Oracle Certification Questions

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.

Data Definition Language (DDL):- are the SQL statements that define the database structure.

Example:

1.  CREATE


2.  ALTER


3.  DROP


4.  TRUNCATE


5.  COMMENT


6.  RENAME

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.

A candidate key is a column, or set of columns, in a table that can uniquely identify any database record without referring to any other data. Each table may have one or more candidate keys, but one candidate key is unique, and it is called the primary key.

Foreign keys are the columns of a table that points to the primary key of another table. They act as a cross-reference between tables.

In detail : A Foreign key is a field (or collection of fields) in one table that uniquely identifies a row of another table or the same table. In simpler words, the foreign key is defined in a second table, but it refers to the primary key or a unique key in the first table.