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Top 29 Databases Interview Questions

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Databases Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

What is Normalisation?

  Related To: SQL
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Q2:   

What are the advantages of NoSQL over traditional RDBMS?

  Related To: NoSQL
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Q3:   

What Is ACID Property Of A System?

  Related To: Software Architecture
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Q4:   

What is Optimistic locking?

  Related To: Entity Framework
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Q5:   

Define ACID Properties

  Related To: SQL
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Q6:   

How a database index can help performance?

  Related To: SQL
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Q7:   

What is Denormalization?

  Related To: SQL
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Q8:   

When should I use a NoSQL database instead of a relational database?

  Related To: NoSQL
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Q9:   

What are the difference between Clustered and a Non-clustered index?

  Related To: SQL
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Q10:   

What's the difference between a Primary Key and a Unique Key?

  Related To: SQL
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Q11:   

When would you use NoSQL?

  Related To: NoSQL
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Q12:   

How do you off load work from the Database?

  Related To: Software Architecture
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Q13:   

What Is Sharding?

  Related To: Software Architecture
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Q14:   

How do you track record relations in NoSQL?

  Related To: NoSQL
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Q15:   

Explain eventual consistency in context of NoSQL

  Related To: NoSQL
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Q16:   

What is the cost of having a database index?

  Related To: SQL
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Q17:   

What Is BASE Property Of A System?

  Related To: Software Architecture, NoSQL
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Q18:   

How does B-trees Index work?

  Related To: SQL
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Q19:   

Explain the difference between Exclusive Lock and Update Lock

  Related To: SQL
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Q20:   

Explain the differences in conceptual data design with NoSQL databases?

  Related To: NoSQL
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Q21:   

Is the C in ACID is not the C in CAP?

  Related To: CAP Theorem, NoSQL
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Q22:   

How do you make schema changes to a live database without downtime?

  Related To: PostgreSQL, MySQL
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Q23:   

Why you should never use GUIDs as part of clustered index?

  Related To: MySQL, PostgreSQL, T-SQL
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Q24:   

What Does Eventually Consistent Mean?

  Related To: Software Architecture
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Q25:   

What is the difference between B-Tree, R-Tree and Hash indexing?

  Related To: SQL
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Q26:   

How does database Indexing work?

  Related To: SQL
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Q27:   

What is Optimistic Locking and Pessimistic Locking?

  Related To: SQL
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Q28:   

Name some disadvantages of a Hash index

  Related To: SQL
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Q29:   

What are some other types of Indexes (vs B-Trees)?

  Related To: SQL
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