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Interview questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a Primary Key: | primary keys must contain unique values/A field that uniquely identifies a record in a table |
| Foreign keys | foreign keys may have duplicates |
| What is an index | summary table which lets you quickly look up the contents of any record in a table. Think of how you use an index to a book: as a quick jumping off point to finding full information about a subject. |
| normalisation | The process of structuring data to minimise duplication and inconsistencies. |
| Count duplicates | select distinct city, count(city) from A2Account group by city |
| what is a group by statement | "Group By X" means "put all those with the same value for X in the one group. "Group By X, Y" means "put all those with the same values for both X and Y in the one group." |
| group by having? | The Having is simply equivalent to a WHERE clause after the group by has executed and before the select part of the query is computed. |
| how much space in sybase | • sp_hds • sp_helpdb • sp_spaceused |