Which backup option should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).

The financial database has the following characteristics:

The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.

The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database.

These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.

A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.

You need to ensure that your backup will continue if any invalid checksum is encountered.

Which backup option should you use?
A . STANDBY
B . Differential
C . FULL
D . CHECKSUM
E . BULK_LOGGED
F . CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR
G . SIMPLE
H . DBO_ONLY
. COPY_ONLY
. SKIP
. RESTART
. Transaction log
. NO_CHECKSUM
. NORECOVERY

View Answer

Answer: F

Explanation:

The CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR option, of the Transact-SQL BACKUP command, instructs BACKUP to continue despite encountering errors such as invalid checksums or torn pages.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/backup-transact-sql