Commonly asked DBMS Interview Questions | Set 2

Last Updated : 25 Oct, 2024

This article is an extension of Commonly asked DBMS interview questions | Set 1.

Q1. There is a table where only one row is fully repeated. Write a Query to find the
Repeated row

Name Section

abc CS1

bcd CS2

abc CS1

In the above table, we can find duplicate rows using the below query.

SELECT name, section FROM tbl

GROUP BY name, section
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1

Q2. Query to find 2nd highest salary of an employee?

SELECT max(salary) FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE salary IN

(SELECT salary FROM EMPLOYEEs MINUS SELECT max(salary)
FROM EMPLOYEES);

OR

SELECT max(salary) FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE

salary <> (SELECT max(salary) FROM EMPLOYEES);

Q3. Consider the following Employee table. How many rows are there in the result of the
following query?

ID Salary DeptName

1 10000 EC

2 40000 EC
 ID Salary DeptName

3 30000 CS

4 40000 ME

5 50000 ME

6 60000 ME

7 70000 CS

How many rows are there in the result of the following query?

SELECT E.ID
FROM Employee E
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT E2.salary
FROM Employee E2
WHERE E2.DeptName = 'CS'
AND E.salary > E2.salary)

Following 5 rows will be the result of the query as 3000 is the minimum salary of CS Employees
and all these rows are greater than 30000. 2 4 5 6 7

Q4. Write a trigger to update Emp table such that, If an updation is done in Dep table
then salary of all employees of that department should be incremented by some amount
(updation)

Assuming Table name are Dept and Emp, trigger can be written as follows:

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER update_trig

AFTER UPDATE ON Dept
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
CURSOR emp_cur IS SELECT * FROM Emp;
BEGIN
FOR i IN emp_cur LOOP
IF i.dept_no = :NEW.dept_no THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(i.emp_no); -- for printing those
UPDATE Emp -- emp number which are
SET sal = i.sal + 100 -- updated
 WHERE emp_no = i.emp_no;
END IF;
END LOOP;
END;

Q5. There is a table which contains two columns Student and Marks, you need to find all
the students, whose marks are greater than average marks i.e. list of above-average
students.

SELECT student, marks

FROM table
WHERE marks > SELECT AVG(marks) from table;

Q6. Name the Employee who has the third-highest salary using sub queries.

SELECT Emp1.Name
FROM Employee Emp1
WHERE 2 = (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(Emp2.Salary))
FROM Employee Emp2
WHERE Emp2.Salary > Emp1.Salary
)

Logic: Number of people with a salary higher than this person will be 2.

Q7. Why we cannot use WHERE clause with aggregate functions like HAVING ?

The difference between the having and where clause in SQL is that the where clause canNOT be
used with aggregates, but the having clause can.

Note: It is not a predefined rule but by and large you’ll see that in a good number of the SQL
queries,
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as a pre filter where as Having as a post filter. The where clause works on row’s data, not on
aggregated data.

Let us consider below table ‘Marks’.

Student Course Score

a c1 40

a c2 50

b c3 60

d c1 70

e c2 80
 SELECT Student, sum(Score) AS total
FROM Marks

This would select data row by row basis. The having clause works on aggregated data. For example,
the output of the below query

SELECT Student, sum(score) AS total FROM Marks

Student Total

a 90

b 60

d 70

e 80

When we apply to have in above query, we get

SELECT Student, sum(score) AS total

FROM Marks having total > 70

Student Total

a 90

e 80

Q8. Difference between primary key and unique key and why one should use a unique key
if it allows only one null ?

Primary key:

Only one in a row(tuple).

Never allows null value(only key field).
Unique key identifier can not be null and must be unique.

Unique Key:

Can be more than one unique key in one row.

Unique key can have null values(only single null is allowed).
It can be a candidate key.
Unique key can be null and may not be unique.

Q9. What’s the difference between materialized and dynamic view?

Materialized views:

Disk-based and are updated periodically based upon the query definition.
 A materialized table is created or updated infrequently and it must be synchronized with its
associated base tables.

Dynamic views:

Virtual only and run the query definition each time they are accessed.
A dynamic view may be created every time that a specific view is requested by the user.

Q10. What is embedded and dynamic SQL?

Static or Embedded SQL:

SQL statements in an application that do not change at runtime and, therefore, can be hard-
coded into the application.

Dynamic SQL:

SQL statements that are constructed at runtime; for example, the application may allow users to
enter their own queries.
Dynamic SQL is a programming technique that enables you to buildSQL statements dynamically
at runtime. You can create more general purpose, flexible applications by using dynamic SQL
because the full text of a SQL statement may be unknown at compilation.

Static (embedded) SQL Dynamic (interactive) SQL

In static SQL how database will be accessed is In dynamic SQL, how database will be accessed
predetermined in the embedded SQL statement. is determined at run time.

It is more swift and efficient. It is less swift and efficient.

SQL statements are compiled at compile time. SQL statements are compiled at run time.

Parsing, validation, optimization, and generation of Parsing, validation, optimization, and generation
application plan are done at compile time. of application plan are done at run time.

It is generally used for situations where data is It is generally used for situations where data is
distributed uniformly. distributed non-uniformly.

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, EXECUTE and PREPARE EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, EXECUTE and PREPARE
statements are not used. statements are used.

It is less flexible. It is more flexible.

Q11. What is the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR?

CHAR and VARCHAR differ in storage and retrieval.

CHAR column length is fixed while VARCHAR length is variable.
The maximum no. of characters CHAR data type can hold is 255 characters while VARCHAR can
hold up to 4000 characters.
CHAR is 50% faster than VARCHAR.
CHAR uses static memory allocation while VARCHAR uses dynamic memory allocation.
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