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SQL Server Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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.






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






11. Defines the name and contents of a message.






12. The security credentials under which a code module is executed






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations