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Extended Data Analyst SQL Interview Prep

This document serves as a comprehensive guide for SQL interview preparation, covering essential questions and answers across various topics including SQL commands, scenario-based questions, query-writing challenges, SQL functions, indexing, and performance optimization. It provides detailed explanations of concepts such as DDL, DML, joins, and stored procedures. Additionally, it includes practical tasks and examples to help candidates effectively prepare for SQL interviews.

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Extended Data Analyst SQL Interview Prep

This document serves as a comprehensive guide for SQL interview preparation, covering essential questions and answers across various topics including SQL commands, scenario-based questions, query-writing challenges, SQL functions, indexing, and performance optimization. It provides detailed explanations of concepts such as DDL, DML, joins, and stored procedures. Additionally, it includes practical tasks and examples to help candidates effectively prepare for SQL interviews.

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Comprehensive Data Analyst Interview Prep - SQL Topics

This document consolidates all essential SQL interview questions and answers based on the

comprehensive training content provided in the source material. It covers conceptual definitions,

query-writing tasks, scenario-based situations, and assessment-style interview questions.

Conceptual SQL Commands and Syntax

- Define DDL, DML, TCL, and DCL commands with examples.

- What are constraints in SQL? Explain NOT NULL, UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY.

- Difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE.

- What is a view in SQL and its uses?

- Explain types of joins: INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL, CROSS JOIN.

Scenario-Based Situational Questions

- How would you fetch the 3rd highest salary in a table?

- What would you do to clean duplicate records keeping one entry?

- How to fetch employees whose salary is above department average?

- How to track inserted, updated, and deleted data in a log table using triggers?

- Write a SQL merge query to synchronize two tables.

Query-Writing Challenges

- Write a query to extract distinct cities from an Employee table.

- Fetch running total of Salary within each department.

- Get top 2 highest salaries per department.

- Pick names starting with 'R' or 'S'.

- Extract First_Name, Middle_Name, Last_Name from a full Name field.

SQL Functions & String Handling

- Use LEN, UPPER, LOWER, LEFT, RIGHT, REPLACE, SUBSTRING with examples.
- Explain GETDATE(), DATEDIFF(), DATEADD() functions.

- What's the difference between CONVERT and CAST?

Indexing and Performance Optimization

- Define clustered and non-clustered indexes with examples.

- How would you improve query performance for a large Employee table?

- Explain how CTE (Common Table Expression) works.

Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Cursors

- Create a parameterized stored procedure.

- Explain the difference between stored procedure and function.

- Create an after insert, update, delete trigger to log data.

- Explain cursor use cases and write a scroll cursor example.

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