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SQL Server Vocab

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1. XML files that define synonyms for terms in a specific language.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Actions an object can perform.






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. A collection of conversations that are related






28. 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






29. A ____ that utilizes a UNION ALL clause to combine multiple member tables of the same structure into a single result set.






30. NET Framework applications that provide specialized functionality within SQL Server PowerShell






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. Is not well-formed; that is - it does not have a root node.






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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






48. A numeric value representing a physical location within a heap and page.






49. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations






50. 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.