn’t they show up?

SQL Server uses three-valued logic, which can be troublesome for programmers
accustomed to the more satisfying two-valued logic (TRUE or FALSE) most
programming languages use. In most languages, if you were presented with two
predicates: ReferredBy = 2 and ReferredBy <> 2, you would expect one of them to be
true and one of them to be false, given the same value of ReferredBy. In SQL Server,
however, if ReferredBy is NULL, neither of them are true and neither of them are false.
Anything compared to NULL evaluates to the third value in three-valued logic:
UNKNOWN.

The query should be written in one of two ways:

SELECT Name FROM Customers WHERE ReferredBy IS NULL OR ReferredBy <> 2

…or:

SELECT Name FROM Customers WHERE ISNULL (ReferredBy, 0 ) <> 2 ; -- (Or

COALESCE() )
Watch out for the following, though!

SELECT Name FROM Customers WHERE ReferredBy = NULL OR ReferredBy <> 2

This will return the same faulty set as the original. Why? We already covered that:
Anything compared to NULL evaluates to the third value in the three-valued logic:
UNKNOWN. That “anything” includes NULL itself! That’s why SQL Server provides the
IS NULL and IS NOT NULL operators to specifically check for NULL. Those particular
operators will always evaluate to true or false.

Even if a candidate doesn’t have a great amount of experience with SQL Server, diving
into the intricacies of three-valued logic in general can give a good indication of whether
they have the ability learn it quickly or whether they will struggle with it.

Considering the database schema displayed in the


SQLServer-style diagram below, write a SQL query to
return a list of all the invoices. For each invoice, show the
Invoice ID, the billing date, the customer’s name, and the
name of the customer who referred that customer (if any).
The list should be ordered by billing date.

View the answer →

Assume a schema of Emp ( Id, Name, DeptId ) , Dept (


Id, Name) .
If there are 10 records in the Emp table and 5 records in
the Dept table, how many rows will be displayed in the
result of the following SQL query:
Select * From Emp, Dept
Explain your answer.
Hide answer

The query will result in 50 rows as a “cartesian product” or “cross join”, which is the
default whenever the ‘where’ clause is omitted.

Given two tables created as follows


create table test_a( id numeric );

create table test_b( id numeric );

insert into test_a( id ) values


( 10 ),
( 20 ),
( 30 ),
( 40 ),
( 50 );

insert into test_b( id ) values


( 10 ),
( 30 ),
( 50 );

Write a query to fetch values in table test_a that are and


not in test_b without using the NOT keyword.
Note, Oracle does not support the above INSERT syntax,
so you would need this instead:
insert into test_a( id ) values ( 10 );
insert into test_a( id ) values ( 20 );
insert into test_a( id ) values ( 30 );
insert into test_a( id ) values ( 40 );
insert into test_a( id ) values ( 50 );
insert into test_b( id ) values ( 10 );
insert into test_b( id ) values ( 30 );
insert into test_b( id ) values ( 50 );
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In SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, this can be done using the except keyword
as follows:
select * from test_a

except
select * from test_b;
In Oracle, the minus keyword is used instead. Note that if there are multiple columns,
say ID and Name, the column should be explicitly stated in Oracle queries: Select ID
from test_a minus select ID from test_b
MySQL does not support the except function. However, there is a standard SQL
solution that works in all of the above engines, including MySQL:
select a.id
from test_a a
left join test_b b on a.id = b.id
where b.id is null ;
Given a table TBL with a field Nmbr that has rows with the
following values:
1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1
Write a query to add 2 where Nmbr is 0 and add 3
where Nmbr is 1.
Hide answer

This can be done as follows:

update TBL set Nmbr = case when Nmbr = 0 then Nmbr+ 2 else Nmbr+ 3
end ;

Write a SQL query to find the 10th highest employee


salary from an Employee table. Explain your answer.
(Note: You may assume that there are at least 10 records
in the Employee table.)
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This can be done as follows:

SELECT TOP ( 1 ) Salary FROM


(
SELECT DISTINCT TOP ( 10 ) Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary DESC
) AS Emp ORDER BY Salary

This works as follows:

