Question 1
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Which symbol do you use if you need to choose all the columns from the table to the result query?
Question 2
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Which is right order of the following clauses?
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SELECT … FROM … GROUP BY … ORDER BY … WHERE
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SELECT … WHERE … ORDER BY … GROUP BY
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SELECT … FROM … WHERE … GROUP BY … ORDER BY
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SELECT … FROM … WHERE … ORDER BY … GROUP BY
Question 3
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Which symbol is used to create a substitution variable?
Question 4
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Which keyword is used to provide an alias to a column?
Question 5
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Which command is used to view the structure of the table LOCATIONS?
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DESCRIBE LOCATIONS
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SELECT * FROM LOCATIONS
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SHOW STRUCTURE LOCATIONS
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PRINT LOCATIONS
Question 6
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Which of the following is a concatenation operator?
Question 7
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Which keyword is used to eliminate duplicate rows in the result?
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DESCRIBE
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GROUP BY
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HAVING
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DISTINCT
Question 8
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Which of the following operations is an analogue to the CONCAT function?
Question 9
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When using LIKE conditions which symbol is used to denote zero or many characters?
Question 10
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When using LIKE conditions which symbol is used to denote one character?
Question 11
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Which of the following clauses is used to limit the rows that are retrieved by the query?
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WHERE
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FROM
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ORDER BY
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GROUP BY
Question 12
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Which of the following clauses is used to sort the rows that are retrieved by the query?
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WHERE
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FROM
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ORDER BY
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GROUP BY
Question 13
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Which of the following functions extracts a string of determined length?
Question 14
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Which of the following functions finds the numeric position of a named character?
Question 15
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Which of the following functions joins two strings together?
Question 16
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Which of the following functions is not single-row function?
Question 17
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Which of the following functions is not multiple-row function?
Question 18
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FULL OUTER JOIN is used when
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each row of one table must be join with each row of another table
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each row of one table must be join with each row of another table even if the tables do not have any columns in common
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the rows from both tables must be displayed even if they do not satisfy the JOIN condition
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a Cartesian product of the two tables must be displayed
Question 19
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Queries that return only one row from the inner SELECT statement are called
Question 20
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Queries that return more than one row from the inner SELECT statement are called
Question 21
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The _______operator compares a value to each value returned by a subquery.
Question 22
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The ________operator compares a value to every value returned by a subquery.
Question 23
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Subqueries have the following characteristics:
I. Can pass one row of data to a main statement that contains a single-row operator, such as =, <>, >, >=, <, or <=
II. Can pass multiple rows of data to a main statement that contains a multiple-row operator, such as IN
III. Are processed first by the Oracle server, after which the WHERE or HAVING clause uses the results
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I and III
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I, II, and III
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I and II
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I only
Question 24
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A SELECT statement that is embedded in a clause of another SELECT statement is called
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subquery
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inner query
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outer query
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main query
Question 25
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You can place the subquery in a number of SQL clauses, including the following:
I. WHERE clause
II. HAVING clause
III. FROM clause
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I and III
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I, II and III
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I and II
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I only
Question 26
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Comparison conditions fall into two classes:
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single-row operators (>, =, >=, <, <>, <=) and multiple-column operators (IN, ANY, ALL)
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single-column operators (>, =, >=, <, <>, <=) and multiple-column operators (IN, ANY, ALL)
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multiple-row operators (>, =, >=, <, <>, <=) and single-row operators (IN, ANY, ALL)
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single-row operators (>, =, >=, <, <>, <=) and multiple-row operators (IN, ANY, ALL)
Question 27
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The subquery generally executes_________, and its output is used to complete the query condition for the main (or_________) query.
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last, outer
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first, inner
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last, inner
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first, outer
Question 28
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A subquery must be enclosed in_________________.
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curly braces
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double quotes
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single quotes
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parentheses
Question 29
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_________ clause can be used and is required in the subquery to perform Top-N analysis.
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ORDER BY
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HAVING
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WHERE
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GROUP BY
Question 30
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Which of the following operators is equivalent to the IN operator?
Question 31
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Queries containing set operators are called______________.
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outer queries
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compound queries
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subqueries
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inner queries
Question 32
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The _____________operator returns all rows that are selected by either query eliminating duplicates.
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INTERSECT
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UNION
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MINUS
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UNION ALL
Question 33
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Use the ________________operator to return all rows from multiple tables and eliminate any duplicate rows.
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UNION ALL
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UNION
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MINUS
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INTERSECT
Question 34
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_______________ returns all rows selected by either query, including all duplicates.
