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SQL Server Vocab

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1. 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






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






4. 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.






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






6. An index that contains one or more columns in a table that are used to improve query efficiency; If the table has a ______ index - the root level of the _______ index points back to the clustering key - otherwise - the root level points to a row in






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






17. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations






18. After a transaction is committed - the final state of the data is still available even if the server fails or is restarted






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






20. A long-term - asynchronous - and reliable communication channel across which messages are sent by using Service Broker






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






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






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






24. Used to store ellipsoidal (round-earth) data - such as latitude and longitude coordinates






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






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






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






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






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. 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







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