MYSQL INTERVIEW QUESTION & ANSWERS
26. |
IS SQL reserved words like SELECT, FROM, NULL, and AS are Case Sensitive? |
|
No. These words are case-insensitive, meaning that SELECT, select, and SeLeCt are all parsed by mysqld as the same reserved word.
|
27. |
Tell me some important rules to know about some of the language structure in MySQL |
|
- Comments and portability
- Case-sensitivity
- Escape characters
- Naming limitations
- Quoting
- Time zones
- Character sets and collations
|
28. |
Describe DAYOFMONTH() |
|
Returns the day of the month for date, in the range 1 to 31. |
29. |
What do you use with ALTER TABLE statement? |
|
- Add or drop columns
- Change the name or definition of a column
- Add or drop indexes
- Sort the table’s rows in a particular order
- Rename the table
|
30. |
Tell me the types of indexes. |
|
- A nonunique index is an index in which any key value may occur multiple times.
- A UNIQUE index is unique-valued; that is, every key value is required to be different from all other keys.
- A PRIMARY KEY is a unique-valued index that’s similar to a UNIQUE index but has additional restrictions
(the major one being that no NULL values are allowed).
- A FULLTEXT index is specially designed for text searching.
|