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29 Cards in this Set
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What type of SQL field creates a value of the primary key field automatically every time a new record is inserted? |
Auto_Increment |
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What operator is used to search for a specified pattern in a column? |
Like |
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what type of JOIN returns all rows from table1, with the matching rows in table2 -- FROM table1 _______________ table2 ON table1.column_name=table2.column_name? |
Left Join |
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What type of JOIN selects all rows from two tables as long as there is a match between the columns in both tables? |
Inner Join |
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The GROUP BY statement is used in conjunction with what type of functions to group the result-set by one or more columns? |
Aggregate functions (ex: min, max, sum, avg, count) |
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What type of JOIN returns all rows from Customers and from Orders -- FROM Customers ______________ Orders ON Customers.CustomerID=Orders.CustomerID ORDER BY Customers.CustomerName;? |
Full Outer Join |
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What SQL operator combines the result of two or more SELECT statements? |
Union |
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What is the SQL statement to select all customers with a City of "Paris" or "London"? |
SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE City IN (‘Paris’, ‘London’); SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE City = ‘Paris’ OR City = ‘London’ |
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If you want to create aliases for the tables Customers and Orders in a SELECT query where Customers.CustomerID=Orders.CustomerID, how would you write the query? |
SELECT o.OrderID, o.OrderDate, c.CustomerName FROM Customers AS c, Orders AS o WHERE c.CustomerID=o.CustomerID; |
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What constraint ensures that a field always contains a value? |
Not Null |
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What is the SQL syntax to copy all columns of a table into a backup table? |
SELECT * INTO newtable [IN externaldb] FROM table1; |
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What is the SQL statement to select the product name and the price rounded to the nearest integer from the "Products" table? |
SELECT ProductName, ROUND(Price,0) AS RoundedPrice FROM Products; |
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What values can be used for the range specified with the BETWEEN operator? |
Anything in the table, if there’s a null then it returns null |
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What is the SQL statement to select the product name and price for today from the "Products" table? |
SELECT ProductName, Price, Now AS PerDate FROM Products; |
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What function returns the number of records in a table? |
COUNT |
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With SQL, how do you select all the records from a table named "Persons" where the "FirstName" is "Joe" and the "LastName" is "Blow"? |
SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE FirstName = ‘Joe’ AND LastName = ‘Blow’; |
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With SQL, how do you select all the records from a table named "Persons"? |
SELECT * FROM Persons; |
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In a table, a column may contain many duplicate values; and you want to list only the different values, what is the SQL syntax? |
SELECT DISTINCT columnname, columnname FROM table; |
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With SQL, how do you select all the records from a table named "Persons" where the "LastName" is alphabetically between (and including) "Jones" and "Smith" ? |
SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE LastName BETWEEN ‘Jones’ AND ‘Smith’; |
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Can you use both HAVING and WHERE SQL clauses in a single SQL statement? |
Yes if you want to filter out individual rows before grouping them, start with where and then use a group by statement and having clause |
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Which SQL statement selects all rows from a table called Products and orders the result set by ProductID column? |
SELECT * FROM ProductsORDER BY ProductID; |
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Which SQL keyword is used to retrieve the greatest/highest value? |
MAX |
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With SQL, how can you return all the records from a table named "Persons" sorted descending by "FirstName"? |
SELECT * FROM Persons ORDER BY FirstName DESC; |
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When does the OR operator displays a record? |
First condition OR Second condition is true |
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Which SQL statement is used to return only different values? |
SELECT DISTINCT |
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Which SQL keyword is used to sort the result-set? |
ORDER BY |
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With SQL, how can you insert "Olsen" as the "LastName" in the "Persons" table? |
INSERT INTO Persons (LastName)VALUES (‘Olsen’); |
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With SQL, how can you insert a new record into the "Persons" table? |
INSERT INTO Persons (column1, column2) VALUES (value1, value2); |
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How can you change "Hansen" into "Nilsen" in the "LastName" column in the Persons table? |
UPDATE Persons SET LastName = ‘Nilsen’ WHERE LastName = ‘Hansen’; |