SQL Query Interview Questions and Answers With Examples
SQL Query Interview Questions and Answers With Examples
SQL Query Interview Questions and Answers With Examples
3. Get First_Name from employee table using alias name Employee Name
Select first_name Employee_Name from employee
9. Get FIRST_NAME from employee table after removing white spaces from right side
select RTRIM(FIRST_NAME) from employee
10. Get FIRST_NAME from employee table after removing white spaces from left side
select LTRIM(FIRST_NAME) from employee
12. Get First_Name from employee table after replacing 'o' with '$'
select REPLACE(FIRST_NAME,'o','$') from employee
13. Get First_Name and Last_Name as single column from employee table separated by a '_'
Oracle Equivalent of MySQL concat is '||',
Query : Select FIRST_NAME|| '_' ||LAST_NAME from EMPLOYEE
SQL Server Equivalent of MySQL concat is '+',
Query : Select FIRST_NAME + '_' +LAST_NAME from EMPLOYEE
MySQL Equivalent of Oracle '||' is concat,
Query : Select concat(FIRST_NAME,'_',LAST_NAME) from EMPLOYEE
14. Get FIRST_NAME ,Joining year, Joining Month and Joining Date from employee table
SQL Queries in Oracle,
Select FIRST_NAME, to_char(joining_date,'YYYY') JoinYear ,
to_char(joining_date,'Mon'), to_char(joining_date,'dd') from EMPLOYEE
SQL Queries in SQL Server,
select SUBSTRING (convert(varchar,joining_date,103),7,4),SUBSTRING
(convert(varchar,joining_date,100),1,3),SUBSTRING
(convert(varchar,joining_date,100),5,2) from EMPLOYEE
SQL Queries in MySQL,
select year(joining_date),month(joining_date),DAY(joining_date)from EMPLOYEE
15. Get all employee details from the employee table order by First_Name Ascending
Select * from employee order by FIRST_NAME asc
16. Get all employee details from the employee table order by First_Name descending
Select * from employee order by FIRST_NAME desc
17. Get all employee details from the employee table order by First_Name Ascending and
Salary descending
Select * from employee order by FIRST_NAME asc,SALARY desc
19. Get employee details from employee table whose employee name are John and Roy
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME in ('John','Roy')
20. Get employee details from employee table whose employee name are not John and Roy
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME not in ('John','Roy')
22. Get employee details from employee table whose first name contains 'o'
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like '%o%'
23. Get employee details from employee table whose first name ends with 'n'
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like '%n'
25. Get employee details from employee table whose first name starts with 'J' and name
contains 4 letters
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME like 'J___' (Underscores)
26. Get employee details from employee table whose Salary greater than 600000
Select * from EMPLOYEE where Salary >600000
27. Get employee details from employee table whose Salary less than 800000
Select * from EMPLOYEE where Salary <800000
28. Get employee details from employee table whose Salary between 500000 and 800000
Select * from EMPLOYEE where Salary between 500000 and 800000
29. Get employee details from employee table whose name is 'John' and 'Michael'
Select * from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME in ('John','Michae);
31. Get employee details from employee table whose joining month is January
SQL Queries in Oracle,
Select * from EMPLOYEE where to_char(joining_date,'MM')='01' or Select * from
EMPLOYEE where to_char(joining_date,'Mon')='Jan'
SQL Queries in SQL Server,
Select * from EMPLOYEE where
SUBSTRING(convert(varchar,joining_date,100),1,3)='Jan'
SQL Queries in MySQL,
Select * from EMPLOYEE where month(joining_date)='01'
32. Get employee details from employee table who joined before January 1st 2013
SQL Queries in Oracle,
Select * from EMPLOYEE where JOINING_DATE <to_date('01/01/2013','dd/mm/yyyy')
SQL Queries in SQL Server (Format - MM/DD/YYYY),
Select * from EMPLOYEE where joining_date <'01/01/2013'
SQL Queries in MySQL (Format - YYYY-DD-MM),
Select * from EMPLOYEE where joining_date <'2013-01-01'
33. Get employee details from employee table who joined after January 31st
SQL Queries in Oracle,
Select * from EMPLOYEE where JOINING_DATE >to_date('31/01/2013','dd/mm/yyyy')