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NTERSECT
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MINUS
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UNION
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UNION ALL
Question 35
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Use the __________________operator to return all rows that are common to multiple queries.
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UNION
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UNION ALL
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MINUS
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INTERSECT
Question 36
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Use the ______________operator to return rows returned by the first query that are not present in the second query.
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MINUS
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INTERSECT
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UNION
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UNION ALL
Question 37
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Which statement discards all pending data changes
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DISCARD
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SAVEPOINT
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ROLLBACK
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COMMIT
Question 38
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Which of the following commands removes rows and a table structure?
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REMOVE TABLE
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ALTER TABLE
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DROP TABLE
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DELETE TABLE
Question 39
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Which of the following commands is a part of the Data Manipulation Language?
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TRUNCATE
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DROP
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ALTER
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SELECT
Question 40
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Which of the following commands is a part of the Data Definition Language?
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DELETE
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UPDATE
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SELECT
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CREATE
Question 41
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Which of the following constraints does not exist?
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UNIQUE
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CHECK
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NOT NULL
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DEFAULT
Question 42
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Consider the EMPLOYEES table. Which of the following SQL statements is correct to display the last name of the employee with its hire date providing the Employee and Hire Date aliases (case is important)?
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SELECT last_name AS 'Employee', hire_date AS 'Hire Date' FROM employees;
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SELECT last_name "Employee", hire_date "Hire Date" FROM employees;
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SELECT last_name Employee, hire_date Hire Date FROM employees;
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SELECT last_name AS Employee, hire_date AS Hire Date FROM employees;
Question 43
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Consider the EMPLOYEES table. Which of the following SQL statements is correct to provide the sentence in the format "King has been working since 01.01.1987" with "Employee Information" alias?
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SELECT last_name || ' has been working since ' || hire_date Employee Information FROM employees;
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SELECT last_name || ' has been working since ' || hire_date 'Employee Information' FROM employees;
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SELECT last_name || " has been working since " || hire_date "Employee Information" FROM employees;
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SELECT last_name || ' has been working since ' || hire_date "Employee Information" FROM employees;
Question 44
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What will be the result of the following SQL statement?
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he number of employees within each department will be displayed
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An error will occur since the GROUP BY clause is missing
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The unique department ids will be displayed
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The number of departments will be displayed
Question 45
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Which of the following SQL statements will not generate an error?
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SELECT department_id Dep, COUNT(last_name) Num FROM employees GROUP BY department_id HAVING Num > 5
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SELECT department_id Dep, COUNT(last_name) FROM employees GROUP BY Dep
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SELECT last_name Name FROM employees WHERE Name like 'K%'
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SELECT last_name Name FROM employees ORDER BY Name
Question 46
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Consider the EMPLOYEES table. Which condition in the WHERE clause limit the employees to those whose salary is greater than 5000 but less than 18000?
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WHERE salary > 5000 AND salary > 18000
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WHERE salary > 5000 AND salary < 18000
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WHERE salary < 5000 AND salary > 18000
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WHERE salary > 5000 OR salary < 18000
Question 47
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Consider the EMPLOYEES table. Which condition in the WHERE clause limit the employees to IT programmers with salary greater than 5000?
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WHERE salary > 5000 AND job_id = 'IT_PROG'
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WHERE salary > 5000 OR job_id = 'IT_PROG'
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WHERE salary > 5000 AND job_id = "IT_PROG"
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WHERE salary > 5000 AND job_id = IT_PROG
Question 48
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Consider the EMPLOYEES table. Which condition in the WHERE clause limit the employees to those who work in the departments 90 and 60?
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WHERE department_id BETWEEN 60 AND 90
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WHERE department_id BETWEEN 90 AND 60
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WHERE department_id = 90 OR department_id = 60
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WHERE department_id = 90 AND department_id = 60
Question 49
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Consider the EMPLOYEES table. Which condition in the WHERE clause limit the employees to those who do not work in the departments 90 and 60?
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WHERE department_id = 90 OR department_id = 60
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WHERE department_id NOT IN (90, 60)
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WHERE department_id = 90 AND department_id = 60
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WHERE department_id IN (90, 60)
Question 50
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Consider the EMPLOYEES table. Which condition in the WHERE clause limit the employees to those whose last name and first name starts with the letter ‘K’?
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WHERE last_name LIKE 'K%' and first_name LIKE 'K%'
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WHERE last_name LIKE 'K_' and first_name LIKE 'K_'
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WHERE last_name = 'K%' and first_name = 'K%'
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WHERE last_name and first_name = 'K%'