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  1. MERGE Statement - Insert or Update ("Upsert"):
  2. What is virtual table?
  3. Delete duplicate records without using "rowid"
  4. How to delete duplicate rows in a table
  5. cursors
  6. Rdbms
  7. What is a join?
  8. How do you retrieve the first 5 characters of FIRSTNAME
  9. Is DECLARE CURSOR executable?
  10. Can you have more than one cursor
  11. What is VDL
  12. What happens when you say
  13. What is meant by Isolation?
  14. What is meant by a database
  15. What is the main use of B & B+
  16. Explain how a database could be recovered
  17. What is a relationship set ?
  18. What is degree of Relationship type?
  19. What is an Aggregation?
  20. What is meant by entity integrity?
  21. What is a key?
  22. What is meant by Atomicity?
  23. In the WHERE clause what is
  24. How would you find out the total number
  25. How do you concatenate the FIRSTNAME and
  26. What is the use of VALUE function?
  27. Which system table contains information
  28. What is meant by Table?
  29. What is a results table?
  30. What synonym can do in sql?
  31. Why SELECT * is not preferred in
  32. What are some SQL aggregates and
  33. What is a Cartesian product?
  34. How is the data structure of System
  35. What is DDL Interpreter?
  36. What is the restriction on using
  37. What is meant by non-serial
  38. Compare a subselect to a join?
  39. What is UNION,UNION ALL?
  40. When you COMMIT, is the cursor
  41. Is BETWEEN inclusive of the range
  42. Explain STOGROUP?
  43. What are the different types of joints?
  44. How do you specify and use a cursor in
  45. What is meant by serializability?
  46. What is meant by Durability?
  47. What is Transaction?
  48. What is an object?
  49. What is Relational Calculus?
  50. What is Set-at-a-time or Set-oriented?
  51. What is VDL (View Definition Language)?
  52. What is the difference between IN subselects
  53. What is meant by Data Definition
  54. Apart from cursor, what other ways are available
  55. How would you retrieve rows from
  56. What is the syntax for a CREATE
  57. What is meant by null?
  58. How do you eliminate duplicate values
  59. What are aggregate functions?
  60. What is the foreign key?
  61. What is an Entity type?
  62. What is the meaning of domain of
  63. What is the meaning of DBMS?
  64. What are the three levels of data
  65. Explain the difference between a database
  66. What is an entity set?
  67. What is degree of a Relation?
  68. What is Relationship type?
  69. What is an Entity?
  70. Describe referential integrity?
  71. What is a Candidate key?
  72. Explain 2nd Normal Form?
  73. What is the use of the Normalization?
  74. Explain Boyce-Codd Normal Form
  75. What is the difference between the Union
  76. My SQL statement SELECT AVG(SALARY) FROM
  77. What is the meaning of underscore
  78. What is the difference between the following
  79. After a table is defined, can columns
  80. Explain index in SQL?
  81. What are the column name qualifiers?
  82. What is the difference between group
  83. Explain the use of the WHERE
  84. Explain Alter and Drop statements
  85. How is the SUBSTR keyword used
  86. Define the "integrity rules"?
  87. What is Data Storage - Definition Language?
  88. What is Query evaluation engine?
  89. What is Record-at-a-time?
  90. What is the difference b/w the
  91. How does Tuple-oriented relational calculus
  92. Explain Encapsulation?
  93. In general, how should the boundaries of
  94. Explain schedule?
  95. What is meant by View serializability?
  96. What is a cursor? Why should it
  97. When is it necessary to create
  98. How is the SUBSTR keyword
  99. Can you use MAX on a CHAR column?
  100. How do you specify and use a cursor in
  101. Explain the necessity of defining processing
  102. What is Data Storage - Definition
  103. What is the basic difference between
  104. Explain an outer join?
  105. What are the different Concurrency
  106. What are the different types of equivalences?
  107. What is meant by serial schedule?
  108. What is meant by Atomicity?
  109. Explain the difference between an explicit and
  110. Explain Modularity?
  111. What is class?
  112. Explain Domain relational calculus?
  113. What is Relational Algebra?
  114. Select name from employee where salary=salary.
  115. What is DML Compiler?
  116. What is a view? How it is related to
  117. What is extension and intension?
  118. Explain the EXPLAIN statement?
  119. What will GRANT option do?
  120. Describe the elements of the SELECT query
  121. What is meant by embedded SQL?
  122. What is minimum authority required for
  123. Can one add columns to a table after
