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Consolidated SQL Interview Questions

SQL interview questions

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SQL Interview Questions

This document contains a combined list of SQL questions extracted from the provided
images, categorized for clarity.

Query Writing & Data Manipulation


1.​ Write a query to find the second highest salary in an employee table.
2.​ Fetch all employees whose names contain the letter "a" exactly twice.
3.​ How do you retrieve only duplicate records from a table?
4.​ Write a query to calculate the running total of sales by date.
5.​ Find employees who earn more than the average salary in their department.
6.​ Write a query to find the most frequently occurring value in a column.
7.​ Fetch records where the date is within the last 7 days from today.
8.​ Write a query to count how many employees share the same salary.
9.​ How do you fetch the top 3 records for each group in a table?
10.​Retrieve products that were never sold (hint: use LEFT JOIN).
11.​ Retrieve customers who made their first purchase in the last 6 months.
12.​How do you pivot a table to convert rows into columns?
13.​Write a query to calculate the percentage change in sales month-over-month.
14.​Find the median salary of employees in a table.
15.​Fetch all users who logged in consecutively for 3 days or more.
16.​Write a query to delete duplicate rows while keeping one occurrence.
17.​Create a query to calculate the ratio of sales between two categories.
18.​How would you implement a recursive query to generate a hierarchical structure?
19.​Write a query to find gaps in sequential numbering within a table.
20.​Split a comma-separated string into individual rows using SQL.
21.​Rank products by sales in descending order for each region.
22.​Fetch all employees whose salaries fall within the top 10% of their department.
23.​Identify orders placed during business hours (e.g., 9 AM to 6 PM).
24.​Write a query to get the count of users active on both weekdays and weekends.
25.​Retrieve customers who made purchases across at least three different
categories.
26.​Write retention query in SQL.
27.​Write year-on-year growth query in SQL.
28.​Write a query for cumulative sum in SQL.

SQL Concepts & Definitions


29.​Explain the order of execution of SQL clauses.
30.​What is the difference between WHERE and HAVING clauses?
31.​What is the use of the GROUP BY clause?
32.​Explain all types of joins in SQL (e.g., INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL OUTER).
33.​What are triggers in SQL?
34.​What is a stored procedure in SQL?
35.​Explain all types of window functions (e.g., RANK, ROW_NUMBER, DENSE_RANK,
LEAD, LAG).
36.​What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE commands?
37.​What are the differences between DML (Data Manipulation Language), DDL (Data
Definition Language), and DCL (Data Control Language)?
38.​What are aggregate functions and when are they used? Provide examples.
39.​Which is generally faster: CTE (Common Table Expression) or Subquery? Why?
40.​What are constraints in SQL? List different types of constraints.
41.​What are Keys in SQL? Explain different types (Primary, Foreign, Unique, etc.).
42.​Explain different types of Operators in SQL.
43.​What are Views in SQL?
44.​What is the difference between VARCHAR and NVARCHAR data types? (Similarly,
CHAR vs NCHAR?)
45.​What is an index in SQL? Explain its purpose and different types.
46.​List and explain the different types of relationships in SQL databases
(One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-Many).
47.​Differentiate between UNION and UNION ALL operators.
48.​How many types of clauses are there in SQL? (This might refer to main clauses
like SELECT, FROM, WHERE, etc.)
49.​What is the difference between a Primary Key and a Secondary Key (or Alternate
Key)?
50.​What is the difference between a Function and a Stored Procedure in SQL?
51.​Can variables be used in views?
52.​What are the limitations of using views?

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