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SQL Server Vocab
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1. A ____ that includes only the rows that are in common in all tables referenced in the FROM clause
INNER JOIN
Identlty
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
OUTER JOIN
2. 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
Isolation
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Filter
Token
3. A collection of properties and methods that provide a defined functionality.
Distributed partitioned view
Object
Parameter
Index
4. A way to make SQL Server return a stream making up an XML document or fragment
UNION
FOR XML
DDL trigger
Consistency
5. When two or more pieces of information are involved in a transaction - either all the pieces are committed or none of them are
Upper bound
Atomicity
Noncorrelated subquery
Thesaurus
6. A variable that is passed to a stored procedure or function.
Parameter
XML fragment
Cursor
Nonclustered Index
7. Defines where to deliver Service Broker messages. If not specified - the AutoCreatedLocal ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______ is used.
Partition scheme
Conversation priority
Route
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
8. A word or character string defined by a word breaker.
Token
Indexed view
OGC Extended Methods
System process ID (SPID)
9. An object that is used to store a scalar value for use within a function - trigger - or stored procedure.
Variable
INNER JOIN
Clustered Index
DML trigger
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.
Foreign key constraInt
SQLCLR
JOIN
Upper bound
11. 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
Isolation
Message type
OUTER JOIN
12. The word - phrase - or character string included as input in the full -text query.
Term
Variable
Cmdlets
Message type
13. A conversation between two specific Services - Broker services that provides exactly-once-in-order - (EOIO) message delivery
Methods
Dialog
Parameter
Execution context
14. 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.
Clustered Index
Geography data type
User-defined function (UDF)
Event group
15. A function that defines the values that divide a table or index into multiple ___________.
Cursor
Partition function
Stopword
Fllestream
16. The process of adding data to a full -text index either during creation or when the full-text index is built.
Thesaurus
Cmdlets
Population (crawl)
Object
17. The binary equivalent to WKT - which is sometimes used to transfer and store spatial data.
Constraint
Well-known binary (WKB)
Service
Cost
18. 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.
Change tables
Well-known text (WKT)
Thesaurus
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
19. A process that manages third-party components such as filters - word breakers - and stemmers separated from the SQL Server process
Instantiation
Parameter
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
Materialized view
20. The process by which a user assumes the security credentials of another user
Impersonation
Cost
Constraint
Parameter
21. A numeric value assigned to each connection to SQL Server.
System process ID (SPID)
JOIN
XML data type
Stemmer
22. The name given to the group of tasks within a Service Broker solution that require messages to be sent.
DML trigger
Conversation priority
Service
PartItioned view
23. A _________ that might return a different value each time it is called given the same input parameter.
Stopword
Nondeterministic function
Primary key
Consistency
24. Defines an ending Log Sequence Number (LSN) to define a valid range of rows within a change table.
Upper bound
Unique constraint
Noncorrelated subquery
Full-Text Engine
25. A native SQL Sever data type that can handle both ____ fragments and documents as well as un typed and typed (schema validated) ___ data.
Term
Service Broker endpoint
Dialog
XML data type
26. 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.
Word breaker
Constraint
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
Route
27. A virtual object that represents a group of full-text indexes
Route
OGC Extended Methods
Well-known binary (WKB)
Full-text catalog
28. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.
Partition function
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Geometry data type
Remote service binding
29. A service that starts Fdhost:exe processes when the Full-Text Engine requires them.
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
Filter
INNER JOIN
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
30. Actions an object can perform.
System process ID (SPID)
Methods
Well-known text (WKT)
Geometry data type
31. 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
Materialized view
Constraint
Identlty
OUTER JOIN
32. A process that provides inflectional matches to verbs and nouns based on the linguistic rules of the data language defined.
Full-text Index
Stemmer
Nondeterministic function
Word breaker
33. 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
Change tables
Nondeterministic function
Contract
Cost
34. A function that returns the results as a table data type.
Partition scheme
Table-valued function
DetermInistic function
Contract
35. 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
Unique constraint
Change tables
Isolation
Population (crawl)
36. A database object that is used to manage stopwords; There is a system-defined stoplist and you can also create your own stoplists.
Partition scheme
Stoplist
Function
Parameter
37. A special case of a partitioned view where the member tables are stored on multiple SOL Server instances
Partition function
Stopword
Scalar function
Distributed partitioned view
38. A query that is embedded within - but does not reference any columns from - an outer query.
Full-Text Engine
User-defined function (UDF)
Noncorrelated subquery
Conversation priority
39. An international nonprofit organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services.
Stoplist
Well-known text (WKT)
Scalar function
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
40. 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
XML
Function
Schema binding
Queue
41. 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.
Primary key
Scalar function
Contract
Token
42. A run time inside SQL Server that allows some objects to be created using a NET language such as C# or Visual Basic NET.
Instantiation
UNION
Fllestream
SQLCLR
43. The process of producing a particular instance of an object based on the object's properties and methods
Partition function
Instantiation
Well-known binary (WKB)
Durability
44. 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
Clustered Index
Cursor
Consistency
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
45. Used to configure SQL Server to send and receive messages over TCP/IP connections.
Row Identifier (RID)
Impersonation
Service Broker endpoint
Heap
46. An internal metric used by SOL Server to determine the amount of processing resources a given query plan will consume
FOR XML
Cost
Parameter
Scalar function
47. _______ designed to work with geometry and geography data types.
Full-Text Engine
OGC Extended Methods
PartItioned view
Change tables
48. 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
JOIN
Isolation
Schema binding
Gating role
49. 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
SQLCLR
Cost
Impersonation
Recursive CTE
50. 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
PartItioned view
Upper bound
Constraint
Full-Text Engine