SQL Interviews

SQL Interviews

SQL interview questions covering queries, joins, indexing, optimization, and database concepts.

41 Topics Beginner to Advanced 4+ Hours

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What are the different types of SQL statements?

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What is the difference between DELETE, TRUNCATE, and DR

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What is a primary key?

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What is a foreign key?

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What are the different types of joins in SQL?

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What is the difference between WHERE and HAVING?

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What is the use of the GROUP BY clause?

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What is the difference between UNION and UNION ALL?

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What is an index in SQL?

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What types of index in SQL?

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What is a subquery?

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How do you use the BETWEEN operator?

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How can you find the second highest salary from a table

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Explain the use of CASE statements in SQL.

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What is a view?

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What are the limitations of SQL?

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Write a query to fetch all records from a table named employees.

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Write a query to fetch unique department names from the departments table.

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Write a query to count the number of rows in the orders table.

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Write a query to fetch only the first 10 records from the customers table.

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Write a query to fetch all employees whose salary is greater than 50,000.

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Write a query to find employees hired between two specific dates

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Write a query to fetch records where the name starts with ‘A’.

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Write a query to retrieve customers who do not have an email.

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Write a query to get employee names along with their department names using INNER JOIN.

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Write a query to get all customers and their orders using LEFT JOIN.

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Write a query to list customers who have not placed any orders using RIGHT JOIN or NOT EXISTS.

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Write a query to find the total sales per product.

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Write a query to find the average salary per department.

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Write a query to get the maximum and minimum salary in the company.

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Write a query to find departments with more than 5 employees.

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Write a query to count number of orders placed each day.

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Write a query to find employees who earn more than the average salary.

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Write a query to list customers who placed the highest number of orders.

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Write a query to fetch the second highest salary using subquery.

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Write a query to find products not ordered by any customer.

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Write a query to fetch top 5 highest paid employees.

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Write a query to get orders placed in the last 7 days.

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Write a query to concatenate first name and last name.

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Write a query to fetch top 3 salaried employees in each department.

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