First, the SELECT DISTINCT TOP (10) Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary DESC query
will select the top 10 salaried employees in the table. However, those salaries will be
listed in descending order. That was necessary for the first query to work, but now
picking the top 1 from that list will give you the highest salary not the the 10th
highest salary.
Therefore, the second query reorders the 10 records in ascending order (which the
default sort order) and then selects the top record (which will now be the lowest of those
10 salaries).
Not all databases support the TOP keyword. For example, MySQL and PostreSQL use
the LIMIT keyword, as follows:
SELECT Salary FROM
(
SELECT DISTINCT Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary DESC LIMIT 10
) AS Emp ORDER BY Salary LIMIT 1;

Or even more concisely, in MySQL this can be:

SELECT DISTINCT Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary DESC LIMIT 9,1;

And in PostgreSQL this can be:

SELECT DISTINCT Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary DESC LIMIT 1


OFFSET 9;
Write a SQL query using UNION ALL (not UNION ) that uses
the WHERE clause to eliminate duplicates. Why might you
want to do this?
Hide answer

You can avoid duplicates using UNION ALL and still run much faster than UNION
DISTINCT (which is actually same as UNION) by running a query like this:
SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE a=X UNION ALL SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE b=Y AND
a!=X
The key is the AND a!=X part. This gives you the benefits of the UNION (a.k.a., UNION
DISTINCT ) command, while avoiding much of its performance hit.

Given the following tables:


SELECT * FROM users ;

user_id username
1 John Doe
2 Jane Don
3 Alice Jones
4 Lisa Romero

SELECT * FROM training_details;

user_training_id user_id training_id training_date


1 1 1 "2015-08-02"
2 2 1 "2015-08-03"
3 3 2 "2015-08-02"
4 4 2 "2015-08-04"
5 2 2 "2015-08-03"
6 1 1 "2015-08-02"
7 3 2 "2015-08-04"
8 4 3 "2015-08-03"
9 1 4 "2015-08-03"
10 3 1 "2015-08-02"
11 4 2 "2015-08-04"
12 3 2 "2015-08-02"
13 1 1 "2015-08-02"
14 4 3 "2015-08-03"

Write a query to to get the list of users who took the a


training lesson more than once in the same day, grouped
by user and training lesson, each ordered from the most
recent lesson date to oldest date.
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SELECT
u.user_id,
username,
training_id,
training_date,
count ( user_training_id ) AS count
FROM users u JOIN training_details t ON t.user_id = u.user_id
GROUP BY u.user_id,
username,
training_id,
training_date
HAVING count ( user_training_id ) > 1
ORDER BY training_date DESC ;
user_id username training_id training_date count
4 Lisa Romero 2 August, 04 2015 00:00:00 2
4 Lisa Romero 3 August, 03 2015 00:00:00 2
1 John Doe 1 August, 02 2015 00:00:00 3
3 Alice Jones 2 August, 02 2015 00:00:00 2

What is an execution plan? When would you use it? How


would you view the execution plan?
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An execution plan is basically a road map that graphically or textually shows the data
retrieval methods chosen by the SQL server’s query optimizer for a stored procedure or
ad hoc query. Execution plans are very useful for helping a developer understand and
analyze the performance characteristics of a query or stored procedure, since the plan
is used to execute the query or stored procedure.

In many SQL systems, a textual execution plan can be obtained using a keyword such
as EXPLAIN , and visual representations can often be obtained as well. In Microsoft SQL
Server, the Query Analyzer has an option called “Show Execution Plan” (located on the
Query drop down menu). If this option is turned on, it will display query execution plans
in a separate window when a query is run.

List and explain each of the ACID properties that


collectively guarantee that database transactions are
processed reliably.
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ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a set of properties that


guarantee that database transactions are processed reliably. They are defined as
follows:
 Atomicity. Atomicity requires that each transaction be “all or nothing”: if one part
of the transaction fails, the entire transaction fails, and the database state is left
unchanged. An atomic system must guarantee atomicity in each and every
situation, including power failures, errors, and crashes.
 Consistency. The consistency property ensures that any transaction will bring
the database from one valid state to another. Any data written to the database
must be valid according to all defined rules, including constraints, cascades,
triggers, and any combination thereof.
 Isolation. The isolation property ensures that the concurrent execution of
transactions results in a system state that would be obtained if transactions
were executed serially, i.e., one after the other. Providing isolation is the main
goal of concurrency control. Depending on concurrency control method (i.e. if it
uses strict - as opposed to relaxed - serializability), the effects of an incomplete
transaction might not even be visible to another transaction.
 Durability. Durability means that once a transaction has been committed, it will
remain so, even in the event of power loss, crashes, or errors. In a relational
database, for instance, once a group of SQL statements execute, the results
need to be stored permanently (even if the database crashes immediately
thereafter). To defend against power loss, transactions (or their effects) must be
recorded in a non-volatile memory.

