Nidhi Gupta
7 min readJul 29, 2023

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Azure Data Engineering Interview Questions

Data engineering plays a critical role in the world of data science and analytics.

In this article, I will be sharing questions that I have faced during the interview process i.e., asked in product and service-based companies.

  1. Write an SQL query to find a day on which the weather temperature is higher than the previous day.

create table weather
(id int,
recorddate date,
temperature int);

insert into weather values(1,’2015–01–01',10),(2,’2015–01–02',25),(3,’2015–01–03',20),(4,’2015–01–04',30);

select t.Id from Weather as t, Weather as y
where Datediff (t.RecordDate, y.RecordDate) =1
and t.Temperature > y.Temperature;

2. Write an SQL to get the sum of total purchases by category.
if you see the total purchases of fruits; which is the sum of banana and Apple i.e.10, similarly the total purchases of the four vegetables should be the sum of the vegetables i.e.44
So can you please write a query SQL query that will take this as input and you will have a new column that is total purchases?

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Nidhi Gupta
Nidhi Gupta

Written by Nidhi Gupta

Azure Data Engineer 👨‍💻.Heading towards cloud technologies expertise✌️.