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Most Frequently Asked SQL Interview Questions With Their Answers

The document contains a list of frequently asked SQL interview questions along with their corresponding SQL queries and explanations. It covers various topics including finding top customers, nth highest salary, total quantity sold per month, employees with multiple managers, top products by sales quantity, second most recent order dates, highest paid employees in each department, and products with the highest revenue. Each question is followed by a SQL query demonstrating how to achieve the desired results.

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Most Frequently Asked SQL Interview Questions With Their Answers

The document contains a list of frequently asked SQL interview questions along with their corresponding SQL queries and explanations. It covers various topics including finding top customers, nth highest salary, total quantity sold per month, employees with multiple managers, top products by sales quantity, second most recent order dates, highest paid employees in each department, and products with the highest revenue. Each question is followed by a SQL query demonstrating how to achieve the desired results.

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Most frequently asked SQL interview questions with their answers:-

1. Write a SQL query to find the top 5 customers with the highest total purchase amount. Assume
you have two tables: Customers (CustomerID, Name) and Orders (OrderID, CustomerID, Amount).

SELECT c.CustomerID, c.Name

, SUM(o.Amount) AS TotalPurchase
FROM Customers c
JOIN Orders o ON c.CustomerID = o.CustomerID
GROUP BY c.CustomerID, c.Name

ORDER BY TotalPurchase DESC


LIMIT 5;

2. Write a query to find the nth highest salary from a table Employees with columns EmployeeID,
Name, and Salary.

SELECT DISTINCT Salary


FROM Employees
ORDER BY Salary DESC
LIMIT 1 OFFSET n-1;

Replace `n` with the desired rank (e.g., 2 for the second highest).

3. Given a table Sales with columns SaleID, ProductID, SaleDate, and Quantity, write a query to find
the total quantity sold for each product per month.

SELECT ProductID, DATE_TRUNC('month', SaleDate) AS Month, SUM(Quantity) AS TotalQuantity


FROM Sales
GROUP BY ProductID, Month
ORDER BY ProductID, Month;

4. Write a SQL query to find all employees who have more than one manager. Assume you have a
table Employees (EmployeeID, Name, ManagerID).

SELECT EmployeeID, Name


FROM Employees
GROUP BY EmployeeID, Name
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT ManagerID) > 1;

5. Given a table Orders with columns OrderID, CustomerID, OrderDate, and a table OrderDetails with
columns OrderID, ProductID, Quantity, write a query to find the top 3 products with the highest sales
quantity.
SELECT ProductID, SUM(Quantity) AS TotalQuantity
FROM OrderDetails
GROUP BY ProductID
ORDER BY TotalQuantity DESC
LIMIT 3;

6. Write a SQL query to find the second most recent order date for each customer from a table
Orders (OrderID, CustomerID, OrderDate).

SELECT CustomerID, MAX(OrderDate) AS SecondRecentOrderDate


FROM Orders
WHERE OrderDate < (SELECT MAX(OrderDate) FROM Orders o2 WHERE o2.CustomerID =
Orders.CustomerID)
GROUP BY CustomerID;

7. Given a table Employees with columns EmployeeID, Name, DepartmentID, Salary, write a query to
find the highest paid employee in each department.

SELECT DepartmentID, EmployeeID, Name, Salary


FROM Employees e1
WHERE Salary = (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employees e2 WHERE e2.DepartmentID =
e1.DepartmentID);

8. Given a table Products with columns ProductID, Name, Price, and a table Sales with columns
SaleID, ProductID, Quantity, write a query to find the product with the highest revenue.

SELECT p.ProductID, p.Name

, SUM(p.Price * s.Quantity) AS Revenue


FROM Products p
JOIN Sales s ON p.ProductID = s.ProductID
GROUP BY p.ProductID, p.Name

ORDER BY Revenue DESC


LIMIT 1;

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