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Q1. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.
You have a table named AuditTrail that tracks modifications to data in other tables. The AuditTrail table is updated by many processes. Data input into AuditTrail may contain improperly formatted date time values. You implement a process that retrieves data from the various columns in AuditTrail, but sometimes the process throws an error when it is unable to convert the data into valid date time values.
You need to convert the data into a valid date time value using the en-US format culture code. If the conversion fails, a null value must be returned in the column output. The conversion process must not throw an error.
What should you implement?
A. the COALESCE function
B. a view
C. a table-valued function
D. the TRY_PARSE function
E. a stored procedure
F. the ISNULL function
G. a scalar function
H. the TRY_CONVERT function
Answer: H
Explanation:
A TRY_CONVERT function returns a value cast to the specified data type if the cast succeeds; otherwise, returns null.
References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230993.aspx
Q2. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section. you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You create a table named Products by running the following Transact-SQL statement:
You have the following stored procedure:
You need to modify the stored procedure to meet the following new requirements:
- Insert product records as a single unit of work.
- Return error number 51000 when a product fails to insert into the database.
- If a product record insert operation fails, the product information must not be permanently written to the database.
Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:
Does the solution meet the goal?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: B
Explanation:
With X_ABORT ON the INSERT INTO statement and the transaction will be rolled back when an error is raised, it would then not be possible to ROLLBACK it again in the IF XACT_STATE() <> O ROLLACK TRANSACTION statmen.
Note: A transaction is correctly defined for the INSERT INTO ..VALUES statement, and if there is an error in the transaction it will be caught ant he transaction will be rolled back, finally an error 51000 will be raised.
Note: When SET XACT_ABORT is ON, if a Transact-SQL statement raises a run-time error, the entire transaction is terminated and rolled back.
XACT_STATE is a scalar function that reports the user transaction state of a current running request. XACT_STATE indicates whether the request has an active user transaction, and whether the transaction is capable of being committed.
The states of XACT_STATE are:
0 There is no active user transaction for the current request.
1 The current request has an active user transaction. The request can perform any actions, including writing data and committing the transaction.
2 The current request has an active user transaction, but an error has occurred that has caused the transaction to be classified as an uncommittable transaction.
References:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188792.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189797.aspx
Q3. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.
You create a table by running the following Transact-SQL statement:
You need to audit all customer data.
Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
E. Option E
F. Option F
G. Option G
H. Option G
Answer: B
Explanation:
The FOR SYSTEM_TIME ALL clause returns all the row versions from both the Temporal and History table.
Note: A system-versioned temporal table defined through is a new type of user table in SQL Server 2021, here defined on the last line WITH (SYSTEM_VERSIONING = ON…, is designed to keep a full history of data changes and allow easy point in time analysis.
To query temporal data, the SELECT statement FROM<table> clause has a new clause FOR SYSTEM_TIME with five temporal-specific sub-clauses to query data across the current and history tables.
References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn935015.aspx
Q4. DRAG DROP
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is exactly the same in each question in this series.
You query a database that includes two tables: Project and Task. The Project table includes the following columns:
Task level is defined using the following rules:
You need to determine the task level for each task in the hierarchy.
Which five Transact-SQL segments should you use to develop the solution? To answer, move the appropriate Transact-SQL segments from the list of Transact-SQL segments to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Answer:
Explanation:
Box 1: SELECT CAST (NULL AS INT) AS ParentTaskID, etc.
This statement selects all tasks with task level 0.
The ParentTaskID could be null so we should use CAST (NULL AS INT) AS ParentTaskID.
Box 2: UNION
We should use UNION and not UNION ALL as we do not went duplicate rows. UNION specifies that multiple result sets are to be combined and returned as a single result set.
Incorrect: Not UNION ALL: ALL incorporates all rows into the results. This includes duplicates. If not specified, duplicate rows are removed.
Box 3, Box 4, Box 5:
These statements select all tasks with task level >0.
References:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180026.aspx
Q5. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section. you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You create a table named Products by running the following Transact-SQL statement:
You have the following stored procedure:
You need to modify the stored procedure to meet the following new requirements:
- Insert product records as a single unit of work.
- Return error number 51000 when a product fails to insert into the database.
- If a product record insert operation fails, the product information must not be permanently written to the database.
Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:
Does the solution meet the goal?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: A
Explanation:
If the INSERT INTO statement raises an error, the statement will be caught and an error 51000 will be thrown. In this case no records will have been inserted.
Note:
You can implement error handling for the INSERT statement by specifying the statement in a TRY…CATCH construct.
If an INSERT statement violates a constraint or rule, or if it has a value incompatible with
the data type of the column, the statement fails and an error message is returned. References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174335.aspx
Q6. DRAG DROP
You have a table named HR.Employees as shown in the exhibit. (Click the exhibit button.)
You need to write a query that will change the value of the job title column to Customer Representative for any employee who lives in Seattle and has a job title of Sales Representative. If the employee does not have a manager defined, you must not change the title.
Which three Transact-SQL segments should you use to develop the solution? To answer, move the appropriate Transact-SQL segments from the list of Transact-SQL segments to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Answer:
Explanation:
References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177523.aspx
Q7. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.
You have a database that contains tables named Customer_CRMSystem and Customer_HRSystem. Both tables use the following structure:
The tables include the following records: Customer_CRMSystem
Customer_HRSystem
Records that contain null values for CustomerCode can be uniquely identified by CustomerName.
You need to create a list of all unique customers that appear in either table. Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
E. Option E
F. Option F
G. Option G
H. Option H
Answer: E
Explanation:
UNION combines the results of two or more queries into a single result set that includes all the rows that belong to all queries in the union. The UNION operation is different from using joins that combine columns from two tables.
Q8. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choices. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided in a question apply only to that question.
You create a table by running the following Transact-SQL statement:
You are developing a report that displays customer information. The report must contain a grand total column.
You need to write a query that returns the data for the report. Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
E. Option E
F. Option F
G. Option G
H. Option H
Answer: E
Explanation:
Calculate aggregate column through AVG function and GROUP BY clause.
Q9. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section. you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
You create a table named Products by running the following Transact-SQL statement:
You have the following stored procedure:
You need to modify the stored procedure to meet the following new requirements:
- Insert product records as a single unit of work.
- Return error number 51000 when a product fails to insert into the database.
- If a product record insert operation fails, the product information must not be permanently written to the database.
Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:
Does the solution meet the goal?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: B
Explanation:
A transaction is correctly defined for the INSERT INTO ..VALUES statement, and if there is an error in the transaction it will be caught ant he transaction will be rolled back. However, error number 51000 will not be returned, as it is only used in an IF @ERROR = 51000 statement.
Note: @@TRANCOUNT returns the number of BEGIN TRANSACTION statements that
have occurred on the current connection.
References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187967.aspx
Q10. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that use the same scenario. For your convenience, the scenario is repeated in each question. Each question presents a different goal and answer choices, but the text of the scenario is exactly the same in each question in this series.
You query a database that includes two tables: Project and Task. The Project table includes the following columns:
You plan to run the following query to update tasks that are not yet started:
You need to return the total count of tasks that are impacted by this UPDATE operation, but are not associated with a project.
What set of Transact-SQL statements should you run?
A.
B. B.
C. C.
D. D.
Answer: B
Explanation:
The WHERE clause of the third line should be WHERE ProjectID IS NULL, as we want to count the tasks that are not associated with a project.