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What are the 3rd party tools which you've used for performance monitoring and Jobs Monitoring

2. What is Normalization? Why it is required?

3. What are the basic uses for master,MSDB,MODEL & tempdb? Master: Master database holds information for all the databases located on the SQL Server Instance, and it is the glue that holds the engine together. Because SQL Server cannot start without a functioning master database, you must administer this database with care. MSDB: The MSDB database stored information regarding database backups, SQL Agent information, DTS packages, SQL Server jobs, PBM information and some replication information such as for log shipping. TempDB: The tempdb holds temporary objects such as global and local temporary tables and is a very important database for the instance. It is also the database that stores the version store when snapshot isolations are used. Each time SQL Server restarts the tempdb is copied from the model database.

4. What is the maximum number of indices per table in SQL Server Upto SQL Server 2005: 1 clustered index + 249 Non-Clustered = 250 SQL Server 2008 Onwards: 1 clustered index + 999 Non-Clustered = 1000

5. How do you find the index size of a table? EXEC sp_spaceused

6. How do you get data from a database on another server? OPENDATASOURCE OPENQUERY IMPORT / EXPORT SSIS Package 7. When I delete data from a table, does SQL Server reduce the size of the database? No. It does not reduce the size of table right away; however, it marks those pages as free pages, showing that they belong to the table. When new data is inserted, they are put into those free pages first.

8. What are the pre-requisites for installing SQL Server 2008?