What is LINQ?

Correct Answer: They get stored in System Catalog Views sysserver_principals and syssql_logins

Correct Answer: Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of database and transaction log files on a production SQL server, and then restoring them onto a standby server Enterprise Editions only supports log shipping In log shipping the transactional log file from one server is automatically updated into the backup database on the other server If one server fails, the other server will have the same db and can be used this as the Disaster Recovery plan The key feature of log shipping is that it will automatically backup transaction logs throughout the day and automatically restore them on the standby server at defined interval

Correct Answer: SQL Server can be linked to any server provided it has OLE-DB provider from Microsoft to allow a link Eg Oracle has an OLE-DB provider for oracle that Microsoft provides to add it as linked server to SQL Server group

Correct Answer: Delete command removes the rows from a table based on the condition that we provide with a WHERE clause Truncate will actually remove all the rows from a table and there will be no data in the table after we run the truncate command TRUNCATE: - TRUNCATE is faster and uses fewer system and transaction log resources than DELETE - TRUNCATE removes the data by deallocating the data pages used to store the table's data, and only the page deallocations are recorded in the transaction log - TRUNCATE removes all rows from a table, but the table structure, its columns, constraints, indexes and so on, remains The counter used by an identity for new rows is reset to the seed for the column - You cannot use TRUNCATE TABLE on a table referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint Because TRUNCATE TABLE is not logged, it cannot activate a trigger - TRUNCATE cannot be rolled back - TRUNCATE is DDL Command - TRUNCATE Resets identity of the table DELETE: - DELETE removes rows one at a time and records an entry in the transaction log for each deleted row - If you want to retain the identity counter, use DELETE instead If you want to remove table definition and its data, use the DROP TABLE statement - DELETE Can be used with or without a WHERE clause - DELETE Activates Triggers - DELETE can be rolled back - DELETE is DML Command - DELETE does not reset identity of the table Note: DELETE and TRUNCATE both can be rolled back when surrounded by TRANSACTION if the current session is not closed If TRUNCATE is written in Query Editor surrounded by TRANSACTION and if session is closed, it can not be rolled back but DELETE can be rolled back

Correct Answer: - A clustered index is a special type of index that reorders the way records in the table are physically stored Therefore table can have only one clustered index The leaf nodes of a clustered index contain the data pages - A non clustered index is a special type of index in which the logical order of the index does not match the physical stored order of the rows on disk The leaf node of a non clustered index does not consist of the data pages Instead, the leaf nodes contain index rows

Correct Answer: Aggregate functions perform a calculation on a set of values and return a single value Aggregate functions ignore NULL values except COUNT function HAVING clause is used, along with GROUP BY, for filtering query using aggregate values Following functions are aggregate functions AVG, MIN CHECKSUM_AGG, SUM, COUNT, STDEV, COUNT_BIG, STDEVP, GROUPING, VAR, MAX VARP

Correct Answer: Master database is system database and it contains information about running server's configuration When SQL Server 2005 is installed it usually creates master, model, msdb, tempdb resource and distribution system database by default Only Master database is th one which is absolutely must have database Without Master database SQL Server cannot be started This is the reason it is extremely important to backup Master database To rebuild the Master database, Run Setupexe, verify, and repair a SQL Server instance, and rebuild the system databases This procedure is most often used to rebuild the master database for a corrupted installation of SQL Server

Correct Answer: In SQL, UNION merges the contents of two structurally-compatible tables into a single combined table

Correct Answer: One of the most common errors that you might face in join statements is Server: Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The multi-part identifier could not be bound A multipart identifier is any description of a field or table that contains multiple parts - for instance MyTableSomeRow - if it can't be bound that means there's something wrong with it - either you've got a simple typo, or a confusion between table and column It can also be caused by using reserved words in your table or field names and not surrounding them with [] The main reason for this error is that the source table cannot be found, for example if you have statement such as Table1OrderDate, and then if you get error above, this means that Table1 cannot be found in the query Sometimes you can see that source table exists in the query, but T-SQL cannot understand it, especially when you write join statements

Correct Answer: IS NULL operator

Explanation:

SELECT "column_name"

FROM "table_name"

WHERE "column_name" IS NULL.