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A table is classified as a parent table and you want to drop and re-create it. How would you do this without affecting the children tables?

Answer

Disable the foreign key constraint to the parent, drop the table, re-create the table, enable the foreign key constraint.

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What do you mean by a tablespace?

Answer

- These are the Logical Storage Units into which a database is divided.
- It is used to group together the related logical structures.

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Q:

Which package is imported by default?

Answer java.lang package is imported by default even without a package declaration.
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A database is used to

A) store data B) modify data
C) extract data D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of the above

Explanation:

A database is used to store, modify, extract and to search for the data within it.

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What is Shallow and deep cloning in Java?

Answer

Cloning refers to creating duplicate copies of objects in java.


Shallow Cloning: Shallow cloning is a bitwise copy of an object. New object is created which is an exact copy that of the original one. In case any objects are referring the fields of these objects, just the references are copied.


Deep Cloning: In deep cloning, complete duplicate copy of the original copy is created. Deep cloning creates not only the primitive values of the original objects but also copies all its sub objects as well.


Clonable interface is used to perform cloning in java.

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Q:

What is a synonym? What are its various types?

Answer

A synonym can be called as an alias for a table, view, sequence or program unit. It is basically of two types:
- Private - Only the owner can access it.
- Public - Can be accessed by any database user.

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What are the usages of the Command object in ADO.NET?

Answer

The following are the usages of the Command object in AD0.NET:

The Command object in AD0.NET executes a command against the database and retrieves a DataReader or DataSet object.

  =>  It also executes the INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE command against the database.
  =>  All the command objects are derived from the DbCommand class.
  =>  The command object is represented by two classes: SqlCommand and OleDbCommand.
  =>  The Command object provides three methods to execute commands on the database:
  =>  The ExecuteNonQuery() method executes the commands and does not return any value.
  =>  The ExecuteScalar() method returns a single value from a database query.
  =>  The ExecuteReader() method returns a result set by using the DataReader object.

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What are the uses of synonyms?

Answer

- Mask the real name and owner of an object.
- Provide public access to an object
- Provide location transparency for tables, views or program units of a remote database.
- Simplify the SQL statements for database users.

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