SQL Server Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked

Vibrant Publishers

• Editorial: Vibrant Publishers
• Año: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781946383051
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Informatica
• Categoría: Programmazione in SQL

· 290 SQL Server Interview Questions

· 76 HR Interview Questions

· Real life scenario based questions

· Strategies to respond to interview questions

· 2 Aptitude Tests

SQL Server interview questions you'll most likely be asked is a perfect companion to stand a head above the rest in today's competitive job market. Rather than going through comprehensive, textbook-sized reference guides, this book includes only the information required immediately for job search to build an it career. This book puts the Interviewee in the driver's seat and helps them steer their way to impress the interviewer.

The following is included in this book:

(a) 290 SQL Server interview questions, answers and proven strategies for getting hired as DBA

(b) Dozens of scenario based examples to respond to interview questions

(c) 76 HR questions with answers and proven strategies to give specific, impressive, answers that help nail the interviews

(d) 2 Aptitude Tests download available on www.vibrantpublishers.com

INDEX

SQL Server Interview Questions

Engine Enhancements

1: List out the major engine enhancements in SQL Server 2005 database engine

2: List three major Programmability Enhancements in SQL Server 2005 database engine.

3: List four major Manageability Enhancements in SQL Server 2005 database engine.

4: List the major Security Enhancements in SQL Server 2005 database engine.

5: SQL Server offers a fully integrated hybrid solution. Explain.

6: What are the features of SQL Server?

7: List the new availability enhancements supported in SQL Server 2012.

8: What are the features of SQL Server supported in Enterprise Edition?

9: What are the features of SQL Server supported in Business Intelligence Edition?

10: How do availability enhancements support for Windows server core?

11: What is the benefit of Recovery Advisor?

12: What are the scalability and performance enhancements available in SQL Server?

13: What are the Manageability Enhancements of SQL Server 2012?

14: What are the security enhancements of SQL Server?

15: What are the programmability enhancements of SQL Server?

16: Explain DAC enhancements.

17: Explain how SQL Server supports tight integration with SQL Azure.

18: Explain Resource Governor Enhancements.

19: Explain Columnstore Index.

20: Explain the partition support enhancements in SQL Server.

21: How can SQL Server achieve maximum scalability?

22: What are the additional features included in SQL Server Management Studio?

23: What is the use of Contained Databases?

24: What is the use of FileTable?

25: Explain Full Text search enhancement.

26: What are the editions of SQL Server 2012?

27: What is an in-place upgrade?

28: What are the benefits of side-by-side migration over an in-place upgrade?

29: What are the high level steps performed for Step-by-Step migration?

30: What are the advantages of In-Place upgrade in SQL Server?

Availability and Disaster Recovery Enhancements

31: Explain the Availability modes supported by SQL Server.

32: What do you know about the Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server?

33: Explain Failover in AlwaysOn.

34: How do you design a backup and recovery solution to the SQL Server database?

35: What is the strategy used for high availability and disaster recovery with SQL server versions prior to 2012?

36: What is the issue with Database mirroring?

37: What is the issue with Log shipping?

38: What are the new features for high availability and disaster recovery introduced in SQL Server 2012?

39: What are the high level benefits of AlwaysOn Availability Groups?

40: What are the high level benefits of AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances?

41: What is the benefit of synchronous and asynchronous data movement in AlwaysOn Availability Groups?

42: What steps should be followed while deploying AlwaysOn Availability Groups?

43: What are the features in AlwaysOn Availability Groups?

44: What are Active Secondaries?

45: What are the benefits of secondaries in AlwaysOn Availability Groups?

46: What are the connection modes available in secondaries?

47: What are the failover modes in Availability Groups?

48: What is the availability group listener?

49: How will you configure availability group listener?

50: What are the deployment configuration steps for HA and DR requirements?

51: What are the deployment alternatives for Disaster Recovery?

52: How are availability groups monitored in SQL Server 2012?

53: What is monitored with the availability groups’ dashboard?

54: What are the features of AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances?

55: Name all operating systems that sup...