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Start Database Structures And SQL PracticeA business user needs to calculate the average age of customers, but some age fields are NULL. Which function should be used to treat NULL as 0?
Explanation: COALESCE returns the first non-NULL value from its arguments, so COALESCE(age, 0) substitutes 0 wherever age is NULL, allowing the average to be computed without NULL propagation. This is the standard SQL function for NULL substitution and is supported across major RDBMS platforms.
A transaction involves multiple updates that must either all succeed or all fail. Which command ensures this behavior?
Explanation: COMMIT is the command that permanently writes the transaction's changes to the database and makes them durable, finalizing the all-or-nothing unit of work. When all statements in a transaction succeed, COMMIT atomically persists them; if any fail before COMMIT, a ROLLBACK (explicit or implicit) discards the entire transaction, satisfying atomicity.
Which command is used to restrict a user's access to a specific table?
Explanation: REVOKE is the SQL command used to remove previously granted privileges from a user, including table-level access. It directly restricts a user's access by withdrawing permissions that were granted with GRANT.
Which THREE of the following are considered ACID properties in database transactions?
Explanation: Atomicity (A) is a core ACID property because it guarantees that a transaction is treated as a single all-or-nothing unit: either every statement commits or the entire transaction rolls back, so partial updates never persist. Consistency (C) is correct because it requires a transaction to move the database from one valid state to another, preserving all defined constraints, schemas, and integrity rules. Isolation (E) is correct because it ensures concurrently executing transactions do not interfere with each other, with the database behaving as if transactions ran serially, typically enforced through locking or MVCC at a chosen isolation level. Scalability (B) and Availability (D) do not belong here: they are distributed-systems quality attributes often associated with the CAP theorem (Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance) or with performance goals, not transactional ACID guarantees.
A financial analyst needs to calculate the total sales for each product category, but only for orders placed in the last quarter. The Orders table contains order_date and order_total, and the Products table contains product_id and category. Which SQL query correctly returns the category and total sales for the last quarter?
Explanation: The correct query joins the tables, filters orders to the last quarter, groups by category, and sums the order totals. It uses GROUP BY on the category only, ensuring one row per category with the total sales. The other options either omit grouping, over-group, or filter out valid categories.
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