Have a sql interview next week and I’m honestly not great at sql. I’ve been studying for a week and don’t feel any better. I feel like there’s a high likelihood of me bombing it - how can I tactfully express during the interview if I don’t know how to solve a problem?

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"that's an interesting question. Let's take this offline and I will circle back with you later."

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Lol I’m well versed in that phrase, unfortunately it won’t save me here 😓

If they’re looking for someone super proficient in SQL and you aren’t, than that’s not a fit for either parties... that’s what interviews are for.

However sometimes during SQL interviews I’ve found theyre more interested in what data you would pull vs the exact script you’d write. Depends on role

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Leetcode!!

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Try the easy ones first, if you aren’t able to solve them try as much as you can and then maybe search google, sql comes with a little experience and learning! Keep trying 😊

I think if you don’t know how to answer you should explain you don’t know the exact syntax but the logic would be as follows.. then explain as best as you can how to solve. You can always follow up with if I encountered this on the job I’d use x, y, z resource to look up good examples of how to do this

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