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Top 80 + SQL Query Interview Questions and Answers with

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Frequently asked basic and advanced Top 80 + SQL Queries Interview Questions and Answers with
Examples for Business Analyst, Data Analyst, DBA, Freshers and Experienced Java, PHP, Dot Net
programmers in Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL Database.

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Are you an Experienced Programmer or Database Administrator ? If so, visit our Interview
Questions on Advanced and Complex SQL Query section of this article. For each question, if the SQL
Commands differ for Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server Databases, specific queries with respect to a
database is provided. If the answers are same for all databases, only one query is specified. Interview
Questions on SQL are based on following two tables, Employee Table and Employee Incentive Table.

Table Name : Employee

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Employee_id First_name Last_name Salary

Joining_date

Department

John

Abraham

1000000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Banking

Michael

Clarke

800000

01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance

Roy

Thomas

700000

01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Banking

Tom

Jose

600000

01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance

Jerry

Pinto

650000

01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance

Philip

Mathew

750000

01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Services

TestName1

123

650000

01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Services

TestName2

Lname%

600000

01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance

Table Name : Incentives

Employee_ref_id Incentive_date Incentive_amount

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01-FEB-13

5000

01-FEB-13

3000

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01-FEB-13

4000

01-JAN-13

4500

01-JAN-13

3500

SQL Queries Interview Questions and Answers on "SQL Select"

1. Get all employee details from the employee table
Select * from employee

2. Get First_Name,Last_Name from employee table

Select first_name, Last_Name from employee

3. Get First_Name from employee table using alias name Employee Name
Select first_name Employee Name from employee

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4. Get First_Name from employee table in upper case

Select upper(FIRST_NAME) from EMPLOYEE

5. Get First_Name from employee table in lower case

Select lower(FIRST_NAME) from EMPLOYEE

6. Get unique DEPARTMENT from employee table

select distinct DEPARTMENT from EMPLOYEE

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7. Select first 3 characters of FIRST_NAME from EMPLOYEE

Oracle Equivalent of SQL Server SUBSTRING is SUBSTR, Query : select
substr(FIRST_NAME,0,3) from employee

SQL Server Equivalent of Oracle SUBSTR is SUBSTRING, Query : select

substring(FIRST_NAME,1,3) from employee

MySQL Server Equivalent of Oracle SUBSTR is SUBSTRING. In MySQL start position is 1,

Query : select substring(FIRST_NAME,1,3) from employee

8. Get position of 'o' in name 'John' from employee table

Oracle Equivalent of SQL Server CHARINDEX is INSTR, Query : Select instr(FIRST_NAME,'o')
from employee where first_name='John'

SQL Server Equivalent of Oracle INSTR is CHARINDEX, Query: Select

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CHARINDEX('o',FIRST_NAME,0) from employee where first_name='John'

MySQL Server Equivalent of Oracle INSTR is LOCATE, Query: Select

LOCATE('o',FIRST_NAME) from employee where first_name='John'

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

11. Get length of FIRST_NAME from employee table

Oracle,MYSQL Equivalent of SQL Server Len is Length , Query :select length(FIRST_NAME)
from employee

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SQL Server Equivalent of Oracle,MYSQL Length is Len, Query :select len(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
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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

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