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    Microsoft SQL Server Interview Questions Answers, and Explanations: Microsoft SQL Server Certification Review
    Microsoft SQL Server Interview Questions Answers, and Explanations: Microsoft SQL Server Certification Review
    Microsoft SQL Server Interview Questions Answers, and Explanations: Microsoft SQL Server Certification Review
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    Microsoft SQL Server Interview Questions Answers, and Explanations: Microsoft SQL Server Certification Review

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    The Ultimate Reference & Learning Guide for the SQL Professional!

    In depth and current overview of common challenges with SQL!

    Fluency with Structural Query Language is essential for the database professional, however, a user-friendly and thorough resource can be difficult to locate. From helping you to assess your current skill level to preparing for an interview, this guide will tell any programmer with any level of SQL fluency the details of what you really need to know. Set yourself apart from other candidates and show that you have what it takes to land the job. More than just a rehash of the basics, more than just documentation and sales presentations, each section is based on project knowledge and experience gained on successful high-profile implementations so you can set yourself apart!

    Key topics include:

    • Declarative language in data retrieval operations
    • Challenges in data projection
    • DML elements
    • Transaction control
    • Trouble-shooting for runaway results and Cartesian joins

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEquity Press
    Release dateJun 3, 2011
    ISBN9781603322225
    Microsoft SQL Server Interview Questions Answers, and Explanations: Microsoft SQL Server Certification Review

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      Microsoft SQL Server Interview Questions Answers, and Explanations - Equity Press

      SQL Server Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations

      By Terry Clark

      Copyright 2007 Equity Press

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      SQL Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations

      ISBN-13 978-1-933804-77-4

      ISBN 1-933804-77-7

      By Terry Clark

      Edited by Emilee Newman Bowles

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      History

      Description

      SQL Server Express Edition

      Benefits

      Question 01: Getting the Matching Records

      Question 02: Passing a Variable in a Different Field

      Question 03: Date Formatting

      Question 04: Selecting Multiple Tables

      Question 05: Moving Data From One Table to Another

      Question 06: Updating a Record Without Using a Cursor

      Question 07: Primary Key ID

      Question 08: SQL Table

      Question 09: Instance Size

      Question 10: Combining Two Tables and a View

      Question 11: Running SQL Server

      Question 12: SQL server 7 Database

      Question 13: Updating Two or More Tables

      Question 14: Deleting a Particular Database

      Question 15: Range Search Queries

      Question 16: Granting View Permissions

      Question 17: Calculation Across Tables

      Question 18: Deleting Duplicates From a Table

      Question 19: Updating Data

      Question 20: Updating Table1 with Contents from Table2

      Question 21: Creating a Report

      Question 22: Listing Columns in Order

      Question 23: Query Based on Select Records of Table1

      Question 24: Returning Number of Records

      Question 25: Replacing Function in MsSQL

      Question 26: DateDiff Function

      Question 27: Adding Numeric Value

      Question 28: Finding Duplicate Rows

      Question 29: Migrating from Sybase to SQL Server 6.5

      Question 30: USE Command

      Question 31: Viewing Selected Quarter and Previous Quarter

      Question 32: Dynamic SELECT Statement in Stored Procedure

      Question 33: Changing Integer to Decimal

      Question 34: Data From DTS to Access

      Question 35: Identifying Databases in EM

      Question 36: Field-level security

      Question 37: SQL Server Error with DELETE

      Question 38: Setting Varchar Dynamically

      Question 39: Creating a Comment Key Field

      Question 40: Database From ASP Page

      Question 41: Executing a Stored Procedure

      Question 42: Access SQL Server through VPN

      Question 43: Trigger Preventing Table Deletes

      Question 44: Duplicate Records in Two Tables

      Question 45: SQL Server when Using DSL

      Question 46: Primary Key Change

      Question 47: Setting up the Login Server

      Question 48: DTS Job

      Question 49: Query Problem

      Question 50: International Characters

      Question 51: Consolidating Statements

      Question 52: Grouping by Date with a Date Time Data Type

      Question 53: Sorting a Query Based on a Column's Value

      Question 54: Update Query for Missing Entries in Table

      Question 55: Importing Dates

      Question 56: SQL Server 2005

      Question 57: Create a Role-Based ER Diagram

      Question 58: Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database Server

      Question 59: SQL Statement

      Question 60: Deleting a Column from Table

      Question 61: Adding a Quantity

      Question 62: Adding SPROC in Database

      Question 63: Returning Last Dated Row for a Primary Key

      Question 64: Setting Foreign Keys

      Question 65: Column Name and Its Value in the Result Set

      Question 66: Creating Basic Fact Tables

      Question 67: Circumventing the Transaction Log Bottleneck

      Question 68: Query List Table with Range to Return State

      Question 69: Sytnax for Openrowset

      Question 70: Retrieving Records ‘N’

      Question 71: Trim the Last , of a String

      Question 72: Retrieving Two Records Per ID

      Question 73: Create a Folder and Copy a File

      Question 74: Calculations on Row Data

      Question 75: Reading ata from Registry

      Question 76: Returning the Records

      Question 77: SQL Server Linked Server Problem

      Question 78: To See Output in Query Analyzer

      Question 79: Selecting a Recordset

      Question 80: Building a Case Statement

      Question 81: Case Statement in a View

      Question 82: SQL Statement Dilemma

      Question 83: Move a Database to Another Server

      Question 84: Grouping by SP with a Text Field

      Question 85: Converting Number/Text to Date

      Question 86: Dynamic SQL Statement

      Question 87: Semi-Complex Query Question

      Question 88: t’Times and t’SoteVisits

      Question 89: Creating a Table Name

      Question 90: Calculated Column

      Question 91: DTS Task

      Question 92: Inserting Spaces

      Question 93: Creating Date Range

      Question 94: Changing Location of Data Files of a Database

      Question 95: Installation Problem

      Question 96: Convert an INT Field

      Question 97: Reference a Server/Database

      Question 98: Drop an Existing Table

      Question 99: User and Permission Table

      Question 100: Inserting Records from Table Order

      Acknowlegements

      Introduction

      SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) produced by Microsoft. Its primary query language is Transact-SQL, an implementation of the ANSI/ISO standard Structured Query Language (SQL) used by both Microsoft and Sybase. SQL Server is commonly used

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