Given a table dbo.users where the column user_id is a


unique numeric identifier, how can you efficiently select
the first 100 odd user_id values from the table?
(Assume the table contains well over 100 records with
odd user_id values.)
Hide answer

SELECT TOP 100 user_id FROM dbo.users WHERE user_id % 2 = 1 ORDER BY user_id

How can you select all the even number records from a
table? All the odd number records?
Hide answer
To select all the even number records from a table:
Select * from table where id % 2 = 0

To select all the odd number records from a table:


Select * from table where id % 2 != 0

What are the NVL and the NVL2 functions in SQL? How do
they differ?
Hide answer

Both the NVL(exp1, exp2) and NVL2(exp1, exp2, exp3) functions check the
value exp1 to see if it is null.
With the NVL(exp1, exp2) function, if exp1 is not null, then the value of exp1 is
returned; otherwise, the value of exp2 is returned, but case to the same data type as
that of exp1 .
With the NVL2(exp1, exp2, exp3) function, if exp1 is not null, then exp2 is returned;
otherwise, the value of exp3 is returned.
What is the difference between
the RANK() and DENSE_RANK() functions? Provide an
example.
Hide answer

The only difference between the RANK() and DENSE_RANK() functions is in cases where
there is a “tie”; i.e., in cases where multiple values in a set have the same ranking. In
such cases, RANK() will assign non-consecutive “ranks” to the values in the set
(resulting in gaps between the integer ranking values when there is a tie),
whereas DENSE_RANK() will assign consecutive ranks to the values in the set (so there
will be no gaps between the integer ranking values in the case of a tie).
For example, consider the set {25, 25, 50, 75, 75, 100} . For such a set, RANK() will
return {1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 6} (note that the values 2 and 5 are skipped),
whereas DENSE_RANK() will return {1,1,2,3,3,4} .

What is the difference between


the WHERE and HAVING clauses?
Hide answer
When GROUP BY is not used, the WHERE and HAVING clauses are essentially equivalent.
However, when GROUP BY is used:
 The WHERE clause is used to filter records from a result. The filtering occurs

before any groupings are made.


 The HAVING clause is used to filter values from a group (i.e., to check conditions
after aggregation into groups has been performed).

Suppose we have a Customer table containing the


following data:
CustomerID CustomerName
1 Prashant Kaurav
2 Ashish Jha
3 Ankit Varma
4 Vineet Kumar
5 Rahul Kumar

Write a single SQL statement to concatenate all the


customer names into the following single semicolon-
separated string:
Prashant Kaurav; Ashish Jha; Ankit Varma; Vineet Kumar; Rahul Kumar
Hide answer
SELECT CustomerName+ '; '
From Customer
For XML PATH ( '' )
This is close, but will have an undesired trailing ;. One way of fixing that could be:
SELECT top 1
LTRIM ( STUFF (( SELECT & #39;; &#39; + c1.CustomerName FROM Customer c1 FOR XML

PATH (&#39;&#39;)), 1, 1,&#39;&#39;)) as SSV


from Customer c2;

In PostgreSQL one can also use this syntax to achieve the fully correct result:

SELECT array_to_string(array_agg(CustomerName), '; ' :: text )


FROM Customer

Given a table Employee having


columns empName and empId , what will be the result of the
SQL query below?
select empName from Employee order by 2 desc;
Hide answer
“Order by 2” is only valid when there are at least two columns being used in select
statement. However, in this query, even though the Employee table has 2 columns, the
query is only selecting 1 column name, so “Order by 2” will cause the statement to
throw an error while executing the above sql query.

