You work as a Database Administrator (DBA) at ABC.com. The infrastructure includes servers running Microsoft SQL Server 2012. All databases are hosted on a SAN (Storage Area Network).
You need to design a database solution for a new application.
You are tasked with designing a high-availability database solution.
The solution must include a single copy of the database to save disk space and the database must remain online in the event of a SQL Server failure. What should you include in your solution?
You work as a Database Administrator (DBA) at ABC.com. The infrastructure includes servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The company uses several custom applications that store data in databases on the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 servers.
A full backup of all databases is taken every night at midnight.
A differential backup of all databases is taken on the hour every hour starting at 3am until the last backup at 11pm.
A log backup is taken every 15 minutes for databases configured with the Full Recovery Model.
One application named ABCApp1 stores data in a database named ABCApp1DB.
ABCApp1DB is configured with the Simple Recovery Model. ABCApp1DB fails at 3:25am.
You discover that the last differential backup of ABCApp1DB failed.
You need to restore ABCApp1DB from backup as quickly as possible and minimize data loss.
Which of the following steps should you perform to restore ABCApp1DB?
You are planning on deploying a server that will be dedicated for ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) processes.
You want to ensure that SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) packages will run on this dedicated ETL server and not on any other server on which they were started.
Which of the following features must you install on the ETL server in addition to SSIS to accomplish this goal?
You have installed the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) feature on a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Which of the following features must you install if you want to ensure that you can run packages in 32-bit mode?