You create a table that has the StudentCode, SubjectCode, and Marks columns to record mid-year
marks for students. The table has marks obtained by 50 students for various subjects.
You need to ensure that the following requirements are met:
Students must be ranked based on their average marks.
If one or more students have the same average, the same rank must be given to these students.
Consecutive ranks must be skipped when the same rank is assigned.
Which Transact-SQL query should you use?

You create a table that has the StudentCode, SubjectCode, and Marks columns to record mid-year
marks for students. The table has marks obtained by 50 students for various subjects.
You need to retrieve the students who scored the highest marks for each subject along with the
marks.
Which Transact-SQL query should you use?

You use a contained database named ContosoDb within a domain. You need to create a user who
can log on to the ContosoDb database. You also need to ensure that you can port the database to
different database servers within the domain without additional user account configurations.
Which type of user should you create?

You administer several Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database servers. Merge replication has been
configured for an application that is distributed across offices throughout a wide area network
(WAN). Many of the tables involved in replication use the XML and varchar (max) data types.
Occasionally, merge replication fails due to timeout errors. You need to reduce the occurrence of
these timeout errors. What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that has Trustworthy set to On. You create a
stored procedure that returns database-level information from Dynamic Management Views. You
grant User1 access to execute the stored procedure. You need to ensure that the stored procedure
returns the required information when User1 executes the stored procedure. You need to achieve
this goal by granting the minimum permissions required. What should you do? (Each correct answer
presents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)

You develop a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database that contains tables named Customers and
Orders. The tables are related by a column named CustomerId.
You need to create a query that meets the following requirements:
Returns the CustomerName for all customers and the OrderDate for any orders that they have
placed.
Results must not include customers who have not placed any orders.
Which Transact-SQL query should you use?

You develop a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. You need to create a batch process that meets
the following requirements:
Status information must be logged to a status table.
If the status table does not exist at the beginning of the batch, it must be created.
Which object should you use?

You administer a database that includes a table named Customers that contains more than 750
rows. You create a new column named PartitionNumber of the int type in the table.
You need to assign a PartitionNumber for each record in the Customers table.You also need to
ensure that the PartitionNumber satisfies the following conditions:
Always starts with 1.
Starts again from 1 after it reaches 100.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

You use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to develop a database application.
You need to create an object that meets the following requirements:
Takes an input variable
Returns a table of values
Cannot be referenced within a view
Which object should you use?

You are a database developer for an application hosted on a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server.
The database contains two tables that have the following definitions:

Global customers place orders from several countries.
You need to view the country from which each customer has placed the most orders.
Which Transact-SQL query do you use?