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SQL Server Vocab
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1. A set of DDL events within the DDL event hierarchy
Dialog
Partition scheme
Gating role
Event group
2. A set of code that is stored within a database; The ____ types supported by SQL Server are triggers - functions - views - and stored procedures.
Module
Partition scheme
Dialog
Identlty
3. The process by which a user assumes the security credentials of another user
Full-Text Engine
Route
Impersonation
Conversation group
4. A numeric value assigned to each connection to SQL Server.
System process ID (SPID)
Well-known text (WKT)
Foreign key constraInt
Conversation priority
5. At the end of a transaction - either a new and valid form of the data exists or the data is returned to its original state- Returning data to its original state is part of the rollback functionality provided by SOL
DetermInistic function
Consistency
Schema binding
Cost
6. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.
Scalar function
Function
XML
Conversation priority
7. The process of adding data to a full -text index either during creation or when the full-text index is built.
Recursive CTE
Population (crawl)
Instantiation
Stoplist
8. A native SQL Sever data type that can handle both ____ fragments and documents as well as un typed and typed (schema validated) ___ data.
OGC Extended Methods
Gating role
XML data type
XML
9. 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.
DML trigger
Stored procedure
Module
Partition function
10. An object that contains significant words and their locations within the columns included in the index
Full-text Index
JOIN
Upper bound
SQLCLR
11. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations
Conversation priority
Well-known text (WKT)
Well-known binary (WKB)
Identlty
12. A table without a clustered index; (A ____ can still have nonclustered indexes defined on it)
Conversation group
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
Heap
13. The security credentials under which a code module is executed
Cursor
Unique constraint
Execution context
Isolation
14. A trigger that executes in response to a DDL event
DDL trigger
Table-valued function
PartItioned view
Thesaurus
15. NET Framework applications that provide specialized functionality within SQL Server PowerShell
Filter
Cmdlets
Cursor
Table-valued function
16. A word or character string defined by a word breaker.
Materialized view
DML trigger
Cost
Token
17. A reference ID associated with a specific model of the earth. These IDs reference the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) standard identification system.
DDL trigger
Schema binding
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Thesaurus
18. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.
Scalar function
Route
Population (crawl)
Remote service binding
19. Is well formed; that is - it must have a root node.
User-defined function (UDF)
Message type
XML document
Object
20. An object that is used to store a scalar value for use within a function - trigger - or stored procedure.
Fllestream
Event group
Variable
Table-valued function
21. Used to store ellipsoidal (round-earth) data - such as latitude and longitude coordinates
Geography data type
Check constraint
Remote service binding
Full-Text Engine
22. A role specified when enabling CDC that is used to limit access to the change data
Aggregate function
Well-known binary (WKB)
Gating role
Primary key
23. Another name for an indexed view; Message Contains information that is sent within a Service Broker conversation.
Materialized view
DML trigger
Clustered Index
XML
24. 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
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Well-known binary (WKB)
Filter
25. The binary equivalent to WKT - which is sometimes used to transfer and store spatial data.
Variable
Well-known binary (WKB)
Unique constraint
Service
26. A hidden table where Service Broker messages are stored until they are processed.
XML
Materialized view
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
Queue
27. A numeric value representing a physical location within a heap and page.
Clustered Index
Row Identifier (RID)
Execution context
XML document
28. _______ designed to work with geometry and geography data types.
OGC Extended Methods
Partition scheme
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
DDL trigger
29. A ____ that includes all rows from an outer table and includes any rows from the inner table that match the _____ criteria.
Check constraint
XML
OUTER JOIN
Event group
30. A named SQL statement programming object that can be called in either a SELECT or FROM clause that returns a single {scalar} value or a value with a table data type - but is not allowed to modify the state of a database or the instance
Isolation
Stemmer
Contract
Function
31. Defines the name and contents of a message.
Message type
Nonclustered Index
OUTER JOIN
SQLCLR
32. A trigger that executes in response to a DML event
Schema binding
DML trigger
Methods
Table-valued function
33. When two or more pieces of information are involved in a transaction - either all the pieces are committed or none of them are
Population (crawl)
Atomicity
DML trigger
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
34. A way to make SQL Server return a stream making up an XML document or fragment
Stopword
Term
Parameter
FOR XML
35. 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
Filter
Isolation
Index
Function
36. Used to store planar data based on Euclidean space such as points - lines - and polygons
Service
Upper bound
Geometry data type
INNER JOIN
37. A constraint that applies a Boolean expression to rows added or updated in tables to verify whether the update should be allowed
Full-text Index
Distributed partitioned view
Check constraint
Conversation priority
38. 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.
Token
Object
Function
Word breaker
39. A function that returns the same value every time it is executed given the same input parameters
Remote service binding
DetermInistic function
Correlated subquery
Well-known binary (WKB)
40. The name given to the group of tasks within a Service Broker solution that require messages to be sent.
OGC Extended Methods
Geometry data type
Service
Cmdlets
41. A function that defines the values that divide a table or index into multiple ___________.
Full-Text Engine
Partition function
Conversation priority
Consistency
42. 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
Identlty
XML document
Distributed partitioned view
Consistency
43. A long-term - asynchronous - and reliable communication channel across which messages are sent by using Service Broker
Object
Durability
Consistency
Conversation
44. A property that can be applied to the varbinary(max) data type and that makes the actual data reside in a directory structure in the file system instead of inside the database's data file or files
Stoplist
Fllestream
Row Identifier (RID)
Nondeterministic function
45. A collection of conversations that are related
Atomicity
DML trigger
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Conversation group
46. A function referenced in a SELECT clause that accepts an expression and returns a single value of a defined data type.
Scalar function
Indexed view
Aggregate function
Atomicity
47. 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
Recursive CTE
Service Broker endpoint
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Message type
48. A deterministic view that has a unique - clustered _____ created against it
Stoplist
Conversation
Primary key
Indexed view
49. A number assigned to entries within a transaction log to aid with recovery; lower bound Defines a starting ________ to define a valid range of rows within a change table.
Partition scheme
Token
Aggregate function
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
50. A conversation between two specific Services - Broker services that provides exactly-once-in-order - (EOIO) message delivery
Check constraint
Dialog
Upper bound
Thesaurus