Top 50 SQL Scenario-Based
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SQL Interview Scenarios (1-5)
1. Find the second highest salary from employees
table.
2. Find duplicate records in a table.
3. Find employees who earn more than their manager.
4. Find the department with highest average salary.
5. Calculate running total of sales.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (6-10)
6. Find top 3 highest selling products.
7. Find customers who never placed an order.
8. Calculate month over month sales growth.
9. Find employees hired in last 6 months.
10. Get highest salary in each department.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (11-15)
11. Find customers with more than 5 orders.
12. Calculate average order value per customer.
13. Find most frequently purchased product.
14. Calculate daily revenue from orders table.
15. Find employees with same salary.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (16-20)
16. Get nth highest salary using SQL.
17. Find departments with no employees.
18. Calculate percentage contribution of each product to
sales.
19. Find first order date of each customer.
20. Find last purchase date of customers.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (21-25)
21. Rank employees based on salary.
22. Find gaps in sequential IDs.
23. Find employees working in multiple departments.
24. Get cumulative sales by month.
25. Find product with lowest sales.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (26-30)
26. Identify top customer by revenue.
27. Find median salary of employees.
28. Calculate difference between current and previous
sales.
29. Find customers who purchased in every month.
30. Find product with highest revenue.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (31-35)
31. Calculate retention rate of customers.
32. Find duplicate emails in user table.
33. Identify inactive users.
34. Calculate total orders per region.
35. Find department wise employee count.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (36-40)
36. Get latest record for each customer.
37. Find employees who joined on weekend.
38. Find top 5 cities by sales.
39. Calculate average delivery time.
40. Find orders placed on weekends.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (41-45)
41. Find highest order value per customer.
42. Calculate total revenue per month.
43. Find customers who ordered multiple products.
44. Identify products never sold.
45. Find longest gap between orders.
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SQL Interview Scenarios (46-50)
46. Calculate rolling 7-day sales.
47. Find user with maximum login frequency.
48. Calculate conversion rate.
49. Find fastest growing product category.
50. Find churned customers.
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