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LIST OF IMPORTANT SQL QUERIES FOR INTERVIEW

Rohit Ghumare
12 min readJul 25, 2019

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1. Query for Retrieving Tables

This query can be run to retrieve the list of tables present in a database where the database is “My_Schema”.

SELECT * FROM My_Schema.Tables;

2. Query for Selecting Columns from a Table

This is perhaps the most widely used of SQL queries examples. In the example below, we are extracting the “Student_ID” column or attribute from the table “STUDENT”.

SELECT Student_ID FROM STUDENT;

If you want to display all the attributes from a particular table, this is the right query to use:

SELECT * FROM STUDENT;

3. Query for Outputting Data Using a Constraint

This SQL query retrieves the specified attributes from the table on the constraint Employee ID =0000

SELECT EMP_ID, NAME FROM EMPLOYEE_TBL WHERE EMP_ID = '0000';

4. Query for Outputting Sorted Data Using ‘Order By’

This query orders the results with respect to the attribute which is referenced to using “Order By” — so for example, if that attribute is an integer data type, then the result would either be…

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Rohit Ghumare
Rohit Ghumare

Written by Rohit Ghumare

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