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SQL Server Vocab

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






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






3. 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






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






5. Defines the name and contents of a message.






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. 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






11. A role specified when enabling CDC that is used to limit access to the change data






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. 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






21. A collection of conversations that are related






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. A physical structure implemented as a balanced tree that is used to speed up query operations






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






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






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






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






34. A ____ that includes only the rows that are in common in all tables referenced in the FROM clause






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations