Microsoft 70-761 Querying Data with Transact-SQL Exam Practice Test

You need to create a table named Sales that meets the following requirements:

Which Transact-SQL statement should you run?

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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?

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You are creating indexes in a data warehouse.

You have a dimension table named Table1 that has 10,000 rows. The rows are used to generate several reports.

The reports join a column that is the primary key.

The execution plan contains bookmark lookups for Table1.

You discover that the reports run slower than expected.

You need to reduce the amount of time it takes to run the reports.

Solution: You create a hash index on the primary key column.

Does this meet the goal?

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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?

You have a table named Table1 that contains 200 million rows. Table1 contains a column named SaleDate that has a data type of DateTime2(3).

Users report that the following query runs slowly.

You need to reduce the amount of time it takes to run the query.

What should you use to replace the WHERE statement?

You are developing a mobile app to manage meetups. The app allows for users to view the 25 closest people with similar interests. You have a table that contains records for approximately two million people. You create the table by running the following Transact-SQL statement:

You create the following table valued function to generate lists of people:

You need to build a report that shows meetings with at least two people only.

What should you use?

You have a date related query that would benefit from an indexed view.

You need to create the indexed view.

Which two Transact-SQL functions can you use? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

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