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What are the operating modes in which database mirroring runs? : sql server DBA
What the different types of replication and why are they used? : sql server DBA
Why would you use sql agent? : sql server DBA
What authentication modes does sql server support? : sql server DBA
Provide an example of a shell script which logs into SQLPLUS as SYS, determines the current date, changes the date format to include minutes & seconds, issues a drop table command, displays the date again, and finally exits.
how can you communicate with operating system files from oracle?
You have 4 instances running on the same UNIX box. How can you determine which shared memory and semaphores are associated with which instance?
Draft one mock email requesting your non-technical management grant you downtime to (provide justification where applicable) complete the following tasks: (1) Generate statistics on a large table; (2) Generate an RDA – if you don't know what an RDA is please say so. (3) Rename datafiles.
Explain materialized views and how they are used.
what are the types of connection load-balancing?
who owns the operating system files created by the utl_file package?
You have found corruption in a tablespace that contains static tables that are part of a database that is in NOARCHIVE log mode. How would you restore the tablespace without losing new data in the other tablespaces?
What are statistics, under what circumstances they go out of date, how do you update them?
List out some of the requirements to setup a sql server failover cluster.? : sql server DBA
Due to some maintenance being done, the sql server on a failover cluster needs to be brought down. How do you bring the sql server down? : sql server DBA