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SQL Server Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. After a transaction is committed - the final state of the data is still available even if the server fails or is restarted
Aggregate function
Conversation
JOIN
Durability
2. The process of adding data to a full -text index either during creation or when the full-text index is built.
Variable
Object
Conversation priority
Population (crawl)
3. A rule applied to a column{s} within a table that is used to validate changes and ensure that data within a table does not violate business rules
Geography data type
Constraint
Stored procedure
Geometry data type
4. A database object that is used to manage stopwords; There is a system-defined stoplist and you can also create your own stoplists.
Contract
DDL trigger
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Stoplist
5. A conversation between two specific Services - Broker services that provides exactly-once-in-order - (EOIO) message delivery
Dialog
Well-known binary (WKB)
Execution context
FOR XML
6. Defines the name and contents of a message.
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
Message type
Geography data type
Recursive CTE
7. A special case of a partitioned view where the member tables are stored on multiple SOL Server instances
Impersonation
Index
Distributed partitioned view
Instantiation
8. A service that starts Fdhost:exe processes when the Full-Text Engine requires them.
Aggregate function
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
9. _______ designed to work with geometry and geography data types.
Nonclustered Index
OGC Extended Methods
DetermInistic function
Stoplist
10. During a transaction (before it is committed or rolled back) the data must remain in an isolated state and not be accessible to other transactions; In SQL Server - the isolation level can be controlled for each transaction
Isolation
Geography data type
DML trigger
Heap
11. A query that is embedded within - but does not reference any columns from - an outer query.
Instantiation
Token
Cursor
Noncorrelated subquery
12. One column per table can be defined as its identity; The __________ property automatically generates a new increased or decreased number for the column when rows are inserted into the table
Population (crawl)
Distributed partitioned view
Identlty
Gating role
13. A process that provides inflectional matches to verbs and nouns based on the linguistic rules of the data language defined.
Stemmer
Table-valued function
Nonclustered Index
Dialog
14. An object that contains significant words and their locations within the columns included in the index
Row Identifier (RID)
Full-text Index
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Schema binding
15. The process of producing a particular instance of an object based on the object's properties and methods
Conversation group
Heap
Instantiation
Route
16. A TSQL operator that combines the result sets from multiple queries.
Index
Impersonation
UNION
Module
17. Another name for an indexed view; Message Contains information that is sent within a Service Broker conversation.
Materialized view
Geometry data type
Dialog
Parameter
18. Defines on which file group each ________ defined by a _______ function should be stored.
Word breaker
Filter
Heap
Partition scheme
19. A way to make SQL Server return a stream making up an XML document or fragment
FOR XML
Isolation
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Message type
20. A process that finds word boundaries (tokenizes words) based on the linguistic rules for the data language specified; You can specify the language of the data in the column when creating a full-text index on a table.
Word breaker
Change tables
Stemmer
Isolation
21. A trigger that executes in response to a DML event
DML trigger
Service
Durability
Cost
22. An index that imposes a physical order on the rows within a table- There can only be a single clustered index on a table
Full-text catalog
Clustered Index
Function
Service Broker endpoint
23. An index that contains one or more columns in a table that are used to improve query efficiency; If the table has a ______ index - the root level of the _______ index points back to the clustering key - otherwise - the root level points to a row in
Conversation group
Recursive CTE
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
Nonclustered Index
24. A set of DDL events within the DDL event hierarchy
Conversation
Partition scheme
Well-known binary (WKB)
Event group
25. Defines an ending Log Sequence Number (LSN) to define a valid range of rows within a change table.
XML fragment
Stored procedure
JOIN
Upper bound
26. A long-term - asynchronous - and reliable communication channel across which messages are sent by using Service Broker
User-defined function (UDF)
Conversation
Aggregate function
Partition scheme
27. A query that is embedded within - and references columns from - an outer query
OGC Extended Methods
Correlated subquery
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
OUTER JOIN
28. The security credentials under which a code module is executed
Service
Full-Text Engine
Execution context
Geography data type
29. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.
INNER JOIN
SQLCLR
XML
Cost
30. A function referenced in a SELECT clause that accepts an expression and returns a single value of a defined data type.
Scalar function
Contract
Service Broker endpoint
Remote service binding
31. An internal metric used by SOL Server to determine the amount of processing resources a given query plan will consume
Stored procedure
Cost
Geometry data type
Distributed partitioned view
32. An international nonprofit organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services.
Partition scheme
Table-valued function
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Well-known binary (WKB)
33. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations
Term
Conversation priority
Instantiation
Full-text catalog
34. An object that is used to store a scalar value for use within a function - trigger - or stored procedure.
Full-text catalog
Noncorrelated subquery
Foreign key constraInt
Variable
35. Is not well-formed; that is - it does not have a root node.
DDL trigger
Gating role
XML fragment
Recursive CTE
36. The process by which a user assumes the security credentials of another user
Scalar function
Impersonation
Upper bound
Distributed partitioned view
37. A special type of __________ that has an anchor query - which is the source of the recursion - along with a UNION ALL statement and a second query - which recurses across the anchor query - and an outer query - which references the _____ and specifie
Distributed partitioned view
Partition function
Recursive CTE
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
38. A function that returns the same value every time it is executed given the same input parameters
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
DetermInistic function
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
Indexed view
39. A hidden table where Service Broker messages are stored until they are processed.
Queue
Message type
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Indexed view
40. Defines where to deliver Service Broker messages. If not specified - the AutoCreatedLocal ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______ is used.
Remote service binding
Noncorrelated subquery
Schema binding
Route
41. A table without a clustered index; (A ____ can still have nonclustered indexes defined on it)
FOR XML
Heap
Distributed partitioned view
Service Broker endpoint
42. A constraint that applies a Boolean expression to rows added or updated in tables to verify whether the update should be allowed
Check constraint
Service Broker endpoint
Unique constraint
Parameter
43. A word or character string defined by a word breaker.
XML document
Population (crawl)
Stemmer
Token
44. A process that manages third-party components such as filters - word breakers - and stemmers separated from the SQL Server process
Filter
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
Table-valued function
Stopword
45. A role specified when enabling CDC that is used to limit access to the change data
Stopword
User-defined function (UDF)
Methods
Gating role
46. Used to configure SQL Server to send and receive messages over TCP/IP connections.
Parameter
Token
Service Broker endpoint
Stoplist
47. A deterministic view that has a unique - clustered _____ created against it
DDL trigger
Indexed view
Atomicity
Instantiation
48. A reference ID associated with a specific model of the earth. These IDs reference the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) standard identification system.
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Aggregate function
Consistency
Page
49. A physical structure implemented as a balanced tree that is used to speed up query operations
Remote service binding
Index
Isolation
Table-valued function
50. A variable that is passed to a stored procedure or function.
Instantiation
Event group
Parameter
OGC Extended Methods