Interview Questions

1) What are the system databases in SQL server 2000/2005?Explain?

2) What is the main differences between clustered index and non clustered
index?
3) How to truncate the transaction log?
4) Explain the difference b/w join/union/union all?
5) Diff b/w delete/truncate or delete/drop?
6) Defina normalization? Explain the normal forms?
7) What is file group?
8) Define isolation level? How many types of isolation levels?what is default?
9) What is the differences between sql server 2000/2005?
10) What is the deadlock?how to avoid the deadlock?
11) Diff between locking and deadlock?
12) Explain diff b/w inex rebuild and index defrag?
13) How to trouble shoot the slow running query?
14) What is the difference b/w logshipping and replication?
15) What is the purpose of logshipping?
16) How to trouble shoot when msdb is running slow?
17) What do u mean by disaster recovery?
18) What are the default databases?
19) How to connect to sql server?
20) How many types of authentifications are there?
21) Which authentification is best one(windows OR sql server)?
22) How to rebuild master database?
23) What is the architecture of logshipping?
24) What is the replication?How many types of replication are there?
25) What are the monitoring tools?
26) Define denormalisation?use of denormalisation?
27) How many types backups are there.what is the diff b/w full and differential?
28) Explain the diff between database mirroring and logshipping?
29) Explain sql profiler?waht is the out put of sql profiler>
30) Explain fragmentation? What is the command for fragmentation?
31) What do u mean by index tunning wizard?
32) What do u mean by checkpint?
33) How will we come to know that backup is failed?
34) What do u mean by dbcc command? What are the commands use in ur
company?

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 35) How to move/copy the data from one database to other database or from one
server to other server in SQL server?
36) What is command use to know the version of SQL server in T-SQL?
37) What are the tcp/ip protocol in SQL server?
38) How will u trouble shoot if installation is not completed properly?
39) How will u bring the database if it is in suspect status?
40) How to trouble shoot if temp db full?
41) What is the diff b/w dbcc reindex and dbcc index defrag?
42) Diff b/w locking & deadlocking&blocking?
43) How do u measure deadlock?
44) AWE?
45) RAID?
46) Differences b/w simple ,full,bulk logged recovery models?
47) Performance monitor counters?
48) Lazy writer?
49) Transactional replication? Advantages and disadvantages?
50) Dbcc commands?
51) Backup strategies?
52) System databases?
53) Delte& tuncate?
54) Datatypes?
55) Types of locks?
56) Acid properties?
57) Isolation levels?
58) Differences b/w linked server & remote servers?
59) If server crashes when u will restore?
60) What is ur company strategy?
61) If server crashes at 1:42 pm?how u take 12 min gap backup?
62) Replication? When replication fails how u config?
63) What type of joins?stored procedures?
64) Logshipping briefly?
65) How u watch query performance?
66) Differces b/q truncate and delte?
67) How can we find the fragmentation?
68) Which dmv is used for checking the fragmentation in sql 2005?
69) Tuning slow running query?
70) What is blocking?how to resolve blocking?
71) What are magic tables?
72) What if your database goes in to suspect mode?
73) What are hints?

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 74) Lock escalation?
75) What is AWE ?PAE/3gb?
76) Orphan users?
77) How to add a column to replicated table?
78) What is database normalization?
79) How will you estimate the size while you are creating database?
80) What was database collation in your last project?
81) Which one is better temp tables or derived table?why?
82) Data with null value is good or bad ? why?
83) What is dead lock?
84) What is dead lock?
85) What is live lock?
86) What will u do when server is slow?
87) What was backup strategy in your recent project?
88) What will you do if a developer comes and ask u to retore a database from a
production server to another production server or on to his server?
89) Suppose a developer deleted many rows from a table and it happened 3 days
back how will you find about that and how can you find what kind of data has
been removed?
90) What are the advantages and disadvantages of sql profiler?
91) What do u mean by filtering ion sql profiler?
92) Wat was the toughest problem faced and wat do u think is ur best
achievement as dba?
93) How many ways are there to transfer data?
94) How many ways are there to create a dts package?
95) Where is the info abt jobs stored and in which database?
96) What are isolation levels?
97) How do u restart the sql server with min configurations and as a single user?
98) What is the diff b/w primary and unique key?
99) What is acid?
100) Can you use where clause in truncate statement?
101) What is auto close option?
102) Diff b/w logshipping and database mirroring?
103) How to tune a query?
104) What are the options used with dbcc check db?
105) How can you connect to a oracle server from sql server?
106) Suppose there is a prob with a server and that too bcoz of a user,how
will u know abt him?
107) Where is the info abt dts packages stored?
108) How to tune stored procedures?

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 109) Explain a/a,a/p cluster configuration?
110) Types of migration from 2000 to 2005?
111) How can you use a secondary server in loghsipping as reportin?
112) How to avoid deadlocks?
113) Wat is differences b/w external and internal?
114) How can u monitor sql server performance?
115) How can u transfer logins?
116) How will estimate the size while you are creating database?
117) What was database collation in your last project?
118) What is the service broker, online restore in sql 2005?
119) Which one is better temp table or derived table?why?
120) Data with null value is good or bad?whhy?
121) What will you do when the server is slow?
122) What was the backup strategy b/w dbcc reindex and dbcc index
defrag?sql server latest faq?

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