  124. How to copy SQL table?
  125. What do you accomplish by GROUP
  126. How do you select a row using
  127. How do you find the maximum value in
  128. What is the difference between Oracle,
  129. Explain 3rd Normal Form?
  130. What is Normalization?
  131. What are the tools to create E-R
  132. What is a Weak entity set?
  133. What is an Attribute?
  134. What is data model?
  135. How can you define a data base?
  136. What are the advantages of DBMS?
  137. Disadvantage in File Processing System?
  138. Describe the advantages and disadvantages
  139. Why is it important to write to the log before
  140. What are the different types of entities?
  141. What is a relation?
  142. What is meant by relation schema?
  143. What is the meaning of Relationship
  144. What are the different types of
  145. What are the super key and key?
  146. What is an Extension of entity type?
  147. What are the some design issues of
  148. What is a Super key?
  149. When is a functional dependency F said
  150. What are the different normal forms?
  151. Explain 5th Normal Form?
  152. What is Fully Functional dependency?
  153. Explain 4th Normal Form?
  154. Explain Lossless-join dependency?
  155. When using count(distinct) it is better to use a
  156. What is 'LIKE' used for in WHERE clause
  157. How do you retrieve the first 5 characters of
  158. When do you use a LIKE statement?
  159. Define rollback and roll forward?
  160. What are correlated sub queries?
  161. Explain Table space?
  162. Where in a table are added columns
  163. What authority is required to create
  164. What alias can do?
  165. What is a correlation name?
  166. What is a subselect? Is it different from
  167. What keyword does an SQL SELECT statement use
  168. Explain ORDER BY clause?
  169. What does the term "grant privileges
  170. How to find out the database name from
  171. What is the difference between the co-related
  172. What is System R? What are its two major
  173. What is Data Independence?
  174. What is DML
  175. Explain Data Manipulation Language?
  176. What is RDBMS?
  177. What is meant by tuple relational calculus?
  178. What are the different types of authorities in
  179. What is an object-oriented analysis?
  180. Explain Abstraction?
  181. What is lock granularity?
  182. Explain the meaning of the expression ACID
  183. What is meant by Consistency?
  184. What are the different types of
  185. What is meant by Conflict serializability?
  186. Explain the necessity of defining processing rights
  187. What is a cursor?
  188. What techniques are used to retrieve data from
  189. What is degree of Relationship type?
  190. In general, how should the boundaries of a
  191. Specify UNION to eliminate the duplicate
  192. My SQL statement SELECT AVG(SALARY) FROM
  193. What is an alias and how does it differ from
  194. What is the meaning of the functional
  195. What is the difference between static and
  196. Explain Multi-valued Dependency?
  197. Explain 1st Normal Form?
  198. What is Multivalued dependency?
  199. What is a Primary Key?
  200. What is Object Oriented model?
  201. What are the some utilities of E-R
  202. Can you define the existence
  203. What is DML Compiler
  204. What is normalization
  205. What is Relationship
  206. Define the "integrity rules"
  207. What is database
  208. What is a query
  209. What is Relational Algebra
  210. What is DBMS
  211. What is 3NF
  212. What is an Oracle Instance
  213. What is File Manager
  214. What is "transparent DBMS"
  215. What is Relational Calculus
  216. What is Relationship set
  217. What is an Entity
  218. Advantages of DBMS
  219. What do you mean by flat file
  220. What is Buffer Manager
  221. Name the sub-systems of
  222. What is a Phantom Deadlock
  223. What is DDL Interpreter
  224. What is Relationship type
  225. What is Data Model
  226. What is a Database system
  227. What is an Entity set
  228. What is 4NF
  229. What is meant by query
  230. What is database Trigger
  231. What are Armstrong rules
  232. What is E-R model
  233. What is extension and intension
  234. What is an Entity type
  235. What is degree of Relationship
  236. What is Functional Dependency
  237. What is a checkpoint and When
  238. How do you communicate with an
  239. What is Storage Manager
  240. What are stand-alone procedures
  241. What do you mean by Correlated
  242. What is join dependency and inclusion
  243. What is Lossless join property
  244. What is DDL
  245. What is an attribute
  246. What is Data Independence
  247. Disadvantage in File Processing
  248. What is Object Oriented
  249. What is VDL
  250. What is Record-at-a-time