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Inner Join and left join are the most commonly used joins in real time projects.
We will talk about left join in a later article. Now, let us understand Inner join
with an example.

Create 2 tables Company and Candidate. Use the script below to create these
tables and populate them. CompanyId column in Candidate Table is a foreign key
referencing CompanyId in Company Table.

CREATE TABLE Company
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    CompanyId TinyInt Identity Primary Key,
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    CompanyName Nvarchar(50) NULL
)
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Basic SQL Server Interview Questions INSERT Candidate VALUES('Kiran',NULL)
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What is the difference between

Having and Where clause

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Temporary Table and a Table Variable

What is the use of COALESCE in SQL

Server

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triggers If you want to select all the rows from the LEFT table(In our example Candidate
Table) that have a non null foreign key value(CompanyId in Candidate Table is
Difference between User Defined the foreign key) then we use INNER JOIN. A query involving an INNER JOIN for
Function and Stored Procedure the Candidate and Company Table is shown below. 

SQL Server Interview Questions on SELECT Cand.CandidateId, Cand.FullName, Cand.CompanyId,

Views ‐ Part 1 Comp.CompanyId, Comp.CompanyName
FROM Candidate Cand
SQL Server Interview Questions on INNER JOIN Company Comp
Views ‐ Part 2 ON Cand.CompanyId = Comp.CompanyId

Basic SQL Server Interview Questions If we run the above query the output will be as shown in the image below. If you

on Joins look at the out put, we only got 5 rows. We did not get the 2 rows which has
NULL value in the CompanyId column. So an INNER JOIN would get all the rows
Explain Inner Join with an example from the LEFT Table that has non null foreign key value.

Explain Left Outer Join with an

example

Explain Right Outer Join with an

example

Explain Full Outer Join with an

example
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Explain Self Join with an example
Instead of using INNER JOIN keyword we can just use JOIN keyword as shown
What is the difference between Index below. JOIN or INNER JOIN means the same.
Scan and Index Seek
SELECT Cand.CandidateId, Cand.FullName, Cand.CompanyId,
Write a SQL Query to delete from a Comp.CompanyId, Comp.CompanyName
table that is involved in a SQL join FROM Candidate Cand
JOIN Company Comp
What are the advantages of using ON Cand.CompanyId = Comp.CompanyId
stored procedures
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