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SQL Interview Question

  SQL Interview Question: You are given two unrelated tables: Product — containing product details ProductSubcategory — containing subcategory details There are no common columns , and no foreign key or primary key relationships between them. Task: Write a SQL query to perform a join between these two tables, despite having no direct relationship. Query And Related Table: The problem with the above script is when you have exact match between the "product description" column and "subname" column then this code will work, but let say you have difference like Gadget and Gadgets then in this case the query will fail.  Feel free to post you comments over this solution, my approach would be: 1) Do the match over the letter by letter then count the total letter matched and then total letters if the percentage for this is above 80% then this record must be in the join condition. Basically perform the lookup with the help of SQL code. 2) Make abridge...