Let us start by taking a look at some of the most frequently asked SQL Query

interview questions,

1. Write a query to fetch the EmpFname from the EmployeeInfo table in the
upper case and use the ALIAS name as EmpName.

Ans: SELECT UPPER(EmpFname) AS EmpName FROM EmployeeInfo;

2. Write a query to fetch the number of employees working in the department
‘HR’.
Ans: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE Department =
'HR';

3. Write a query to get the current date.

Ans: SELECT GETDATE();

4. Write a query to retrieve the first four characters of EmpLname from the
EmployeeInfo table.

Ans: SELECT SUBSTRING(EmpLname, 1, 4) FROM EmployeeInfo;

5. Write a query to fetch only the place name(string before brackets) from the
Address column of EmployeeInfo table.?
Ans: Using the MID function in MySQL
SELECT MID(Address, 0, LOCATE('(',Address)) FROM EmployeeInfo;

OR
Using SUBSTRING

SELECT SUBSTRING(Address, 1, CHARINDEX('(',Address)) FROM

EmployeeInfo;

6. Write a query to create a new table that consists of data and structure copied
from the other table.
Ans: SELECT * INTO NewTable FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE 1 = 0;

OR
CREATE TABLE NewTable AS SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo;

7. Write q query to find all the employees whose salary is between 50000 to
100000.?
Ans: SELECT * FROM EmployeePosition WHERE Salary BETWEEN
'50000' AND '100000';

8. Write a query to find the names of employees that begin with ‘S’
Ans: SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE EmpFname LIKE 'S%';

9. Write a query to fetch top N records.Write a query to retrieve the EmpFname

and EmpLname in a single column as “FullName”. The first name and the last
name must be separated with space.
Ans:

10. Write a query to retrieve the EmpFname and EmpLname in a single column
as “FullName”. The first name and the last name must be separated with
space.
Ans:SELECT CONCAT(EmpFname, ' ', EmpLname) AS 'FullName' FROM
EmployeeInfo;
 Q11. Write a query find number of employees whose DOB is between
02/05/1970 to 31/12/1975 and are grouped according to gender

Ans: SELECT COUNT(*), Gender FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE DOB

BETWEEN '02/05/1970 ' AND '31

12. Write a query to fetch all the records from the EmployeeInfo table
ordered by EmpLname in descending order and Department in the
ascending order.

Ans: SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo ORDER BY EmpFname desc,

Department asc;

13. Write a query to fetch details of employees whose EmpLname

ends with an alphabet ‘A’ and contains five alphabets.

Ans: SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE EmpLname LIKE '____a';

14. Write a query to fetch details of all employees excluding the

employees with first names, “Sanjay” and “Sonia” from the
EmployeeInfo table.
SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE EmpFname NOT IN
('Sanjay','Sonia');

15. Write a query to fetch details of employees with the address as

“DELHI(DEL)”.

SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE Address LIKE 'DELHI(DEL)%';

16. Write a query to fetch all employees who also hold the managerial
position.

SELECT E.EmpFname, E.EmpLname, P.EmpPosition

FROM EmployeeInfo E INNER JOIN EmployeePosition P ON

E.EmpID = P.EmpID AND P.EmpPosition IN ('Manager');

17.Write a query to fetch the department-wise count of employees

sorted by department’s count in ascending order.
SELECT Department, count(EmpID) AS EmpDeptCount

FROM EmployeeInfo GROUP BY Department

ORDER BY EmpDeptCount ASC;

18. Write a query to calculate the even and odd records from a table.

To retrieve the even records from a table, you have to use the MOD() function as
follows:

SELECT EmpID FROM (SELECT rowno, EmpID from EmployeeInfo)

WHERE MOD(rowno,2)=0;

OR

SELECT EmpID FROM (SELECT rowno, EmpID from EmployeeInfo)

WHERE MOD(rowno,2)=1;

19. Write a SQL query to retrieve employee details from EmployeeInfo

table who have a date of joining in the EmployeePosition table.

SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo E

WHERE EXISTS

(SELECT * FROM EmployeePosition P WHERE E.EmpId = P.EmpId);

Q20. Write a query to retrieve two minimum and maximum salaries

from the EmployeePosition table.

To retrieve two minimum salaries, you can write a query as below:

SELECT DISTINCT Salary FROM EmployeePosition E1 WHERE 2 >=

(SELECTCOUNT(DISTINCT Salary)FROM EmployeePosition E2 WHERE
E1.Salary >= E2.Salary) ORDER BY E1.Salary DESC;

21. Write a query to find the Nth highest salary from the table without
using TOP/limit keyword.
SELECT Salary FROM EmployeePosition E1 WHERE N-1 = ( SELECT
COUNT( DISTINCT ( E2.Salary ) ) FROM EmployeePosition E2 WHERE
E2.Salary > E1.Salary );

22. Write a query to retrieve duplicate records from a table.

SELECT EmpID, EmpFname, Department COUNT(*)

FROM EmployeeInfo GROUP BY EmpID, EmpFname, Department

HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;

23.Write a query to retrieve the list of employees working in the same
department.
Select DISTINCT E.EmpID, E.EmpFname, E.Department

FROM EmployeeInfo E, Employee E1

WHERE E.Department = E1.Department AND E.EmpID != E1.EmpID;

24.Write a query to retrieve the last 3 records from the EmployeeInfo

table.

SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE

EmpID <=3 UNION SELECT * FROM

(SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo E ORDER BY E.EmpID DESC)

AS E1 WHERE E1.EmpID <=3;

25.Write a query to find the third-highest salary from the EmpPosition

table.

SELECT TOP 1 salary FROM( SELECT TOP 3 salary FROM

employee_table ORDER BY salary DESC) AS emp ORDER BY salary
ASC;

26. Write a query to display the first and the last record from the
EmployeeInfo table.

To display the first record from the EmployeeInfo table, you can write a query as
follows:

SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE EmpID = (SELECT MIN(EmpID)

FROM EmployeeInfo);

OR

SELECT * FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE EmpID = (SELECT MAX(EmpID)

FROM EmployeeInfo);

27. Write a query to add email validation to your database?

SELECT Email FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE NOT REGEXP_LIKE(Email,

‘[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+.[A-Z]{2,4}’, ‘i’);
28. Write a query to retrieve Departments who have less than 2
employees working in it.

SELECT DEPARTMENT, COUNT(EmpID) as 'EmpNo' FROM EmployeeInfo

GROUP BY DEPARTMENT HAVING COUNT(EmpD) < 2;

29. Write a query to retrieve EmpPostion along with total salaries paid
for each of them.

SELECT EmpPosition, SUM(Salary) from EmployeePosition GROUP BY

EmpPosition;

30. Write a query to fetch 50% records from the EmployeeInfo table.

SELECT *

FROM EmployeeInfo WHERE

EmpID <= (SELECT COUNT(EmpID)/2 from EmployeeInfo);