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SQL Server Vocab

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A way to make SQL Server return a stream making up an XML document or fragment






2. Is well formed; that is - it must have a root node.






3. A run time inside SQL Server that allows some objects to be created using a NET language such as C# or Visual Basic NET.






4. A service that starts Fdhost:exe processes when the Full-Text Engine requires them.






5. A conversation between two specific Services - Broker services that provides exactly-once-in-order - (EOIO) message delivery






6. An agreement between two services that defines the message types the services send to accomplish certain tasks- It also defines what participants can send which message types






7. A process that provides inflectional matches to verbs and nouns based on the linguistic rules of the data language defined.






8. The process of producing a particular instance of an object based on the object's properties and methods






9. The smallest storage object maintained by SQL Server; a _____ is exactly 8 KB in size.






10. Tables within a database that store modified rows in a database with CDC enabled






11. A query that is embedded within - but does not reference any columns from - an outer query.






12. A long-term - asynchronous - and reliable communication channel across which messages are sent by using Service Broker






13. A component that processes a document to extract the textual information from documents stored in a varbinary(max) or image column and then sends that information to the word breaker






14. A constraint that is used to implement referential integrity between tables (or even within a single table)






15. A _________ that might return a different value each time it is called given the same input parameter.






16. 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






17. NET Framework applications that provide specialized functionality within SQL Server PowerShell






18. The name given to the group of tasks within a Service Broker solution that require messages to be sent.






19. A built-in or user-defined function that provides a calculation on a set of rows or values






20. An international nonprofit organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services.






21. A query that is embedded within - and references columns from - an outer query






22. A word or character string defined by a word breaker.






23. The process of adding data to a full -text index either during creation or when the full-text index is built.






24. A native SQL Sever data type that can handle both ____ fragments and documents as well as un typed and typed (schema validated) ___ data.






25. A word that is commonly used and adds no meaning to a search - such as a - an - and the; _________s in SQL Server 2008 provide similar functionality to noise words in SQL Server 2005.






26. A database object that is used to manage stopwords; There is a system-defined stoplist and you can also create your own stoplists.






27. A process that manages third-party components such as filters - word breakers - and stemmers separated from the SQL Server process






28. A standard created by the OGC that is used to represent text-based descriptions of geospatial objects.






29. A ____ that includes only the rows that are in common in all tables referenced in the FROM clause






30. A physical structure implemented as a balanced tree that is used to speed up query operations






31. A _________ that is set on one or more columns in a table that ensures the data in each row is unique within the table for that column or combination of columns; A unique _________ allows NULL values and therefore cannot be used to uniquely identify






32. Is not well-formed; that is - it does not have a root node.






33. A ____ that includes all rows from an outer table and includes any rows from the inner table that match the _____ criteria.






34. A trigger that executes in response to a DDL event






35. An option that is available for views and functions that ensures any dependent objects cannot be dropped unless the view or function is dropped first.






36. A TSQL operator that combines the result sets from multiple queries.






37. Defines where to deliver Service Broker messages. If not specified - the AutoCreatedLocal ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______ is used.






38. A numeric value representing a physical location within a heap and page.






39. A TSQL operator that combines multiple related tables to define the result set; The _______ syntax defines a column or columns which are common between the tables that are used to correlate the data.






40. Used to store ellipsoidal (round-earth) data - such as latitude and longitude coordinates






41. A module of code that is stored within a database that provides an API that applications can use to abstract the database structure from application code.






42. A collection of properties and methods that provide a defined functionality.






43. Defines on which file group each ________ defined by a _______ function should be stored.






44. Defines an ending Log Sequence Number (LSN) to define a valid range of rows within a change table.






45. 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.






46. A ____ that utilizes a UNION ALL clause to combine multiple member tables of the same structure into a single result set.






47. 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






48. A hidden table where Service Broker messages are stored until they are processed.






49. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






50. A variable that is passed to a stored procedure or function.