1. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
These questions were emaied to me by a job seeker.
1) How did you generate the PDF on the report builder?
2) How will you develop the report if my organization is having two operating units one is in
India and one is US. I want two operating units data in the report separately? How?
3) If I run the report with query like select * from emp? First which trigger will fire?
4) In which directory init.ora is stored.
5) I want to get a particular report periodically to my email account how?
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2. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
6) Where you will execute your pl/sql code in reports i.e. in which trigger?
7) Performance point of view which is good? Decode or case?
8) How u reduce the time execution of query?
9) How do you track a Request Set? If an error occurs in the first program in a Request Set, I
need to control the execution of other programs in the Request Set, How do you achieve this
11) How can I join if I have one set of books and 5 operating units?
12) How will you debug your reports?
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3. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
13) Suppose I have written one report no data is found. How will you tell the user that no data
found. After the end of report means last page user should be able to see the message end of
report
14) Can we set Index for primary key? If so what is the name of the Index?
15) How to find how many ‘a’ are there in the specified string ‘aasfdhhjkgjaaaa’?
16) Can we pass Pl/sql table as a parameter to another procedure or not if so how to pass?
17) Can you use placeholder column with out using formula column?
18) How do you stop inserting records after 50 records are inserted from flat file through
sql*loader
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4. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
19) Why an application is needed in creation of responsibility at 3 places, After Responsibility
Name, After Data Group, After Request Group?
20) I need one gap for every 3 rows in a report. How?
21) Is v$parameter updatable?
22) Develop a report to change color for maximum and minimum salaries, what is the logic?
23) Try to find positive salary on one column and negative salary on one column
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5. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
24) Try to find total members belong to each department and find all the total members
25) Can I have a report with out data model query?
26) I need to return two values from a function. How?
27) How u reduce the time execution of query?
28) I developed a master child report using link option. One report I have developed using joins
in single query and I separated by dragging the master group. Now the question which performs
better. Why?
29) When you query Multi-Org tables in SQL*Plus or any tool (like TOAD), we get zero rows,
though actually those tables got data? What is the reason? What do you do then?
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6. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
30) What is auto reduction?
31) Can we define cursor inside package if so how to call cursors inside the package?
32) When you will go for XML reports and when you will go for Discoverer reports.
33) How will you get the legacy system from your client?
34) Once we transfer the Invoice Data from AP to GL in which column we can find that
We have transferred or not?
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7. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
35) What are hidden values?
36) Can you generate the numbers in triggers?
37) How to print your client name in the report?
38) Suppose we have created one table value set and in that we are getting duplicate rows.
How can we avoid the duplicate rows from table value set?
39) How many ways are there to receive the flat file from the client?
40) Instead of flat file, we will receive other one from client .what is that?
41) We use standard program to move values from interface table to base tables. Instead of
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8. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
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Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
the using the standard program, I want to use API .what is that API?
42) Instead of using the staging table can we use the global temporary table?
43) In between the MD50 and MD70 we receive one issue. What is that?
48) Suppose I have given a functional spec, What are the steps we do from receiving functional
spec (md50) to delivery process?
44) If supplier will send bid quotation? Is it possible to create standard PO?
45) Suppose I have 100 records are there? 50 records went to interface table and 50 records
are errored out? Now what we have to do? Either correcting/deleting/updatable? if u are
correcting means how to correct it?
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9. Further Tecnical Apps Interview Questions
Written by Anil Passi
Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:48
46) What is the difference between supplier and vendor?
47) In which table the damaged good information is stored?
50) How will you register the concurrent program through UNIX?
51) While customizing how will you work with bit maps. What will you do before customizing and
before ftp the file to the local directory?
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