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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






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






3. A collection of properties and methods that provide a defined functionality.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






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.






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






20. The process by which a user assumes the security credentials of another user






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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






28. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






30. Actions an object can perform.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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