What will be the output of the below query, given an


Employee table having 10 records?
BEGIN TRAN
TRUNCATE TABLE Employees

ROLLBACK
SELECT * FROM Employees
Hide answer

This query will return 10 records as TRUNCATE was executed in the


transaction. TRUNCATE does not itself keep a log but BEGIN TRANSACTION keeps track of
the TRUNCATE command.

1. What is the difference between single-row functions


and multiple-row functions?
2. What is the group by clause used for?
Hide answer

1. Single-row functions work with single row at a time. Multiple-row functions work
with data of multiple rows at a time.
2. The group by clause combines all those records that have identical values in a
particular field or any group of fields.

What is the difference between char and varchar2 ?


Hide answer

When stored in a database, varchar2 uses only the allocated space. E.g. if you have
a varchar2(1999) and put 50 bytes in the table, it will use 52 bytes.
But when stored in a database, char always uses the maximum length and is blank-
padded. E.g. if you have char(1999) and put 50 bytes in the table, it will consume 2000
bytes.
Write an SQL query to display the text CAPONE as:
C
A
P
O
N
E

Or in other words, an SQL query to transpose text.


Hide answer

Declare @a nvarchar ( 100 )= 'capone' ;


Declare @ length INT ;
Declare @i INT = 1 ;
SET @ lenght = LEN (@a)
while @i<=@ length

BEGIN
print( substring (@a,@i, 1 ));
set @i=@i+ 1 ;

END
In Oracle SQL, this can be done as follows:

SELECT SUBSTR ( 'CAPONE' , LEVEL , 1 )


FROM DUAL CONNECT BY LEVEL <= LENGTH ( 'CAPONE' );
Can we insert a row for identity column implicitly?
Hide answer

Yes, like so:

SET IDENTITY_INSERT TABLE1 ON

INSERT INTO TABLE1 ( ID , NAME )


SELECT ID , NAME FROM TEMPTB1

SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF

Given this table:


Testdb=# Select * FROM "Test"."EMP";

ID
----
1
2
3
4
5
(5 rows)

What will be the output of below snippet?


Select SUM ( 1 ) FROM "Test" . "EMP" ;
Select SUM ( 2 ) FROM "Test" . "EMP" ;
Select SUM ( 3 ) FROM "Test" . "EMP" ;
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5
10
15

Table is as follows:
I
D C1 C2 C3

1 Red Yellow Blue

2 NULL Red Green

3 Yellow NULL Violet

Print the rows which have ‘Yellow’ in one of the columns


C1, C2, or C3, but without using OR .
Hide answer
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE 'Yellow' IN (C1, C2, C3)

Write a query to insert/update Col2 ’s values to look


exactly opposite to Col1 ’s values.
Col1 Col2

1 0

0 1

0 1

0 1

1 0

0 1

1 0

1 0
Hide answer
update table set col2 = case when col1 = 1 then 0 else 1 end

Or if the type is numeric:

update table set col2 = 1 - col1

How do you get the last id without the max function?


Hide answer

In MySQL:

select id from table order by id desc limit 1


In SQL Server:

select top 1 id from table order by id desc

What is the difference between IN and EXISTS ?


Hide answer

IN :

 Works on List result set

 Doesn’t work on subqueries resulting in Virtual tables with multiple columns

 Compares every value in the result list

 Performance is comparatively SLOW for larger resultset of subquery


EXISTS :

 Works on Virtual tables

 Is used with co-related queries

 Exits comparison when match is found

 Performance is comparatively FAST for larger resultset of subquery

Suppose in a table, seven records are there.


The column is an identity column.
Now the client wants to insert a record after the identity
value 7 with its identity value starting from 10 .
Is it possible? If so, how? If not, why not?
Hide answer
Yes, it is possible, using a DBCC command:

create table tableA


( id int identity ,
name nvarchar ( 50 )
)
insert into tableA values ( 'ram' )
insert into tableA values ( 'rahim' )
insert into tableA values ( 'roja' )
insert into tableA values ( 'rahman' )
insert into tableA values ( 'rani' )
insert into tableA values ( 'raja' )
insert into tableA values ( 'raga' )
select * From tableA
DBCC CHECKIDENT(tableA,RESEED, 9 )
insert into tableA values ( 'roli' )
insert into tableA values ( 'rosy' )
insert into tableA values ( 'raka' )
insert into tableA values ( 'rahul' )
insert into tableA values ( 'rihan' )
insert into tableA values ( 'bala' )
insert into tableA values ( 'gala' )

