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Which of the following data types are specific only to Teradata and not compatible to ANSI.
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  1. LONG VARCHAR

  2. BYTEINT

  3. DATE

  4. TIMESTAMP WITH ZONE

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Correct Option: A,B,C

Which of the following does not hold true for the subqueries?

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  1. Can be the object of an IN or NOT IN clause

  2. Can be the object of EXISTS or NOT EXISTS

  3. Support quantifiers ALL, ANY, SOME

  4. Support LIKE or NOT LIKE used with a

  5. Cannot specify more than one column to match

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Correct Option: E

Which of the following is not a DDL statement?
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  1. CREATE

  2. DROP

  3. MODIFY

  4. ALTER

  5. GRANT

  6. REPLACE

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Correct Option: E

Which SELECT statement should you use if you want to display unique combinations of the POSITION and MANAGER values from the EMPLOYEE table?
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  1. SELECT DISTINCT position, manager

  2. SELECT position, manager DISTINCT

  3. SELECT position, manager

  4. SELECT position, DISTINCT manager

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Correct Option: A

Which two are attributes of /SQL*Plus?
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  1. SQL*Plus commands cannot be abbreviated.

  2. SQL*Plus commands are accesses from a browser.

  3. SQL*Plus commands are used to manipulate data in tables.

  4. SQL*Plus commands manipulate table definitions in the database.

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Correct Option: C,D

Which is an /SQL*Plus command?

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  1. Insert

  2. update

  3. select

  4. describe

  5. delete

  6. rename

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Correct Option: D

Evaluate this SQL statement: SELECT e.EMPLOYEE_ID,e.LAST_NAME,e.DEPARTMENT_ID, d.DEPARTMENT_NAME. FROM EMP e, DEPARTMENT d WHERE e.DEPARTMENT_ID = d.DEPARTMENT_ID; In the statement, which capabilities of a SELECT statement are performed?
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  1. Selection, projection, join

  2. Difference, projection, join

  3. Selection, intersection, join

  4. Intersection, projection, join

  5. Difference, projection, product

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Correct Option: A

Which two statements are true regarding the ORDER BY clause?
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  1. The sort is in ascending by order by default

  2. The sort is in descending order by default

  3. The ORDER BY clause must precede the WHERE clause.

  4. The ORDER BY clause is executed on the client side.

  5. The ORDER BY clause comes last in the SELECT statement.

  6. The ORDER BY clause is executed first in the query execution.

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Correct Option: A,E

From SQL*Plus, you issue this SELECT statement: SELECT* From orders; You use this statement to retrieve data from a data table for __________.
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  1. updating

  2. viewing

  3. deleting

  4. inserting

  5. truncating

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Correct Option: B,D

Evaluate this SQL*Plus command: START delaccount Which task will this command accomplish?
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  1. It executes the DELACCOUNT PL/SQL routine.

  2. It runs the DELACCOUNT.SQL script file.

  3. It creates the DELACCOUNT file using the default file extension.

  4. It invokes the editor to edit the contents of the DELACCOUNT file.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

To solve this question, the user needs to have some basic knowledge about SQL*Plus. This command starts a SQL*Plus script from the current directory.

Now, let's go through each option and explain why it is right or wrong:

A. It executes the DELACCOUNT PL/SQL routine. - This option is incorrect as START command is used to start a SQL script or a file and not a PL/SQL routine.

B. It runs the DELACCOUNT.SQL script file. - This option is correct as the START command is used to start a SQL script or a file. Here, the command START delaccount will run the DELACCOUNT.SQL script file.

C. It creates the DELACCOUNT file using the default file extension. - This option is incorrect as the START command is used to start an existing SQL script or file and not for creating a new file.

D. It invokes the editor to edit the contents of the DELACCOUNT file. - This option is incorrect as the START command is used to start an existing SQL script or file and not for invoking the editor to edit the contents of a file.

Therefore, the answer is:

The Answer is: B