Oracle Certification Questions

Executive plan can be defined as:

* SQL Server caches collected procedure or the plan of query execution and used thereafter by subsequent calls.

* An important feature in relation to performance enhancement.

* Data execution plan can be viewed textually or graphically.

XPath is an expressions to select a xml node in an XML document.

It allows the navigation on the XML document to the straight to the element where we need to reach and access the attributes.

A .MOV file is a common multimedia container file format developed by Apple. It may contain multiple tracks that store different types of media data and is often used for saving movies and other video files.

LIKE, BETWEEN and = operators are used for comparison in SQL. Comparison operators test whether two expressions are the same. Comparison operators can be used on all expressions except expressions of the text, ntext, or image data types.

A database that contains multiple tables related through common fields.

A common field is a field of data that is shared among all forms in a database. Without them, it would be difficult and/or time-consuming to create other forms.

Data Control Language (DCL):-statements to take care of the security and authorization.

Examples:

1. GRANT


2. REVOKE

Log shipping defines the process for automatically taking backup of the database and transaction files on a SQL Server and then restoring them on a standby/backup server. This keeps the two SQL Server instances in sync with each other. In case production server fails, users simply need to be pointed to the standby/backup server. Log shipping primarily consists of 3 operations:

Backup transaction logs of the Production server.

Copy these logs on the standby/backup server.

Restore the log on standby/backup server.

SQL profiler is a tool to monitor performance of various stored procedures. It is used to debug the queries and procedures. Based on performance, it identifies the slow executing queries. Capture any problems by capturing the events on production environment so that they can be solved.