How can you use a CTE to return the fifth highest


(or Nth highest) salary from a table?
Hide answer

Declare @N int
set @N = 5 ;
WITH CTE AS
(
SELECT Name , Salary, EmpID, RN = ROW_NUMBER()
OVER ( ORDER BY Salary DESC )
FROM Employee
)
SELECT Name , Salary, EmpID
FROM CTE
WHERE RN = @N

Imagine a single column in a table that is populated with


either a single digit (0-9) or a single character (a-z, A-Z).
Write a SQL query to print ‘Fizz’ for a numeric value or
‘Buzz’ for alphabetical value for all values in that column.
Example:
['d', 'x', 'T', 8, 'a', 9, 6, 2, 'V']
…should output:
['Buzz', 'Buzz', 'Buzz', 'Fizz', 'Buzz','Fizz',
'Fizz', 'Fizz', 'Buzz']
Hide answer

SELECT col , case when upper ( col ) = lower ( col ) then 'Fizz' else
'Buzz' end as FizzBuzz from table ;

How do you get the Nth-highest salary from the Employee


table without a subquery or CTE?
Hide answer

SELECT salary from Employee order by salary DESC LIMIT 2,1

This will give the third-highest salary from the Employee table. Accordingly we can find
out Nth salary using LIMIT (N-1),1 .
But MS SQL Server doesn’t support that syntax, so in that case:

SELECT salary from Employee order by salary DESC

OFFSET 2 ROWS
FETCH NEXT 1 ROW ONLY
OFFSET ’s parameter corresponds to the (N-1) above.
Given the following table named A :
x
------
2
-2
4
-4
-3
0
2

Write a single query to calculate the sum of all positive


values of x and he sum of all negative values of x .
Hide answer

select sum(case when x>0 then x else 0 end)sum_pos,sum(case when x<0 then x
else 0 end)sum_neg from a;

Given the table mass_table :


weight

5.67

34.567

365.253

34

Write a query that produces the output:


weight kg gms

5.67 5 67

34.567 34 567

365.253 365 253

34 34 0
Hide answer

select weight, trunc(weight) as kg, nvl( substr (weight - trunc(weight), 2 ),


0 ) as gms
from mass_table;

Consider the Employee table below.


Emp_Id Emp_name Salary Manager_Id

10 Anil 50000 18

11 Vikas 75000 16

12 Nisha 40000 18

13 Nidhi 60000 17

14 Priya 80000 18

15 Mohit 45000 18

16 Rajesh 90000 –

17 Raman 55000 16

18 Santosh 65000 17

Write a query to generate below output:


Manager_Id Manager Average_Salary_Under_Manager

16 Rajesh 65000

17 Raman 62500

18 Santosh 53750
Hide answer

select b.emp_id as "Manager_Id" ,


b.emp_name as "Manager" ,
avg (a.salary) as "Average_Salary_Under_Manager"
from Employee a,
Employee b
where a.manager_id = b.emp_id
group by b.emp_id, b.emp_name
order by b.emp_id;

How do you copy data from one table to another table ?


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INSERT INTO table2 (column1, column2, column3, ...)


SELECT column1, column2, column3, ...
FROM table1
WHERE condition;

Find the SQL statement below that is equal to the


following: SELECT name FROM customer WHERE state =
'VA';
1. SELECT name IN customer WHERE state IN ('VA');
2. SELECT name IN customer WHERE state = 'VA';
3. SELECT name IN customer WHERE state = 'V';
4. SELECT name FROM customer WHERE state IN ('VA');
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4. SELECT name FROM customer WHERE state IN ('VA');

How to find a duplicate record?


1. duplicate records with one field
2. duplicate records with more than one field
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1. duplicate records with one field

2. SELECT name, COUNT(email)

3. FROM users

4. GROUP BY email

5. HAVING COUNT(email) > 1

6. duplicate records with more than one field

7. SELECT name, email, COUNT(*)

8. FROM users

9. GROUP BY name, email

HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

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