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How do you specify and use a cursor in a COBOL program?
DB2 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
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How do you specify and use a cursor in a COBOL program?
Use DECLARE CURSOR statement either in working storage or in procedure division(before open cursor), to specify the SELECT statement. Then use OPEN, FETCH rows in a loop and finally CLOSE.
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Other Interview Questions
- How would you find out the total number of rows in a DB2 table?
- How do you eliminate duplicate values in DB2 SELECT ?
- How do you select a row using indexes in DB2?
- How do you find the maximum value in a column in DB2?
- How do you retrieve the first 5 characters of FIRSTNAME column of DB2 table EMP ?
- What are aggregate functions?
- Can you use MAX on a CHAR column?
- My SQL statement SELECT AVG(SALARY) FROM EMP yields inaccurate results. Why?
- How do you concatenate the FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME from EMP table to give a complete name?
- What is the use of VALUE function?
- What is UNION,UNION ALL?
- What is the restriction on using UNION in embedded SQL?
- In the WHERE clause what is BETWEEN and IN?
- Is BETWEEN inclusive of the range values specified?
- What is 'LIKE' used for in WHERE clause? What are the wildcard characters?
- When do you use a LIKE statement?
- What is the meaning of underscore ( _ ) in the LIKE statement?
- What do you accomplish by GROUP BY ... HAVING clause?
- Consider the employee table with column PROJECT nullable. How can you get a list of employees who are not assigned to any project?
- What is the result of this query if no rows are selected:
- Why SELECT * is not preferred in embedded SQL programs?
- What are correlated subqueries?
- What is a cursor? why should it be used?
- How would you retrieve rows from a DB2 table in embedded SQL?
- How do you specify and use a cursor in a COBOL program?
- What happens when you say OPEN CURSOR?
- Is DECLARE CURSOR executable?
- Can you have more than one cursor open at any one time in a program ?
- When you COMMIT, is the cursor closed? - drona questions
- How do you leave the cursor open after issuing a COMMIT? ( for DB2 2.3 or above only )
- A VARCHAR column REMARKS would be defined as follows:
- What is the physical storage length of each of the following DB2 data types:
- What is the COBOL picture clause of the following DB2 data types:
- What is the COBOL picture clause for a DB2 column defined as DECIMAL(11,2)?
- What is DCLGEN ?
- What are the contents of a DCLGEN?
- Is it mandatory to use DCLGEN? If not, why would you use it at all?
- Is DECLARE TABLE in DCLGEN necessary? Why it used?
- Will precompile of an DB2-COBOL program bomb, if DB2 is down?
- How is a typical DB2 batch pgm executed ?
- Name some fields from SQLCA.
- How can you quickly find out the # of rows updated after an update statement?
- What is EXPLAIN?
- What do you need to do before you do EXPLAIN?
- Where is the output of EXPLAIN stored?
- EXPLAIN has output with MATCHCOLS = 0. What does it mean?
- How do you do the EXPLAIN of a dynamic SQL statement?
- How do you simulate the EXPLAIN of an embedded SQL statement in SPUFI/QMF? Give an example with a host variable in WHERE clause.)
- What are the isolation levels possible ?
- What is the difference between CS and RR isolation levels?
- Where do you specify them ?
- What are the various locking levels available?
- How does DB2 determine what lock-size to use?
- What is lock escalation?
- What are the various locks available?
- Can I use LOCK TABLE on a view?
- What is ALTER ?
- What is a DBRM, PLAN ?
- What is ACQUIRE/RELEASE in BIND?
- What else is there in the PLAN apart from the access path?
- What happens to the PLAN if index used by it is dropped?
- What are PACKAGES ?
- What are the advantages of using a PACKAGE?
- What is a collection?
- What are the 2 sqlcodes that are returned?
- How would you print the output of an SQL statement from SPUFI?
- Lot of updates have been done on a table due to which indexes have gone haywire. What do you do?
- What is dynamic SQL?
- When is the access path determined for dynamic SQL?
- Suppose I have a program which uses a dynamic SQL and it has been performing well till now. Off late, I find that the performance has deteriorated. What happened?
- How does DB2 store NULL physically?
- How do you retrieve the data from a nullable column?
- What is the picture clause of the null indicator variable?
- What does it mean if the null indicator has -1, 0, -2?
- How do you insert a record with a nullable column?
- What is RUNSTATS?
- When will you chose to run RUNSTATS?
- Give some example of statistics collected during RUNSTATS?
- What is REORG? When is it used?
- What is IMAGECOPY ?
- When do you use the IMAGECOPY?
- What is COPY PENDING status?
- What is CHECK PENDING ?
- What is QUIESCE?
- What is a clustering index ?
- How many clustering indexes can be defined for a table?
- What is the difference between primary key and unique index ?
- What is sqlcode -922 ?
- What is sqlcode -811?
- What does the sqlcode of -818 pertain to?
- Are views updateable ?
- If I have a view which is a join of two or more tables, can this view be updateable?
- What are the 4 environments which can access DB2 ?
- What is an inner join, and an outer join ?
- What is FREEPAGE and PCTFREE in TABLESPACE creation?
- What are simple, segmented and partitioned table spaces ?
- What is filter factor?
- What is index cardinality?
- What is a synonym ?
- What is the difference between SYNONYM and ALIAS?
- What do you mean by NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT? When will you use it?
- What do you mean by NOT NULL? When will you use it?
- When would you prefer to use VARCHAR?
- What are the disadvantages of using VARCHAR?
- How do I create a table MANAGER ( EMP#, MANAGER) where MANAGER is a foreign key which references to EMP# in the same table? Give the exact DDL.
- What is auditing?
- What does WITH HOLD option do ?
- How do you read vsam file?
- What is a NULL value? What are the pros and cons of using NULLS?
- How to increase table space in DB2?
- What is a synonym? How is it used?
- What is a precompiler?
- At what stage DB2 must be up?
- What is check pending and copy pending status in D...
- What techniques are used to retrieve data from more than one table in a single SQL statement?
- How do we unload the DB2 tables using JCL?
- How to read last record in vsam file.,I don't know how many records are there?
- What is a clustered index?
- What is a thread?
- What is a DB2 bind?
- Explain difference between sys.cat and sys.ibm?
- What is the difference between IN subselects and EXISTS subselect?
- What is performance tuning in DB2?
- Is there any advantage to denormalizing DB2 tables?
- What is difference between 911 and 913 error code in DB2 ?
- How will you send data from a cobol file to DB2 table?
- What is a DB2 plan?
- How To perform Performance Tunning on COBOL-DB2 program ?
- What is stored in tables under creator SYSIBM?
- Can anyone tell me when do we need a COLLECTION? I know the concept of PLAN and PACKAGE, but unable to understand about COLLECTION.
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