Skip to main content

Monitoring and Automation

1.       What are the major facts of monitoring of SQL Server ?
a.       Infra Level / Virtual Level / Server Level
b.      Instance Level
c.       Database Level
d.      Application Level
2.       What do you use to monitor of SQL Server based IT Infrastructure at various level ?
3.       What is Perfmon and what are the major counters do you use to monitor production server ?
4.       What is Activity monitor ?
5.       What is Profiler and what are the common Counters of Profiler used in Day to Day activity monitoring ?
6.       What is DMV ?
7.       What are the most common and useful DMV do you use to monitor SQL Server in daily life ?
8.       What is DDL Trigger ? How to implement it for monitoring and track changes ?
9.       What are the Third party tools you use or used for monitoring SQL Server ?
10.   How do you find recent or current running queries and active transactions in your database ?
11.   What is Automation Task and which tool of SQL Server Does this ?
12.   What is the architecture of SQL Server Agent ?
13.   How do you track jobs and logs of sql server agent?
14.   How do you check and correct log history of agent ?
15.   How do you clear job history and logs of agent ?
16.   What is DB Mail  or Database Mail ? How to configure it ?
17.   What is concurrency ?
18.   What is Isolation Level and What are benefit of this ?
19.   What is Multi Server Query ?
20.   What is Wait State ?
21.   What are the tools available in SQL Server for Auditing ?
22.   What is Extended Events ?
23.   What is Change Tracking ?
24.   What is Change Data Capture ?
25.   What is SQL Audit ?
26.   What is MDW (Management Data Warehouse ) ?
27.   What do you do when developers complain that Database Server is slow but actually it is not , please explain ?
28.   How do you check blocking and deadlocks ?
29.   What do you do when blocking or deadlocks comes ?
30.   What are the step we can follow to avoid deadlocks and blocking issues in our database ?
31.   What is locks, blocks and Deadlocks ?
32.   How to configure Change Tracking ?
33.   How to configure Change Data capture ?
34.   Write steps to configure MDW ?
35.   What is Resource Governor ? How does it works ?
36.   What are Work Load group and Resource Pool ?
37.   How does Policy Management works ?
38.   What are Condition, Facets and objects in PBM ?
39.   What is Locking or Locks ? what are the kinds of Locking in SQL Server ?Shared, Exclusive, update,
40.   What is Parser, Compiler and Optimizer ?
41.   What is SARGS ?
42.   What is the Architecture of Transaction ?
43.   What are joins in Query Execution Plan ?
44.   What is Nested Join ?
45.   What is Dirty Read ?
46.   What is Concurrency in SQL Server point of View. How to manage it ?
47.   What is Save Point ?
Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

History of MySQL from AB Corp to Cloud Database

MySQL was created by a Swedish company, MySQL AB, founded by David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Michael "Monty" Widenius. Original development of MySQL by Widenius and Axmark began in 1994. The first version of MySQL appeared on 23 May 1995. Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter,and "SQL", the abbreviation for Structured Query Language. ·          23 May 1995 - First internal release ·          Year 1996 - Version 3 o     Simple CRUD operations o     January 1997 Windows version was released on 8 January 1998 for Windows 95 and NT o     production release 1998, from www.mysql.com ·          Year 2002 - Version 4 o     MyISAM o     unions o     Tracking o     B-trees o     s...
34 comments
Read more

How to add an article in Transactional Replication

If we have a set-up of Transactional Replication for Data Distribution running and wanting to add new object to replication on other server we can follow below process. To add an article In Transaction replication with PUSH Subscription 
29 comments
Read more

Configure Impersonation Authentication in IIS8 for MVC Application

Impersonation is when ASP.NET executes code in the context of an authenticated and authorized client. By default, ASP.NET does not use impersonation and instead executes all code using the same user account as the ASP.NET process, which is typically the ASPNET account. There are 5 below steps by which we can establish Impersonation configuration in our secured application environment. 1.)    Creation of Application/Proxy user where Application is hosted. 2.)    Give appropriate access to the user. 3.)    Create Database Login user on database. 4.)    Authenticate User and provide credential on IIS. 5.)    Then Configure web.config on Application.
28 comments
Read more