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Advanced Sql MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Computer Science & IT MCQs on Advanced Sql with worked academic solutions for PPSC, FPSC, CSS, PMS, NTS.

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Question 1 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a correlated subquery?

Question 2 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What type of join is needed when you wish to include rows that do not have matching values?

Question 3 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What type of join is needed when you wish to return rows that do have matching values?

Question 4 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is true concerning a procedure?

Question 5 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A CASE SQL statement is which of the following?

Question 6 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following statements is true concerning routines and triggers?

Question 7 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is one of the basic approaches for joining tables?

Question 8 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is true concerning systems information in an RDBMS?

Question 9 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The following SQL is which type of join: SELECT CUSTOMER_T. CUSTOMER_ID, ORDER_T. CUSTOMER_ID, NAME, ORDER_ID FROM CUSTOMER_T,ORDER_T WHERE CUSTOMER_T. CUSTOMER_ID = ORDER_T. CUSTOMER_ID

Question 10 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Embedded SQL is which of the following?

Question 11 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A UNION query is which of the following?

Question 12 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following statements is true concerning subqueries?

Question 13 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

How many tables may be included with a join?

Question 14 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The following SQL is which type of join: SELECT CUSTOMER_T. CUSTOMER_ID, ORDER_T. CUSTOMER_ID, NAME, ORDER_ID FROM CUSTOMER_T,ORDER_T ;

Question 15 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is true concerning triggers?

Question 16 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Triggers are stored blocks of code that have to be called in order to operate.

Question 17 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The joining technique is useful when data from several relations are to be retrieved and displayed and the relationships are not necessarily nested.

Question 18 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

There should be one condition within the WHERE clause for each pair of tables being joined.

Question 19 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Subqueries can be nested multiple times.

Question 20 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The code to create triggers and routines is stored in only one location and is administered centrally.

Question 21 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A transaction is the complete set of closely related update commands that must all be done, or none of them done, for the database to remain valid.

Question 22 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

When AUTOCOMMIT is set on, changes will be made automatically at the end of each SQL statement.

Question 23 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The UNION clause is used to combine the output from multiple queries together into a single result table.

Question 24 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

ROLLBACK WORK asks SQL to empty the log file.

Question 25 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The most frequently used relational operation, which brings together data from two or more related tables into one resultant table, is called an equi-join.

Question 26 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Outer join is the same as equi-join, except one of the duplicate columns is eliminated in the result table.

Question 27 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A correlated subquery is where the outer query depends on data from the inner query.

Question 28 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

A function returns one value and has only output parameters.

Question 29 of 29
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

With the UNION clause, each query involved must output the same number of columns, and they must be UNION compatible.

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