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Top 15 SQL Interview Questions

This document lists the top 15 SQL interview questions commonly asked by Big 4 companies, along with sample SQL queries as answers. The questions cover various SQL concepts such as finding salaries, retrieving duplicates, and working with employee data. Each question is clearly formatted for easy revision and understanding.

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Top 15 SQL Interview Questions

This document lists the top 15 SQL interview questions commonly asked by Big 4 companies, along with sample SQL queries as answers. The questions cover various SQL concepts such as finding salaries, retrieving duplicates, and working with employee data. Each question is clearly formatted for easy revision and understanding.

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Top 15 SQL Interview

Questions
(Big 4 Companies)
- Ananya Laha
Here are the Top 15 SQL Interview Questions (Big 4 Edition) with sample
answers- formatted clearly so you can save and revise:

1. Find the second highest salary from an Employee table.


SELECT MAX(salary) AS SecondHighest
FROM Employee
WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM Employee);

2. Retrieve duplicate records from a table.


SELECT column_name, COUNT(*)
FROM table_name
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;

3. Fetch the Nth highest salary from a table.


SELECT DISTINCT salary
FROM Employee
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 1 OFFSET n-1;
4. Find employees who joined in the last 3 months.
SELECT *
FROM Employee
WHERE join_date >= DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 3 MONTH);

5. Display all departments along with the number of employees in each.


SELECT department, COUNT(*) AS employee_count
FROM Employee
GROUP BY department;

6. Find employees who never submitted timesheets.


SELECT *
FROM Employees
WHERE emp_id NOT IN (SELECT emp_id FROM Timesheets);

7. Get the department with the highest average salary.


SELECT department
FROM Employee
GROUP BY department
ORDER BY AVG(salary) DESC
LIMIT 1;
8. List top 3 highest paid employees in each department.
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *, RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY department ORDER BY salary DESC) AS
rnk
FROM Employee
) AS ranked
WHERE rnk <= 3;

9. Employees with salaries higher than their department’s average.


SELECT *
FROM Employee e
WHERE salary > (
SELECT AVG(salary)
FROM Employee
WHERE department = e.department
);

10. Pivot rows into columns using CASE.


SELECT id,
MAX(CASE WHEN month = 'Jan' THEN sales END) AS JanSales,
MAX(CASE WHEN month = 'Feb' THEN sales END) AS FebSales
FROM Sales
GROUP BY id;
11. Cumulative salary of employees by department (running total).
SELECT name, department, salary,
SUM(salary) OVER (PARTITION BY department ORDER BY name) AS
cumulative_salary
FROM Employee;

12. Identify missing IDs in a sequence.


SELECT t1.id + 1 AS missing_id
FROM table_name t1
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM table_name t2
WHERE t2.id = t1.id + 1
);

13. Swap two column values without using temp variable.


UPDATE Employee
SET col1 = col2,
col2 = col1;
14. Display employees who have the same salary.
SELECT *
FROM Employee e1
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM Employee e2
WHERE e1.salary = e2.salary AND e1.id != e2.id
);

15. Get the latest record for each employee from audit table.
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY emp_id ORDER BY
updated_at DESC) AS rn
FROM audit_log
) AS temp
WHERE rn = 1;

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