You use a SQL Server 2005 database named DB1, which is located on a server named SQL1. DB1 is in use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A recent copy of DB1 exists on a second server named SQLtest that also runs SQL Server 2005. You detect a high number of full scans on SQL1 and conclude that additional indexes in DB1 are needed. A workload file that is suitable for Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) already exists. You need to analyze the workload file by using DTA. You must ensure maximum performance on SQL1 during analysis. You must also ensure availability during the implementation of any recommendations suggested by the DTA. What should you do?

Your company uses SQL Server 2005. A user reports that an order processing application stopped responding in the middle of an order transaction. The users SQL Server session ID is 54. You need to find out if session 54 is blocked by another connection. If it is, you need to identify the blocking session ID. What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

You are implementing transaction log shipping for a database named DB1 from a server named SQL1 to a server named SQL2. Because DB1 is 100 GB in size, it is too big to transfer over the network in a reasonable amount of time. You need to minimize the impact on the network while you initialize the secondary database. Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

You are creating an online catalog application that will display product information on the company Web site. The product data is stored in a SQL Server 2005 database. The data is stored as relational data but must be passed to the application as an XML document by using FOR XML. You test your application and notice that not all of the items matching your query appear in the XML document. Only those products that have values for all elements in the schema appear. You need to modify your Transact-SQL statement so that all products matching your query appear in the XML document. What should you do?

You are creating a stored procedure that will delete data from the Contact table in a SQL Server 2005 database. The stored procedure includes the following Transact-SQL statement to handle any errors that occur. BEGIN TRY BEGIN TRANSACTION DELETE FROM
Person.Contact WHERE ContactID = @ContactID COMMIT TRANSACTIONEND TRYBEGIN
CATCH DECLARE @ErrorMessage nvarchar(2000) DECLARE @ErrorSeverity int DECLARE @ErrorState int SELECT @ErrorMessage = ERROR_MESSAGE(), @ErrorSeverity = ERROR_SEVERITY(), @ErrorState = ERROR_STATE() RAISERROR (@ErrorMessage, @ErrorSeverity, @ErrorState) END CATCH; You test the stored procedure and discover that it leaves open transactions. You need to modify the stored procedure so that it properly handles the open transactions. What should you do?

You are creating an HTTP endpoint that will be used to provide customer data to external applications. Your SQL Server 2005 computer is named SQL1. You create a stored
procedure named dbo.usp_GetPersonData to retrieve the data in the AdventureWorks database. You
create the endpoint by using the following code. CREATE ENDPOINT SQLEP_AWPersons AS HTTP (PATH = ‘/AWpersons’, AUTHENTICATION = (INTEGRATED), PORTS = (CLEAR), SITE =
‘SQL1’) FOR SOAP (WEBMETHOD ‘PersonData’
(NAME=’AdventureWorks.dbo.usp_GetPersonData’), BATCHES = DISABLED, WSDL = DEFAULT,
DATABASE = ‘AdventureWorks’, NAMESPACE = ‘http://Adventure-Works/Persons’) The first users
to connect to the endpoint tell you that they do not get any data. You connect to the endpoint and discover that it is not responding. You need to modify the endpoint so that data is returned as expected.

What should you do?

You are responsible for importing data into SQL Server 2005 databases.

Your department is starting to receive text files that contain sales transactions from stores across the country. Columns in the data are separated by semicolons. You need to import the files into the sales database. What should you do?

A support engineer reports that inserting new sales transactions in a SQL Server 2005 database results in an error. You investigate the error. You discover that in one of the databases, a developer has accidentally deleted some data in a table that is critical for transaction processing. The database uses the full recovery model. You need to restore the table. You need to achieve this goal without affecting the availability of other data in the database. What should you do?

You are responsible for implementing maintenance jobs on a SQL Server 2005 database server. Certain jobs run every Sunday and other jobs run at the beginning of every month.

You need to schedule the jobs in the way that uses the least amount of administrative effort. What should you do?

You configure a new SQL Server 2005 computer to use TCP/IP with all default settings. Your corporate policy requires that each server use a firewall. You find that you can connect to the SQL Server instance from the local computer. However, client computers cannot connect to the SQL Server instance. You need to identify the most likely cause of the connection issues. What should you do first?