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SQL Server Vocab

Subject : it-skills
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1. Is well formed; that is - it must have a root node.






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Defines the name and contents of a message.






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. A way to make SQL Server return a stream making up an XML document or fragment






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. A function referenced in a SELECT clause that accepts an expression and returns a single value of a defined data type.






48. 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






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






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