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SQL Server Vocab

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






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






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






4. 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






5. Defines the name and contents of a message.






6. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






8. An object that is used to store a scalar value for use within a function - trigger - or stored procedure.






9. 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






10. The word - phrase - or character string included as input in the full -text query.






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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. Used to configure SQL Server to send and receive messages over TCP/IP connections.






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






19. A table without a clustered index; (A ____ can still have nonclustered indexes defined on it)






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






21. A function that returns the same value every time it is executed given the same input parameters






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. A constraint that is set on one column or a combination of columns in a table that must uniquely identify a row in the table; By definition - the __________ cannot contain NULL values.






34. An object that contains significant words and their locations within the columns included in the index






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






36. After a transaction is committed - the final state of the data is still available even if the server fails or is restarted






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. XML files that define synonyms for terms in a specific language.






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. A server-side object that allows you to retrieve and process a set of data on a row-by-row basis






49. 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






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