Interview Questions

The function setcookie() is used to define a cookie that is to be sent along with HTTP headers. The cookie must be sent prior to any output from the script as is the protocol restriction. After setting the cookies, they can be used when the next page is loaded by using $_COOKIE or $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS arrays.

Inheritance is the ability to create new classes based on existing classes. It is useful to reuse existing code.

An index is a object which is used to improve performance during retrieval of records.

CREATE [UNIQUE] INDEX index_name 

ON employee[emp_id, emp_name,dept_id]

[COMPUTE STATISTICS]

The UNIQUE keyword is used when combined values of the index should be unique.

The COMPUTE STATISTICS during the creation of index optimizes the plan of execution of the SQL statement and improves performance.

An SQL statement is a string of characters that conforms to the syntax and format specified in the international standard.

A query is a statement that returns a record-set.

Open Market Operations (OMO) refer to the buying and selling of government securities in the open market in order to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system.

CONSTRUCTOR : PHP allows developers to declare constructor methods for classes. Classes which have a constructor method call this method on each newly-created object, so it is suitable for any initialization that the object may need before it is used.

DESTRUCTORS : PHP 5 introduces a destructor concept similar to that of other object-oriented languages, such as C++. The destructor method will be called as soon as all references to a particular object are removed or when the object is explicitly destroyed or in any order in shutdown sequence.

Smart money is a term used for credit card.