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Top 20 SQL Interview Questions & Answers

SQL  is a language for accessing and manipulating database standardized by ANSI. To be successful with database-centric applications (which includes most of the applications Data Warehousing domain), one must be strong enough in SQL. In this article, we will learn more about SQL by breaking the subject in the form of several question-answer sessions commonly asked in Interviewes. SET UP OF SAMPLE DATA FOR PRACTICING SQL For the purpose of our demonstration, we will primarily use two database tables with just a few records - EMPLOYEE table and DEPT table. EMPLOYEE table will contain 10 records pertaining to 10 employees with funny sounding names of an imaginary organization and DEPT or Department table will contain 5 departments of that organization.  Click here to download  the DDL/INSERT statements for this data if you want to practice the below SQLs in your personal computer Contents of these tables are not same with Oracle emp and dept tables!! What is ...