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 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?

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 use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to develop a database application.
You need to implement a computed column that references a lookup table by using an INNER JOIN
against another table.
What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named ContosoDb. The database contains a
table named Suppliers and a column named IsActive in the Purchases schema. You create a new user
named ContosoUser in ContosoDb. ContosoUser has no permissions to the Suppliers table. You need
to ensure that ContosoUser can delete rows that are not active from Suppliers. You also need to
grant ContosoUser only the minimum required permissions. Which Transact-SQL statement should
you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server. You plan to deploy new features to an
application. You need to evaluate existing and potential clustered and non-clustered indexes that
will improve performance.
What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server database named Sales. The database is 3 terabytes in size.
The Sales database is configured as shown in the following table.

You discover that Sales_2.ndf is corrupt. You need to recover the corrupted data in the minimum
amount of time. What should you do?

Your database contains a table named SalesOrders. The table includes a DATETIME column named
OrderTime that stores the date and time each order is placed. There is a non-clustered index on the
OrderTime column.
The business team wants a report that displays the total number of orders placed on the current
day.
You need to write a query that will return the correct results in the most efficient manner.
Which Transact-SQL query should you use?

Your application contains a stored procedure for each country. Each stored procedure accepts an
employee identification number through the @EmpID parameter.
You plan to build a single process for each employee that will execute the stored procedure based
on the country of residence.
Which approach should you use?