SQL Queries in SQL Server and MySQL (Format - MM/DD/YYYY),
Select * from EMPLOYEE where joining_date >'01/31/2013'
SQL Queries in MySQL (Format - YYYY-DD-MM),
Select * from EMPLOYEE where joining_date >'2013-01-31'
37. Get difference between JOINING_DATE and INCENTIVE_DATE from employee and
incentives table
Select FIRST_NAME, INCENTIVE_DATE - JOINING_DATE from employee a inner join
incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
40. Get Last Name from employee table after replacing special character with white space
SQL Queries in Oracle, Select translate (LAST_NAME,'%',' ') from employee
SQL Queries in SQL Server and MySQL, Select REPLACE (LAST_NAME,'%',' ') from
employee
42. Get department,total salary with respect to a department from employee table order by
total salary descending
Select DEPARTMENT,sum(SALARY) Total_Salary from employee group by DEPARTMENT
order by Total_Salary descending
44. Get department wise average salary from employee table order by salaryascending
select DEPARTMENT,avg(SALARY) AvgSalary from employee group by DEPARTMENT order
by AvgSalary asc
45. Get department wise maximum salary from employee table order by salary ascending
select DEPARTMENT,max(SALARY) MaxSalary from employee group by DEPARTMENT order
by MaxSalary asc
46. Get department wise minimum salary from employee table order by salary ascending
select DEPARTMENT,min(SALARY) MinSalary from employee group by DEPARTMENT order
by MinSalary asc
47. Select no of employees joined with respect to year and month from employee table
SQL Queries in Oracle, select to_char (JOINING_DATE,'YYYY') Join_Year,to_char
(JOINING_DATE,'MM') Join_Month,count(*) Total_Emp from employee group by
to_char(JOINING_DATE,'YYYY'),to_char(JOINING_DATE,'MM')
48. Select department,total salary with respect to a department from employee table where
total salary greater than 800000 order by Total_Salary descending
Select DEPARTMENT,sum(SALARY) Total_Salary from employee group by DEPARTMENT
having sum(SALARY) >800000 order by Total_Salary desc
51. Get Employee ID's of those employees who didn't receive incentives without using sub
query ?
Select EMPLOYEE_ID from EMPLOYEE
MINUS
select EMPLOYEE_REF_ID from INCENTIVES
Explanation: To filter out certain information we use MINUS command. What MINUS Command
odes is that, it returns all the results from the first query, that are not part of the second query. In our
example, first three employees received the incentives. So query will return employee id's 4 to 8.
52. Select 20 % of salary from John, 10% of Salary for Roy and for other 15 % of salary from
employee table
SELECT FIRST_NAME, CASE FIRST_NAME WHEN 'John' THEN SALARY * .2 WHEN 'Roy' THEN
SALARY * .10 ELSE SALARY * .15 END "Deduced_Amount" FROM EMPLOYEE
Explanation: Here, we are using "SQL CASE" statement to achieve the desired results. After case
statement, we had to specify the column on which filtering is applied. In our case it is
"FIRST_NAME". And in then condition, specify the name of filter like John, Roy etc. To handle
conditions outside our filter, use else block where every one other than John and Roy enters.
53. Select Banking as 'Bank Dept', Insurance as 'Insurance Dept' and Services as 'Services
Dept' from employee table
SQL Queries in Oracle, SELECT distinct DECODE (DEPARTMENT, 'Banking', 'Bank
Dept', 'Insurance', 'Insurance Dept', 'Services', 'Services Dept') FROM EMPLOYEE
SQL Queries in SQL Server and MySQL, SELECT case DEPARTMENT when 'Banking' then
'Bank Dept' when 'Insurance' then 'Insurance Dept' when 'Services' then
'Services Dept' end FROM EMPLOYEE
Explanation: Here "DECODE" keyword is used to specify the alias name. In oracle we had specify,
Column Name followed by Actual Name and Alias Name as arguments. In SQL Server and MySQL,
we can use the earlier switch case statements for alias names.
54. Delete employee data from employee table who got incentives in incentive table
Delete from EMPLOYEE where EMPLOYEE_ID in (select EMPLOYEE_REF_ID from
INCENTIVES)
Explanation: Trick about this question is that we can't delete data from a table based on some
condition in another table by joining them. Here to delete multiple entries from EMPLOYEE table,
we need to use Subquery. Entries will get deleted based on the result of Subquery.
