SQL Server Questions and Answers – Procedural Flow

This set of SQL Server Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Procedural Flow”.

1. Which of the following language is used for procedural flow in SQL Server?
a) Flow language
b) Control language
c) Control-of-flow language
d) None of the mentioned
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2. Point out the correct statement.
a) Control-of-flow language permits statements to be connected, related to each other, and made interdependent using programming-like constructs
b) Control-of-flow statements cannot span multiple batches, user-defined functions, or stored procedures
c) Control-of-flow words are useful when you need to direct Transact-SQL to take some kind of action
d) All of the mentioned
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3. Which of the following is a control flow keyword?
a) IF
b) GO
c) GOTO
d) All of the mentioned
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4. Which of the following code snippet is valid control flow statement?
a)

IF (@@Error  0)
   ROLLBACK
ELSE
   COMMIT
END

b)

IF (@@Error  0)
   ROLLBACK

c)

IF (@@Error  0)
   ROLLBACK
ELSE
   END

d) All of the mentioned
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5. Point out the wrong statement.
a) GOTO can exist within conditional control-of-flow statements, statement blocks, or procedures
b) GOTO permissions need not be granted to any user
c) GOTO statements can be nested
d) None of the mentioned
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6. Which of the following two Transact-SQL statements are commonly used with WHILE?
a) BREAK and CONTINUE
b) BREAK and IF
c) IF and ELSE
d) All of the mentioned
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7. Which of the following scenario makes use of BEGIN..END keyword redundant?
a) when an IF statement controls the execution of multiple Transact-SQL statement
b) when an IF statement controls the execution of only one Transact-SQL statement
c) when an IF statement controls the execution of one or more Transact-SQL statement
d) none of the mentioned
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8. The BEGIN and END statements are used when ____________
a) A WHILE loop needs to include a block of statements
b) An element of a CASE expression needs to include a block of statements
c) An IF or ELSE clause needs to include a block of statements
d) All of the mentioned
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9. Which of the following components constitutes use CASE expression?
a) The primary key name to transform
b) The BEGIN keyword
c) The CASE keyword
d) Where clause defining an alias for the CASE expression
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10. The following code snippet uses the DELAY keyword to wait for ______ seconds.

WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:02';
SELECT BusinessEntityID FROM 
AdventureWorks2008R2.HumanResources.Employee;

a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
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