I have been in India for more than a month now, as I am leading a very large outsourcing project. We have conducted few interviews since the project required more Database Administrators and Senior Developers. I am listing few of the questions discussed during all the interviews. The whole event of interviews was very interesting. I met some very good programmers from all over the country. Many interesting questions were discussed between interviewers and candidates. I am listing some of those questions here. Some are technical and some are just my personal opinions. I will appreciate your thought about this article.
SQL SERVER - Q and A with Database Administrators
December 2, 2007 by pinaldave
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Please send me interwiew questions.
Please send me interwiew questions.
Please send me interview questions..
Many thanks for great encouragement ……
Please send me interwiew questions.
hi.
this is salim
i want to know the differnecre between primary key and unique key
please also send me intwerview questions
Superb Sir You website is most help full for SQL Programmer
Please SEnd me the questions.
Sir please send me interview Q. & Ans in sql 9i. Sir your site is very helpful.
Hi Pinal,
Can you please email me the interview questions on sql server 2000 and 2005. It will be very helpful.
Regards
Zia
Hi Pinal,
All Your website information/articles are most help full for SQL Developer and Administrator
Primary key and unique key both are for uniqueness of data in a row.but P.K. dose not allow null values where unique key allow it.
when we define P.K on column at that time cluster index is created automatically. where while creating Unique key non cluster index is created.
Hi Salim
Primary key and unique key both are for uniqueness of data in a row.but P.K. dose not allow null values where unique key allow it.
when we define P.K on column at that time cluster index is created automatically. where while creating Unique key non cluster index is created
Hi pinal
I want to give exam for sql server DBA 2000 . so can u please guide me how to do preparation for that.and tell me how can i get the material for that and from .
Thanks
Darshan shah
dksit_05@yahoo.com
Please send me the questions.
Thank you.