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What will CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),GETDATE(),112) give you?
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What are te different kinds of triggers?
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What does the UPDATE(..) function do?
Check to see if the trigger updates a single column.
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What does the COLUMNS_UPDATED() function do?
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What does SUSER_SNAME() do?
Check to see who changed the database.
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How do you get the current date?
GETDATE()
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How do you use the SUBSTRING method and what and
does it do?
- SUBSTRING(COLUMNS_UPDATED(), 1, 1)
- It will determine the current value .
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What does a full backup do?
- copies all pages in the database that are in allocated
- extents.
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What is a differential backup?
copies all pages which have been modified since the last full backup.
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What is a transaction log backup?
- copies the contents of the transaction log since the
- last transaction log backup.
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What is the best strategy to insure adequate
protection in a production environment?
A transaction log backup with a full backup
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Define atomicity
all or nothing rule
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RAW
- generates a single XML element for each row in the result set returned by the query.
- <row>
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for xml auto
- Returns query results in a simple, nested XML tree.
- uses select statement.
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-E
use a trusted connection
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-Sserverinfo
where serverinfo is the string that you place in the “Server Name” textbox when signing into mgmt studio
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-Qquery
- where query is the actual query you want to enter. Make sure you fully qualify the database object in question, for instance:
- –Q”SELECT * FROM banking.dbo.Custs”
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-Ooutputpath
- where outputpath is the full path and name of the file, for instance
- –OCusts.dat
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"/" in xml
The slash is the xpath command for starting at the root.
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"//row"
is an xpath command that says start at the root node and find every occurence of “row”
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Why xml?
XML is a good choice if you want a platform-independent model in order to ensure portability of the data by using structural and semantic markup.
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What does BIDS stand for?
Business Intelligence Development Studio
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