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SQL Server Vocab

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1. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






2. 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






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






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






5. Used to store planar data based on Euclidean space such as points - lines - and polygons






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






7. 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






8. The binary equivalent to WKT - which is sometimes used to transfer and store spatial data.






9. 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.






10. A trigger that executes in response to a DML event






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






12. A set of DDL events within the DDL event hierarchy






13. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.






14. An index that imposes a physical order on the rows within a table- There can only be a single clustered index on a table






15. When two or more pieces of information are involved in a transaction - either all the pieces are committed or none of them are






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Another name for an indexed view; Message Contains information that is sent within a Service Broker conversation.






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






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






22. A constraint that applies a Boolean expression to rows added or updated in tables to verify whether the update should be allowed






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






24. A special case of a partitioned view where the member tables are stored on multiple SOL Server instances






25. A deterministic view that has a unique - clustered _____ created against it






26. A set of code that is stored within a database; The ____ types supported by SQL Server are triggers - functions - views - and stored procedures.






27. 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.






28. An internal metric used by SOL Server to determine the amount of processing resources a given query plan will consume






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. A numeric value assigned to each connection to SQL Server.






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






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






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






38. _______ designed to work with geometry and geography data types.






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






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






41. A function created as TSQL or as Common Language Runtime (CLR) code; TSQL ____s include scalar - multi statement table valued - and inline table-valued functions.






42. A function that defines the values that divide a table or index into multiple ___________.






43. 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.






44. A part of the SQL Server process that manages full-text administrative tasks - handles full-text query execution - and manages the filter daemon host process






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. The security credentials under which a code module is executed






47. A virtual object that represents a group of full-text indexes






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






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






50. A function that returns the results as a table data type.







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