oracle interview questions 1

What is a CO-RELATED SUBQUERY

A CO-RELATED SUBQUERY is one that has a correlation name as table or view designator in the FROM clause of the outer query and the same correlation name as a qualifier of a search condition in the WHERE clause of the subquery.
2. eg
3. SELECT field1 from table1 X
4. WHERE field2>(select avg(field2) from table1 Y
5. where
field1=X.field1);
(The subquery in a correlated subquery is revaluated for every row of the table or view named in the outer query.)

What are various joins used while writing SUBQUERIES

Self join-Its a join foreign key of a table references the same table.
Outer Join–Its a join condition used where One can query all the rows of one of the tables in the join condition even though they don’t satisfy the join condition.
Equi-join–Its a join condition that retrieves rows from one or more tables in which one or more columns in one table are equal to one or more columns in the second table.

What are various constraints used in SQL

NULL
NOT NULL
CHECK
DEFAULT

What are different Oracle database objects

TABLES
VIEWS
INDEXES
SYNONYMS
SEQUENCES
TABLESPACES etc

What is difference between Rename and Alias

Rename is a permanent name given to a table or column whereas Alias is a temporary name given to a table or column which do not exist once the SQL statement is executed.

What is a view

A view is stored procedure based on one or more tables, its a virtual table.

What are various privileges that a user can grant to another user

SELECT
CONNECT
RESOURCE

What is difference between UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints

A table can have only one PRIMARY KEY whereas there can be any number of UNIQUE keys. The columns that compose PK are automatically define NOT NULL, whereas a column that compose a UNIQUE is not automatically defined to be mandatory must also specify the column is NOT NULL.

Can a primary key contain more than one columns

Yes

How you will avoid duplicating records in a query

By using DISTINCT

What is difference between SQL and SQL*PLUS

SQL*PLUS is a command line tool where as SQL and PL/SQL language interface and reporting tool. Its a command line tool that allows user to type SQL commands to be executed directly against an Oracle database. SQL is a language used to query the relational database(DML,DCL,DDL). SQL*PLUS commands are used to format query result, Set options, Edit SQL commands and PL/SQL.

Which datatype is used for storing graphics and images

LONG RAW data type is used for storing BLOB’s (binary large objects).

How will you delete duplicating rows from a base table

DELETE FROM table_name A WHERE rowid>(SELECT min(rowid) from table_name B where B.table_no=A.table_no);
CREATE TABLE new_table AS SELECT DISTINCT * FROM old_table;
DROP old_table RENAME new_table TO old_table DELETE FROM table_name A WHERE rowid NOT IN (SELECT MAX(ROWID) FROM table_name GROUP BY column_name)

What is difference between SUBSTR and INSTR

SUBSTR returns a specified portion of a string eg SUBSTR(’BCDEF’,4) output BCDE INSTR provides character position in which a pattern is found in a string. eg INSTR(’ABC-DC-F’,'-’,2) output 7 (2nd occurence of ‘-’ )