SET NUMERIC ROUNDABORT

What will be the output of the following scripts?

SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT ON
SET ARITHABORT ON
GO
DECLARE @c NUMERIC(5, 2),
   @a NUMERIC(5, 4), 
   @b NUMERIC(5, 4)
SET @a = 1.1234
SET @b = 1.1234 
SELECT @c = @a + @b
SELECT @c

A. 2.24
B. 2.25
C. Error message: Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric.
D. 2.2468

Answer:[C]
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Get numbers from 1 to 999 with a query

WITH tblDigit(d) AS (
   SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2 UNION SELECT 3 UNION
   SELECT 4 UNION SELECT 5 UNION SELECT 6 UNION
   SELECT 7 UNION SELECT 8 UNION SELECT 9 UNION
   SELECT 0)
SELECT t1.d + t2.d * 10 + t3.d*100 AS Number
FROM   tblDigit t1, tblDigit t2, tblDigit t3
WHERE t1.d + t2.d + t3.d >0
ORDER BY t1.d + t2.d*10 + t3.d*100

Defragment indexes

You are writing a new stored procedure to perform maintenance on your SQL Server 2005 databases that defragment the indexes in an online manner. What command should you use?

A. DBCC DBREINDEX
B. DBCC INDEXDEFRAG
C. ALTER INDEX with the REORGANIZE option
D. ALTER INDEX with the LOB_COMPACTION option set to OFF

Answer:[C]
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Logical join

Do you know the difference between logical join and physical join?
What are not logical join?

A. INNER JOIN
B. LEFT JOIN
C. RIGHT JOIN
D. MERGE JOIN
E. SELF JOIN
F. CROSS JOIN

Answer:[D]
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Page size again

Do you remember pages in SQL Server?
Your SQL Server database log file is 5MB. How many pages are allocated to it?

A. 0
B. 640
C. 320
D. 80
E. It depends

Answer:[A]
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Page size

Do you remember pages in SQL Server?
In SQL Server, the page size is _____

A. 1KB
B. 8KB
C. 16KB
D. 64KB
E. 125KB
F. 256KB

Answer:[B]
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Find output

How many rows will be returned in the following scripts?
DECLARE @Test TABLE(TestValue CHAR(1))
INSERT INTO @Test
SELECT 'A'UNION SELECT 'B'
UNION SELECT 'C'UNION SELECT 'D'
UNION SELECT 'E'
SELECT DISTINCT CAST(5 * RAND(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) + 1 as INT) AS RandomValue
FROM @Test

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
F. It depends

Answer:[F]
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Find output

How many rows will be returned in the following scripts?
DECLARE @Test TABLE(TestValue CHAR(1))
INSERT INTO @Test
SELECT 'A'UNION SELECT 'B'
UNION SELECT 'C'UNION SELECT 'D'
UNION SELECT 'E'
SELECT DISTINCT CAST(5 * RAND() + 1 as INT) AS RandomValue
FROM @Test

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
F. It depends

Answer:[A]
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Access To MySQL

Access To MySQL: "Access to MySQL is a small program that will convert Microsoft Access Databases to MySQL.

* Wizard interface.
* Transfer data directly from one server to another.
* Create a dump file.
* Select tables to transfer.
* Select fields to transfer.
* Transfer password protected databases.
* Supports both shared security and user-level security.
* Optional transfer of indexes.
* Optional transfer of records.
* Optional transfer of default values in field definitions.
* Identifies and transfers auto number field types.
* Command line interface.
* Easy install, uninstall and upgrade.

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Find output

How many rows will be returned in the following scripts?

DECLARE @DBMS TABLE(DBMS VARCHAR(15))
INSERT INTO @DBMS
SELECT 'SQL Server'
UNION SELECT 'MySQL'
UNION SELECT 'DB2'
UNION SELECT 'Oracle'
UNION SELECT 'PostgreSQL'
UNION SELECT 'SQLite'
UNION SELECT 'Access'
UNION SELECT 'EnterpriseDB'
DECLARE @DBMSValue VARCHAR
SET @DBMSValue = 'SQL'
SELECT * FROM @DBMS WHERE DBMS LIKE '%' + @DBMSValue + '%'

A. 0
B. 2
C. 4
D. 6
E. 8
F. Error will be generated

Answer:[D]
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