1. What is DBMS?

A Database Management System (DBMS) is a program that controls creation, maintenance and
use of a database. DBMS can be termed as File Manager that manages data in a database rather
than saving it in file systems.

2. What is RDBMS?

RDBMS stands for Relational Database Management System. RDBMS store the data into the
collection of tables, which is related by common fields between the columns of the table. It also
provides relational operators to manipulate the data stored into the tables.

Example: SQL Server.

3. What is SQL?

SQL stands for Structured Query Language, and it is used to communicate with the Database. This
is a standard language used to perform tasks such as retrieval, updation, insertion and deletion of
data from a database.

Standard SQL Commands Are Select.

4. What is a Database?

Database is nothing but an organized form of data for easy access, storing, retrieval and managing
of data. This is also known as structured form of data which can be accessed in many ways.

Example: School Management Database, Bank Management Database.

5. What are tables and Fields?

A table is a set of data that are organized in a model with Columns and Rows. Columns can be
categorized as vertical, and Rows are horizontal. A table has specified number of column called
fields but can have any number of rows which is called record.

6. What is a primary key?

A primary key is a combination of fields which uniquely specify a row. This is a special kind of
unique key, and it has implicit NOT NULL constraint. It means, Primary key values cannot be
NULL.

7. What is a unique key?

A Unique key constraint uniquely identified each record in the database. This provides uniqueness
for the column or set of columns.

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8. What is a foreign key?

A foreign key is one table which can be related to the primary key of another table. Relationship
needs to be created between two tables by referencing foreign key with the primary key of another
table.

9. What is a join?

This is a keyword used to query data from more tables based on the relationship between the fields
of the tables. Keys play a major role when JOINs are used.

10. What are the types of join and explain each?

There are various types of join which can be used to retrieve data and it depends on the relationship
between tables.

Inner join.

Inner join return rows when there is at least one match of rows between the tables.

Right Join.

Right join return rows which are common between the tables and all rows of Right hand side table.
Simply, it returns all the rows from the right hand side table even though there are no matches in
the left hand side table.

Left Join.

Left join return rows which are common between the tables and all rows of Left hand side table.
Simply, it returns all the rows from Left hand side table even though there are no matches in the
Right hand side table.

Full Join.

Full join return rows when there are matching rows in any one of the tables. This means, it returns
all the rows from the left hand side table and all the rows from the right hand side table.

11. What is normalization?

Normalization is the process of minimizing redundancy and dependency by organizing fields and
table of a database. The main aim of Normalization is to add, delete or modify field that can be
made in a single table.

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12. What is Denormalization.

DeNormalization is a technique used to access the data from higher to lower normal forms of
database. It is also process of introducing redundancy into a table by incorporating data from the
related tables.

13. What are all the different normalizations?

The normal forms can be divided into 5 forms, and they are explained below -.

First Normal Form (1NF):.

This should remove all the duplicate columns from the table. Creation of tables for the related data
and identification of unique columns.

Second Normal Form (2NF):.

Meeting all requirements of the first normal form. Placing the subsets of data in separate tables
and Creation of relationships between the tables using primary keys.

Third Normal Form (3NF):.

This should meet all requirements of 2NF. Removing the columns which are not dependent on
primary key constraints.

Fourth Normal Form (3NF):.

Meeting all the requirements of third normal form and it should not have multi- valued
dependencies.

14. What is a View?

A view is a virtual table which consists of a subset of data contained in a table. Views are not
virtually present, and it takes less space to store. View can have data of one or more tables
combined, and it is depending on the relationship.

15. What is an Index?

An index is performance tuning method of allowing faster retrieval of records from the table. An
index creates an entry for each value and it will be faster to retrieve data.

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16. What is a Cursor?

A database Cursor is a control which enables traversal over the rows or records in the table. This
can be viewed as a pointer to one row in a set of rows. Cursor is very much useful for traversing
such as retrieval, addition and removal of database records.

17. What is a relationship and what are they?

Database Relationship is defined as the connection between the tables in a database. There are
various data basing relationships, and they are as follows:

One to One Relationship.

18. What is a query?

A DB query is a code written in order to get the information back from the database. Query can be
designed in such a way that it matched with our expectation of the result set. Simply, a question to
the Database.

19. What is subquery?

A subquery is a query within another query. The outer query is called as main query, and inner
query is called subquery. SubQuery is always executed first, and the result of subquery is passed
on to the main query.

20. What is a stored procedure?

Stored Procedure is a function consists of many SQL statement to access the database system.
Several SQL statements are consolidated into a stored procedure and execute them whenever and
wherever required.

21. What is a trigger?

A DB trigger is a code or programs that automatically execute with response to some event on a
table or view in a database. Mainly, trigger helps to maintain the integrity of the database.

Example: When a new student is added to the student database, new records should be created in
the related tables like Exam, Score and Attendance tables.

22. What is the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE commands?

DELETE command is used to remove rows from the table, and WHERE clause can be used for
conditional set of parameters. Commit and Rollback can be performed after delete statement.

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TRUNCATE removes all rows from the table. Truncate operation cannot be rolled back.

23. What are local and global variables and their differences?

Local variables are the variables which can be used or exist inside the function. They are not known
to the other functions and those variables cannot be referred or used. Variables can be created
whenever that function is called.

Global variables are the variables which can be used or exist throughout the program. Same
variable declared in global cannot be used in functions. Global variables cannot be created
whenever that function is called.

24. What is a constraint?

Constraint can be used to specify the limit on the data type of table. Constraint can be specified
while creating or altering the table statement. Sample of constraint are.

NOT NULL.
CHECK.
DEFAULT.
UNIQUE.
PRIMARY KEY.
FOREIGN KEY.

25. What is data Integrity?

Data Integrity defines the accuracy and consistency of data stored in a database. It can also define
integrity constraints to enforce business rules on the data when it is entered into the application or
database.

26. What is Self-Join?

Self-join is set to be query used to compare to itself. This is used to compare values in a column
with other values in the same column in the same table. ALIAS ES can be used for the same table
comparison.

27. What is Cross-Join?

Cross join defines as Cartesian product where number of rows in the first table multiplied by
number of rows in the second table. If suppose, WHERE clause is used in cross join then the query
will work like an INNER JOIN.

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28. What is user defined functions?

User defined functions are the functions written to use that logic whenever required. It is not
necessary to write the same logic several times. Instead, function can be called or executed
whenever needed.

29. What is Union, minus and Interact commands?

UNION operator is used to combine the results of two tables, and it eliminates duplicate rows from
the tables.

MINUS operator is used to return rows from the first query but not from the second query.
Matching records of first and second query and other rows from the first query will be displayed
as a result set.

INTERSECT operator is used to return rows returned by both the queries.

30. What is the difference between TRUNCATE and DROP statements?

TRUNCATE removes all the rows from the table, and it cannot be rolled back. DROP command
removes a table from the database and operation cannot be rolled back.