You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The database is currently configured to log ship to a secondary server.
You are preparing to cut over to the secondary server by stopping log-shipping and bringing the secondary database online. You want to perform a tail-log backup.
You need to leave the primary database in a restoring state.
Which option of the BACKUP LOG command should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database named Orders.
Orders contains a table named OrderShip that is defined as follows:

A NULL value represents a domestic order. Ninety percent of the values in CountryCode are NULL.
Customers require a procedure that will return orders for all customers from a specified country.
You create a new procedure:

Performance on this procedure is slow.
You need to alter the schema to optimize this query. Objects created must use a minimum amount of resources.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database instance.
You plan to migrate the database to Windows Azure SQL Database. You verify that all objects contained in the database are compatible with Windows Azure SQL
Database.
You need to ensure that database users and required server logins are migrated to Windows Azure SQL Database.

What should you do?

You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Human_Resources. The database contains 2 tables named Employees and SalaryDetails. You
add two Windows groups as logins for the server:
CORP\\Employees – All company employees
CORP\\HRAdmins – HR administrators only
HR Administrators are also company employees.

You need to grant users access according to the following requirements:
CORP\\Employees should have SELECT access to the Employees table. Only users in CORP\\HRAdmins should have SELECT access to the SalaryDetails table.
Logins are based only on Windows security groups.
What should you do?

You administer a SQL Server 2012 database instance.
You need to configure the SQL Server Database Engine service on a failover cluster.
Which user account should you use?

You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Inventory that contains a stored procedure named p_AddInventory.
Users need to be able to SELECT from all tables in the database and execute the stored procedure.
You need to grant only the necessary permissions.

What should you do?

You are the administrator of a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 server.
Some applications consume significant resources. You need to manage the server workload by restricting resource-intensive applications
You need to dynamically limit resource consumption.
What should you do?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 failover cluster.
You need to ensure that a failover occurs when the server diagnostics returns query_processing error.
Which server configuration property should you set?

You administer a Windows Azure SQL Database database named Orders.
You need to create a copy of Orders named Orders_Reporting.
Which Transact-SQL command should you use?

You administer a Windows 2008 server hosting an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition. The server hosts a database named Orders.
Users report that a query that filters on OrderDate is taking an exceptionally long time. You discover that an index named IX_OrderDate on the CustomerOrder table
is heavily fragmenteD.
You need to improve the performance of the IX_OrderDate index. The index should remain online during the operation.

Which Transact-SQL command should you use?