Interview Questions

Aggregate functions perform a calculation on a set of values and return a single value. Aggregate functions ignore NULL values except COUNT function. HAVING clause is used, along with GROUP BY, for filtering query using aggregate values.

Following functions are aggregate functions. 

AVG, MIN CHECKSUM_AGG, SUM, COUNT, STDEV, COUNT_BIG, STDEVP, GROUPING, VAR, MAX. VARP

READNEXT reads the next record from a browse operation for any of the three VSAM files.

Client code must use setters and getters to access internal data in DataHiding

PL/SQL exceptions are raised using the RAISE command. This command is used when exceptions are defined by programmer and not implicit exceptions.

Example:

Declare and raising an exception:

DECLARE

short_of_attendance EXCEPTION;

min_attendance NUMBER(4);

BEGIN

...

IF min_attendance < 10 THEN

RAISE short_of_attendance;

END IF;

EXCEPTION

WHEN short_of_attendance THEN

-- handle the error

END;

public class Test {

    public void replaseSpaces(char[] str, int length) {

        int spaceCount = 0, newLength = 0, i = 0;

        for(i = 0; i < length; i++) {

            if (str[i] == ' ') 

                spaceCount++;

        }

        newLength = length + (spaceCount * 2);

        str[newLength] = '\0';

        for(i = length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {

            if (str[i] == ' ') {

                str[newLength - 1] = '0';

                str[newLength - 2] = '2';

                str[newLength - 3] = '%';

                newLength = newLength - 3;

            }

            else {

                str[newLength - 1] = str[i];

                newLength = newLength - 1;

            }

        }

        System.out.println(str);

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Test tst = new Test();

        char[] ch = {'t', 'h', 'e', ' ', 'd', 'o', 'g', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '};

        int length = 6;

        tst.replaseSpaces(ch, length);  

    }

}

A constructor is a member function of a class that is used to create objects of that class. It has the same name as the class itself, has no return type, and is invoked using the new operator. We cannot invoke a constructor directly.

A method is an ordinary member function of a class. It has its own name, a return type (which may be void), and is invoked using the dot operator.

The principle of diversification tells us that spreading an investment across many diverse assets will eliminate some of the total risk.