SQL Interview Question And Answer | SQL Interview Question And Answer for Fresher | SQL Server | Set-01

1. What is SQL?
 Ans: SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It is a query language used to communicate with a database

2. What is a database query?
  Ans: The process of requesting data from the database and receiving back the results is called a database query.

3.What are the SQL statements?
  Ans::Data definition language (create, alter, drop, truncate)
     Data manipulation language (insert, delete, update)
     Data control language (grant, revoke)
     Data querying/ retrieving language (select)
     Transaction control language (commit, rollback)

4. What is a key?
 Ans:: Key is a pre defined constraint. There are different keys are available. Those are
      
        1.Primary key
        2.Not null
        3.Primary key
        4.Check
        5.Default

5. What is Primary Key?
 Ans: Primary keys are unique identifier for each row.

6. What is Candidate Key?
  Ans:: Candidate key is a combination of attributes that can uniquely identify a database record with out any extronious data.

7. What is Foreign key?
  Ans:: A foreign key is a referential constraint between two tables. That means foreign key identifies a column or set of column in one table that refers to a column or set of column in another table.

8. What is Unique Key?
  Ans:: unique key is a candidate key to uniquely identifies each row in a table. No two distinct rows in a table can have same value in those columns which is declared as unique.

9. What is Composite Key?
  Ans:: A key formed by combining at least two or more columns is called composite key

10. What is the difference between Primary Key and unique Key?
  Ans:: 1. Both primary key and unique key enforces uniqueness of the columns on which they  are defined.
          2.By default Primary key creates a clustered index on the column.
             By default Unique key creates non clustered index.
          3.The major difference is- the primary key does not allow NULL. But Unique key allows  one NULL   only.


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