Microsoft DP-300 Exam With Confidence Using Practice Dumps

Box 1: Hash

Scenario:

Ensure that queries joining and filtering sales transaction records based on product ID complete as quickly as possible.

A hash distributed table can deliver the highest query performance for joins and aggregations on large tables.

Box 2: Round-robin

Scenario:

You plan to create a promotional table that will contain a promotion ID. The promotion ID will be associated to a specific product. The product will be identified by a product ID. The table will be approximately 5 GB.

A round-robin table is the most straightforward table to create and delivers fast performance when used as a staging table for loads. These are some scenarios where you should choose Round robin distribution:

When you cannot identify a single key to distribute your data.

If your data doesn’t frequently join with data from other tables.

When there are no obvious keys to join.

Automating Azure SQL DB index and statistics maintenance using Azure Automation:

1. Create Azure automation account (Step 1)

2. Import SQLServer module (Step 2)

3. Add Credentials to access SQL DB

This will use secure way to hold login name and password that will be used to access Azure SQL DB

4. Add a runbook to run the maintenance (Step 3)

Steps: 1. Click on "runbooks" at the left panel and then click "add a runbook"

2. Choose "create a new runbook" and then give it a name and choose "Powershell" as the type of the runbook and then click on "create"

5. Schedule task (Step 4)

Steps:1. Click on Schedules2. Click on "Add a schedule" and follow the instructions to choose existing schedule or create a new schedule.