Sybase Interview Questions and answers .....

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1) Explain about the Sybase group?
Sybase exclusively focuses on mobilizing and managing information. It is known to
be the third largest database

management company after Oracle and IBM. Sybase products on Investment

banking are well known to the world over and it offers many customized solutions for
business intelligence.

2) Explain about Sybase 365?

This product from Sybase is the world leader in messaging services through mobile.
It distributes mobile content via MMS, SMS, UMTS and WAP. It process more than 8
billion messages monthly and with this product you have access to enterprise
mobility anywhere.

3) State some of the products of Sybase?

Sybase has worlds leading products some of them are
* ASE
* Avantgo
* Power builder and power designer
* SQL ianywhere
* Sybase IQ
* Sybase replication server
* Sybase RTE
* Sybase data federation
* Main frame connect

4) Explain about the features of Sybase IQ?

Sybase IQ stores data base in the form of columns of data rather in rows. This
storage model improves the accessibility and search criteria for the data.
Performance of the search criteria improves greatly because it searches only columns
rather than the rows and columns of the database. This is also environment friendly.

5) State some of the criticism about Sybase IQ?

Sybase storage systems are optimized for Dataware housing applications where data
cannot be modified can be modified by searching and accessing the data.
Its column based search criteria gives high performance for search but it negates the
writing capability to the data.
Performance for row based relational based databases is worse because it is very
difficult for updating and modifying them.

6) Explain the structure of Adaptive server enterprise?

Structure of ASE installation hosts several databases and it comprises of one data
server. Also system files occupy only one meta data. User databases are stored in
the form of tables. Security and information privacy can be protected by setting
permissions.

7) Explain about the Data integration suite features?

Data integration suite offers advanced development and management tools.
Integration of data is very easy and efficient as you can navigate your data to a
specified address without much difficulty. The five important features are ETL, Data
federation, Replications, Real time events and search events.

Explain about Power Designer Data modeling software?

Power designer has two unique tools known as Link and Sync technologies. This
technology offers Data base designers to design efficient data models through which
one can offer efficient design. Also Data base designers can share resources among
them which will improve the productivity and performance.

9) Explain about the mainframe connect tools from Sybase?

This connectivity tool gives access to high performance tools which connects you
very fast to the main frame data sources. It gives you read and write access to
databases. It also has a facility by which you can connect the main frame data to
secondary data storage facilities.

10) Explain the benefits you can get from Mainframe connect?
These are the following benefits you can get from mainframe connect: -
1) Client applications can be enabled. External software’s can be connected to the
mainframe connect for higher performance.
2) Mainframe applications connect to external data through LAN.
3) New applications can be created which enables you to connect to external data or
source of information.

11) Explanation about replication server software?

Replication server software makes you to manage multiple data platforms very
easily. Some of the features which it provides are heterogeneous replication and
synchronization across various applications bi directionally. It provides services from
the client to server and server to client.

12) Explain about Open switch business continuity software?

Open switch business software helps you to work on the back up system without any
hassles making your primary database server secured. It gives you connectivity to
the primary database from the secondary server even in the middle of the
application.

13) Explain about Mirror Activator Disk mirroring?

This software works with storage replication systems and replicates the database to
an available ASE or any database back up devices such as oracle. It increases the
security of applications and also reduces the fail over time for data applications.

14) Give the benefits of Data integration suite?

Some of the benefits which you can get from a Data integration suite are
1) Flexibility: -This suite gives a greater flexibility to incorporate data from various
sources such as web, file systems, etc and it can transfer this data to third party
applications such as SQL, production systems, etc.

15) Explain about Enterprise scalability and ROI of Data integration suite?
Enterprise scalability provides increased capacity without any new addition of
hardware. It increases the capacity by increasing the availability in the enterprise
data layer.
ROI: - Streamlining of application projects and reducing data management costs,
data federation increases ROI. Complexity and superior decision making choices
make ROI best in its class.
 16) Explain about ETL data integration software?
ETL supports data consolidation; it brings data from multiple sources and places it in
a single repository. It brings scalable grid architecture for efficient management of
data.

17) Explain about Mobile enterprise application enablement?

Custom based applications for mobiles, existing applications, etc can be brought onto
a mobile phone with this suite. It provides core integration, messaging,
synchronization, data management of mobile phone, etc. It enables information
exchange and transportability between developers and enterprise systems.