55. Insert into employee table Last Name with " ' " (Single Quote - Special Character)
Tip - Use another single quote before special character
Insert into employee (LAST_NAME) values ('Test''')
56. Select Last Name from employee table which contain only numbers
Select * from EMPLOYEE where lower(LAST_NAME)=upper(LAST_NAME)
Explanation : In order to achieve the desired result, we use "ASCII" property of the database. If we
get results for a column using Lower and Upper commands, ASCII of both results will be same for
numbers. If there is any alphabets in the column, results will differ.
57. Write a query to rank employees based on their incentives for a month
select FIRST_NAME,INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY
INCENTIVE_DATE ORDER BY INCENTIVE_AMOUNT DESC) AS Rank from EMPLOYEE a,
INCENTIVES b where a.EMPLOYEE_ID=b.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
Explanation : In order to rank employees based on their rank for a month, "DENSE_RANK"
keyword is used. Here partition by keyword helps us to sort the column with which filtering is done.
Rank is provided to the column specified in the order by statement. The above query ranks
employees with respect to their incentives for a given month.
58. Update incentive table where employee name is 'John'
update INCENTIVES set INCENTIVE_AMOUNT='9000' where EMPLOYEE_REF_ID=(select
EMPLOYEE_ID from EMPLOYEE where FIRST_NAME='John' )
Explanation : We need to join Employee and Incentive Table for updating the incentive amount.
But for update statement joining query wont work. We need to use sub query to update the data in
the incentive table. SQL Query is as shown below
60. Select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for those
employees who have incentives and incentive amount greater than 3000
Select FIRST_NAME,INCENTIVE_AMOUNT from employee a inner join incentives B on
A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID and INCENTIVE_AMOUNT >3000
61. Select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for all employes
even if they didn't get incentives
Select FIRST_NAME,INCENTIVE_AMOUNT from employee a left join incentives B on
A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
62. Select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for all employees
even if they didn't get incentives and set incentive amount as 0 for those employees who didn't
get incentives.
SQL Queries in Oracle, Select FIRST_NAME,nvl(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,0) from employee a
left join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
SQL Queries in SQL Server, Select FIRST_NAME, ISNULL(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,0) from
employee a left join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
SQL Queries in MySQL, Select FIRST_NAME, IFNULL(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,0) from
employee a left join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
63. Select first_name, incentive amount from employee and incentives table for all employees
who got incentives using left join
SQL Queries in Oracle, Select FIRST_NAME,nvl(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,0) from employee a
right join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
SQL Queries in SQL Server, Select FIRST_NAME, isnull(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,0) from
employee a right join incentives B on A.EMPLOYEE_ID=B.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID
64. Select max incentive with respect to employee from employee and incentives table using
sub query
SQL Queries in Oracle, select DEPARTMENT,(select nvl(max(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT),0)
from INCENTIVES where EMPLOYEE_REF_ID=EMPLOYEE_ID) Max_incentive from EMPLOYEE
SQL Queries in SQL Server, select DEPARTMENT,(select
ISNULL(max(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT),0) from INCENTIVES where
EMPLOYEE_REF_ID=EMPLOYEE_ID) Max_incentive from EMPLOYEE
SQL Queries in SQL Server, select DEPARTMENT,(select IFNULL
(max(INCENTIVE_AMOUNT),0) from INCENTIVES where EMPLOYEE_REF_ID=EMPLOYEE_ID)
Max_incentive from EMPLOYEE
76. Write Sql Syntax to create EMPLOYEE_REF_ID in INCENTIVES table as foreign key
with respect to EMPLOYEE_ID in employee table
ALTER TABLE INCENTIVES ADD CONSTRAINT INCENTIVES_FK FOREIGN KEY
(EMPLOYEE_REF_ID) REFERENCES EMPLOYEE(EMPLOYEE_ID)
79. Write Sql syntax to create Oracle Trigger before insert of each row in employee table
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER EMPLOYEE_ROW_ID_TRIGGER
BEFORE INSERT ON EMPLOYEE FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
seq_no number(12);
BEGIN
select EMPLOYEE_ID_SEQ.nextval into seq_no from dual ;
:new EMPLOYEE_ID :=seq_no;
END;
SHOW ERRORS;