Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers Complete List Download

By: Shyam Alban

Shyam Alban — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:05 +0000

Thanks a Lot :-)

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:04:45 +0000

@Ashwin

Without a WHERE clause? That’s an interesting question. That answer is yes, though it is inefficient. If the only the second record is wanted:

DECLARE @A TABLE (A INT);
INSERT INTO @A SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3;

SELECT TOP(1)
A
FROM
(
SELECT TOP(2)
A
FROM
@A
ORDER BY
A
) A
ORDER BY
A DESC;

By: Ashwin Shende

Ashwin Shende — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:24:37 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I have a query for you, Can we write a select query to select only nth row from a table without using where clause?

This question was asked to me in one of my interview.

Regards,
Ashwin Shende

By: Chús

Chús — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:43:07 +0000

nice job! your Q&A is most appreciated
Thanks

By: Sunil Grewal

Sunil Grewal — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:59:43 +0000

Hi Pinal ,

I have written the query in MDX Query Editor in SOL Server 2008 Successfully,
But the problem is when we implement the same query in Cube(as expression in calculated measure) its not working in SSAS 2008

The Error is:- Select statement is not correct in MDX Expression

By: RAMBABU

RAMBABU — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:36:04 +0000

Hi Dave
An excellent work and very useful material.
thanks for providing
& Congrats on having baby

By: Mansuri

Mansuri — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:34:34 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I want to get certification for SQL Server 2005/2008. Can you please provide me the reading material for the same.

Thanks,

By: Manohar

Manohar — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:38:50 +0000

Pinal sir.. great work …

By: Anks

Anks — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Thanks so much for the Questions and Answers

Thanks again!!!!

Anks

By: Shravan

Shravan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:45:02 +0000

Hey!

Brilliant blog!
Thanks for the pdf!

Regards,
Shravan.

By: Gangadhar Kotu

Gangadhar Kotu — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:42:49 +0000

Really awesome help.

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By: Sidd

Sidd — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:07:52 +0000

Dear @param,

It has been observed that microsoft copies the idea from other softwares or products and make their own one.

However, I’d recommend that If you are really interested in database then you should go for Oracle.

There’s so many reasons but I’ll not going in depth.

Thanks!

By: Imran Mohammed

Imran Mohammed — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:07:29 +0000

@Dinesh,

If you want sample databases, on which you can learn some Good SQL. Then try installing sample databases.

Here is a step by step pictorial explanation on how to install sample databases.

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/08/10/sql-server-2008-download-and-install-samples-database-adventureworks-2005-detail-tutorial/

~ IM.

By: Dinesh Tiwari

Dinesh Tiwari — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:18:22 +0000

I have install sql server 2005 in vista ultmate without any problem but not any database is install tell me how can I intall the database and I am not able to write any sql query.

By: udmalla

udmalla — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:43:21 +0000

I want to learn SQL 2008 and installed, but no front end, like query analyzer, or query developer installed, am I missing something, I tried installing the SQL Management Studio_x86_ENU studio but none looks like installed on my system, my operating system is Windows Vista Ultimate.
Please, guide me, your help is appreciated. – Thank you.

Best regards
udmalla

By: param

param — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:08:43 +0000

i want to build my career in database.
could u tell me for which certification should i go?
i mean ORACLE or SQL2008.
someone told me that sqlserver2008 will be the best. i m getting confused. pls suggest me.
I m pursuing MCA final year from regular.

thanks
paramjeet singh

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:41:05 +0000

Thank you for the Q&A pdf. This is really precise and very helpful.

By: Rakesh Mishra

Rakesh Mishra — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:59:44 +0000

Hi,
I was going thru your interview question collection. In your question “What is difference between DELETE & TRUNCATE commands?” you have mentioned that “TRUNCATE cannot be rolled back”. But I believe this in NOT true and we can rollback a truncate statement.
For example:
Create table #test (I int)
Insert into #test values (1)
Begin tran
Truncate table #test
Rollback
Select * from #test
Drop table #test

The above code snippet returns a value 1. Could you please tell me how this is possible?

Regards,
Rakesh

By: Rinku

Rinku — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:38:26 +0000

I am getting this kind of error. during the installation i didnt give any login name and password . so what to enter here as login name i dont know.i tried some of them ur solution still give me same error. My Os is window vista and if i try to see service from computer management does not give me service of sql server.

please help me out.

TITLE: Connect to Server
——————————

Cannot connect to 76.194.236.194.

——————————
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3)