Advanced Sql MCQs with Explanations
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Question 1 of 29
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What type of join is needed when you wish to include rows that do not have matching values?
Question 3 of 29
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What type of join is needed when you wish to return rows that do have matching values?
Question 4 of 29
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Which of the following is true concerning a procedure?
Question 5 of 29
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A CASE SQL statement is which of the following?
Question 6 of 29
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Which of the following statements is true concerning routines and triggers?
Question 7 of 29
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Which of the following is one of the basic approaches for joining tables?
Question 8 of 29
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Which of the following is true concerning systems information in an RDBMS?
Question 9 of 29
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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
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Embedded SQL is which of the following?
Question 11 of 29
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A UNION query is which of the following?
Question 12 of 29
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Which of the following statements is true concerning subqueries?
Question 13 of 29
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How many tables may be included with a join?
Question 14 of 29
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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
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Which of the following is true concerning triggers?
Question 16 of 29
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Triggers are stored blocks of code that have to be called in order to operate.
Question 17 of 29
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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
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There should be one condition within the WHERE clause for each pair of tables being joined.
Question 19 of 29
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Subqueries can be nested multiple times.
Question 20 of 29
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The code to create triggers and routines is stored in only one location and is administered centrally.
Question 21 of 29
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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
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When AUTOCOMMIT is set on, changes will be made automatically at the end of each SQL statement.
Question 23 of 29
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The UNION clause is used to combine the output from multiple queries together into a single result table.
Question 24 of 29
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ROLLBACK WORK asks SQL to empty the log file.
Question 25 of 29
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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
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Outer join is the same as equi-join, except one of the duplicate columns is eliminated in the result table.
Question 27 of 29
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A correlated subquery is where the outer query depends on data from the inner query.
Question 28 of 29
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A function returns one value and has only output parameters.
Question 29 of 29
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With the UNION clause, each query involved must output the same number of columns, and they must be UNION compatible.
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