You work with a SQL Server 2005 database that provides banking information for customers. You want customers to see banking reports that combine data that is retrieved from the database with real-time investment information that comes from a Web service provided by a third party. The investment information must be current when the reports are executed.

You need to create the appropriate objects that support the reports. What should you do?

Your company has a SQL Server 2005 computer. You have been assigned the task of retrieving information about a user who is currently logged in. You need to create a function that returns scalar information about the activity time for a particular user. What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

You are responsible for managing the database schema for an order entry application in a SQL Server 2005 database. After a design review, a member of the development staff asks you to add a new column named CommissionRate to the Product table. Because the actual commission rates for all products are not known at this time, each product has a default commission rate of 12 percent. The rate can be modified as necessary. You add the new column. You need to configure the table to assign the default value as efficiently as possible. What should you do?

Your SQL Server 2005 database contains a table that has 500 million rows of data. Some of the data is historical and some is current. You need to partition the data on a single server to increase performance and optimize maintenance. What should you do?

Application developers in your company create an assembly that contains a CLR function. This CLR function reads data from a spreadsheet, performs some calculations, and returns the data to a SQL Server 2005 computer. You need to register the assembly with SQL Server 2005 by using the CREATE ASSEMBLY statement and the least privileged security permission set.

Which permission set should you use?

Your company has two SQL Server 2005 computers named SQL1 and SQL2. A user in your company named Eric writes many ad hoc queries against the company databases.

Eric has access to the Customer database on SQL1. He does not have access to the Sales database on SQL2. You need to ensure that Eric can write queries that join information from both servers. What should you do first?

Your company has multiple servers in a distributed environment. You work with two SQL Server 2005 computers named SQL1 and SQL2. Each server uses SQL Server Authentication and they use different logins. You need to write a distributed query that joins the data on SQL1 with the data on SQL2. What should you do?

Your company uses SQL Server 2005. You are implementing a series of views that are used in ad hoc queries. The views are used to enforce your companys security policy of abstracting data. Some of these views perform slowly. You create indexes on those views to increase performance, while still maintaining the companys security policy. One of the views returns the current date as one of the columns. The view returns the current date by using the GETDATE() function. This view does not allow you to create an index. You need to create an index on the view. Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

You are responsible for maintaining a SQL Server 2005 database. Business analysts in the company routinely use a view named v_CustomerSales to join the Customers and Sales tables in the database. They use the view to aggregate total sales by customer by month. You need to increase the performance of the view. What should you do?

You discover that the schema changes that were recently made to your SQL Server 2005 database have caused your Web site to stop functioning. It is unclear who made the changes.

Your company now mandates that all changes to the database schema be tracked. You need to implement a mechanism that will track schema changes in your database. What should you do?