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What are the versions of SQL Server
Premium - Parallel Data Warehouse and Enterprise
Core -
Other - Developer, Express
Tablular Data Stream TDS protocol
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SQL Native Access Client (SNAC)
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Security user options
Window Logins, Window Groups, SQL Server Logins
How do you access things on the master database?
Views and other db tools
What are Named pipes?
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Parallelism
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MAXDOP
? Max degree of parallelism
32 bit v. 64 bit
32 bit - 4GB of memory
64 bit - 8TB
You can be on a 64 bit machine with a 32 bit license…it runs like 64 bit.
Buffer Pool
The main membry object of SQL Server
- It holds data cache
- Provides memory for other SQL Server components
- Is divided into 8K pages
Physical I/O
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Logical I/O
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What does Maximum worker threads = 0 mean?
It means there are unlimited thread, you can change it to an actual number to limit the threads.
SQLIOSIM
-Unsupported but provided by Microsoft
-Can be run through command line or GUI
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SQLIO
-Unsupported but provided by Microsoft
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What are primary and secondary data files?
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Transactions logs
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tempdb
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Windows Collation
based on the rules for the associated windows locale
SQL Server Collations
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Default Collation and Sort Rules
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ServerProperty(‘Collation’)
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DatabasePropertyEX(‘tempdb’,’Collation’)
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Layout the 4 parts of Collate
Latin1_General_CI_AS
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Changing Collation means you cannot actually compare two columns with = you will get an error
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What is the order to install SQL Server by command line?
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What is the order to Upgrade SQL Server by command line?
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What is ndf file?
These are secondary data files, they should be stored on a second hard drive.
Extent
8 contiguous 8kb pages
How big is a page?
8kb