2) Set 3 : Sybase Interview Questions and Answers:Theoritical

1
what is stored procedure?what is the maximum parameter can pass through it?
It is a db objects that exists independly of the table ,Which contain a set of
query.maximum paraperters pass through it is 255
2
what is Advantage of stored procedure?
faster execution,reduce network traffic,Modular programming,reduced operator
eror,enforced consistency
3
what is Trigger?how many trigger can a table have and what are?
It is internal part of a statement that fired when insert,update,delete operation taken
place.Three trigger,Triggers are special kind of stored procedures that get executed
automatically when an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE operation takes place on a table.
4
What is magic table?
The table that exists within a trigger named as Inserted and deleted are Magic table
5
what is view?how many table can join for creating view?
It is logical way of looking at physical data located in a table,16
6
how will you add a column and drop a column?
Alter table table name [add][drop] column name
7
explain about @@sqlstatus?
It returns the status of the pervious fetch statement in a cursor
8
compare WHERE clause and HAVING clause?
Where clause cannot have Aggeregate function ,and it select the row before the group
by function .having select the row after the group by
9
What is dead lock?
A deadlock occurs when there is a cyclic dependency between two or more transactions
for the same set of resources.
10
What is sp_dboption?
It is used to enable or disable db option for your database
11
What is CURSOR?
It is a pointer , use for row by row operation
12
Why we should go for Deallocating the cursors?
When we Deallocate the cursor so that server will clear the memory space occupied by
the cursor we can use that space for some other action
13
How many index can have for a table?
250
14
What is Clustered and Nonclustered index?
When you craete a clustered index on a table, all the rows in the table are stored in the
order of the clustered index key. So, there can be only one clustered index per table.
Non-clustered indexes have their own storage separate from the table data storage.
Non-clustered indexes are stored as B-tree structures (so do clustered indexes), with the
leaf level nodes having the index key and it's row locater
15
How do I get the Duplicate rows from a table?
select * from table group by column having count(*)>1
16
While creating index I forgot to tell what type what will happen?
nonclustered index
17
Compare Primary key and Unique key?
Both primary key and unique enforce uniqueness of the column on which they are
defined. But by default primary key creates a clustered index on the column, where are
unique creates a nonclustered index by default. Another major difference is that,
primary key doesn't allow NULLs, but unique key allows one NULL only.
18
What is BCP?and Types?
It is used for import and export the values from table to os file and vice-ver.Fast bcp
and Slow bcp
19
Compare left and Right Outer Join?
For left join all row was selected in outer table and for inner table row which are not
meet the join condition are filled with NULL. In Right join inner table all row was selected
and for outer table the rows which not meet the join conditins will filled with NULL
20
While bcp in default,rules,constraints can be applied?
Only default can apply
21
What is Hotspot?
Whan a multipe processes attempt to modify a same page in table
22
How do I force the lock?
Using Holdlock
23
What is Isolation levels and explain them?
The categories of locking behavior within transaction that are defined by ANSI,Level are
0,1,2,3
24
how to get Yesterday’s date?
dataadd(dd,-1,getdate())
25
What is –I option in Sybase tools?
It is the name of the interface file to use when trying to find a server to connect to
26
How do u copy the output results into a file?
isql -Usa -P -S -oos_file_name
27
What are defaults? Is there a column to which a default can't be bound?
When you are inserting suppose forgot to enter the value for particular column than you
will provide some constant value for that .identity ,timestamps column are default
cannot bound
28
If I want current database name?
db_name()
29
If i want creation text of a particular object (such as SP,Trigger,view,rule,default)what
shall i do
sp_helptext,defncopy,syscomments
30
Compare Join and SubQuery in performance?
Generally Join queries consume more memory than sub query. Sub query in turn involve
intermediate table creation so affects performance, because of high I/Os fetches need
for processing. If the RAM memory is more, then the Joins can be used instead of sub
queries. Under memory constraints we can go for sub queries.
Sometimes sub queries are flattened to join to improve the performance. Also making
the outer query to compare inner query with equality option can materialize the
subquery.
31
What are the different types of lock in Sybase?
Shared locks :SQL server applies shared lock for read operations. All the processes can
read, but no process can write.
Update lock :allows many processes to read, but no other process can get an excl. or
update lock. This lock is applied during update or delete but changes to excl lock when
modification takes place and exists till the transaction is completed.

Exclusive lock: SQL server applies exclusive lock for data modification operations. When
the transaction gets exclusive lock, other transactions cannot obtain any other type of
locks until the exclusive lock is released at the end of the transaction.
32
List out all System procedure in your server?
select name from sysobjects where type='P'
33
There's a performance issue What will be your very first step towards the solution?
First you need to identify which query is creating the problem and than to identify where
the problem lies in that query. Query that is taking maximum time is the first you want
to consider for the optimization. To check which query is taking maximum time to
execute place getdate() both before and after the query. Identity the type of the query
whether it is a data look-up query, or data modification query.
34
What is @@rowcount?
returns the no of rows affected by the preceding query
35
How do you check whether the rollback was correct?
By checking the @@trancount value before rollback statement execute
36
What is Index Covering?
Index covering is a mechanism for using the leaf level of nonclustered index the way the
data page of a clustered index would work. Index covering occurs when all columns
referenced in a query are contained in the index itself.
37
How do you select unique rows using Sybase?
using Distinct keyword
39
How many database Sybase 11 have ,list out with explanations?
four.Master,Model,sybsystemprocs,tempdb
40
What is Roll Forward and Roll Back?
Roll forward : commited transaction not written to data area are rolled forward into the
data.Roll back:uncommited transaction rollback all data modification done with in
transaction are reversed
41
If I want to round the value 999.99 as 1000 ?
round(999.99,0)
42
What is Phantom reads?
when one transaction reads a set of rows that satisfy a search
condition, and then a second transaction modifies the data (through an
insert, delete, update, and so on). If the first transaction repeats
the read with the same search conditions, it obtains a different set
of rows.
43
How will you Restart and Exit on while loop?
continue,break
44
Compare Delete and Truncate?
DELETE TABLE is a logged operation, so the deletion of each row gets logged in the
transaction log, which makes it slow. TRUNCATE TABLE also deletes all the rows in a
table, but it won't log the deletion of each row, instead it logs the deallocation of the
data pages of the table, which makes it faster. Of course, TRUNCATE TABLE can be
rolled back.
45
How many columns can table have?
250
46
How will you find second maximum value in a table?
select max(column1) from table where column1<(select max(column1) from table)
47
How shall I simulate from level 0 to level 3 in Isolation?
using holdlock
48
Can I explicitly insert a value in a Identity column?
set identity_insert on
49
Can I change the data type of column ?
yes using modify keyword
50
How will you tune a query?