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SQL Server Vocab
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1. NET Framework applications that provide specialized functionality within SQL Server PowerShell
Well-known text (WKT)
Cmdlets
PartItioned view
Geography data type
2. 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
Gating role
Function
Service Broker endpoint
Page
3. A virtual object that represents a group of full-text indexes
Full-text catalog
JOIN
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Module
4. A trigger that executes in response to a DDL event
Impersonation
Full-text catalog
Fllestream
DDL trigger
5. A collection of conversations that are related
Materialized view
Isolation
User-defined function (UDF)
Conversation group
6. A function referenced in a SELECT clause that accepts an expression and returns a single value of a defined data type.
Scalar function
Dialog
Page
Cmdlets
7. 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.
Partition scheme
Token
Term
Word breaker
8. A database object that is used to manage stopwords; There is a system-defined stoplist and you can also create your own stoplists.
Population (crawl)
XML data type
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
Stoplist
9. 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
Gating role
Full-Text Engine
Index
Cursor
10. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations
Variable
OGC Extended Methods
Consistency
Conversation priority
11. XML files that define synonyms for terms in a specific language.
Index
Message type
Thesaurus
Change tables
12. An index that imposes a physical order on the rows within a table- There can only be a single clustered index on a table
Clustered Index
Impersonation
PartItioned view
Instantiation
13. The process by which a user assumes the security credentials of another user
Impersonation
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
Conversation priority
XML fragment
14. 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.
Remote service binding
Gating role
XML data type
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
15. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.
Stemmer
Instantiation
XML
Foreign key constraInt
16. Actions an object can perform.
Methods
XML
XML document
Term
17. A run time inside SQL Server that allows some objects to be created using a NET language such as C# or Visual Basic NET.
XML document
UNION
Change tables
SQLCLR
18. A set of code that is stored within a database; The ____ types supported by SQL Server are triggers - functions - views - and stored procedures.
Module
XML data type
Durability
Indexed view
19. A constraint that applies a Boolean expression to rows added or updated in tables to verify whether the update should be allowed
Check constraint
PartItioned view
Filter
Isolation
20. A numeric value representing a physical location within a heap and page.
Row Identifier (RID)
Primary key
Module
OUTER JOIN
21. Another name for an indexed view; Message Contains information that is sent within a Service Broker conversation.
Identlty
Stemmer
Event group
Materialized view
22. A ____ that includes only the rows that are in common in all tables referenced in the FROM clause
Cmdlets
Parameter
INNER JOIN
FOR XML
23. Is well formed; that is - it must have a root node.
Check constraint
XML document
Stored procedure
Impersonation
24. After a transaction is committed - the final state of the data is still available even if the server fails or is restarted
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
Durability
Impersonation
SQLCLR
25. A collection of properties and methods that provide a defined functionality.
Constraint
Aggregate function
Object
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
26. An international nonprofit organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services.
Distributed partitioned view
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Conversation priority
Change tables
27. 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
Identlty
Atomicity
Constraint
Impersonation
28. Defines where to deliver Service Broker messages. If not specified - the AutoCreatedLocal ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______ is used.
User-defined function (UDF)
Message type
Route
Nonclustered Index
29. Used to store ellipsoidal (round-earth) data - such as latitude and longitude coordinates
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Upper bound
Geography data type
User-defined function (UDF)
30. A process that provides inflectional matches to verbs and nouns based on the linguistic rules of the data language defined.
Stemmer
Materialized view
INNER JOIN
Thesaurus
31. Defines on which file group each ________ defined by a _______ function should be stored.
Indexed view
Partition scheme
Well-known binary (WKB)
Remote service binding
32. A constraint that is used to implement referential integrity between tables (or even within a single table)
Well-known text (WKT)
Partition scheme
Fllestream
Foreign key constraInt
33. A special case of a partitioned view where the member tables are stored on multiple SOL Server instances
Event group
Distributed partitioned view
XML
Primary key
34. A numeric value assigned to each connection to SQL Server.
Foreign key constraInt
Geography data type
Atomicity
System process ID (SPID)
35. The process of adding data to a full -text index either during creation or when the full-text index is built.
Methods
Population (crawl)
Parameter
Constraint
36. 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.
Token
Index
Scalar function
Primary key
37. A query that is embedded within - and references columns from - an outer query
DDL trigger
Function
Correlated subquery
Nondeterministic function
38. 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
Consistency
Population (crawl)
Partition scheme
Nonclustered Index
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.
Stored procedure
Filter
Scalar function
Primary key
40. A conversation between two specific Services - Broker services that provides exactly-once-in-order - (EOIO) message delivery
Event group
Conversation group
SQLCLR
Dialog
41. A query that is embedded within - but does not reference any columns from - an outer query.
Noncorrelated subquery
Heap
OGC Extended Methods
Conversation priority
42. A standard created by the OGC that is used to represent text-based descriptions of geospatial objects.
Token
Well-known text (WKT)
Noncorrelated subquery
OGC Extended Methods
43. A variable that is passed to a stored procedure or function.
Identlty
Conversation
Object
Parameter
44. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.
Route
UNION
Scalar function
Remote service binding
45. A trigger that executes in response to a DML event
Execution context
Well-known text (WKT)
DML trigger
Isolation
46. An object that contains significant words and their locations within the columns included in the index
Noncorrelated subquery
Full-text Index
Primary key
Methods
47. A ____ that utilizes a UNION ALL clause to combine multiple member tables of the same structure into a single result set.
PartItioned view
Geometry data type
XML
Constraint
48. 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
Filter
Word breaker
Full-text catalog
Module
49. 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
Queue
OUTER JOIN
Isolation
DML trigger
50. Used to configure SQL Server to send and receive messages over TCP/IP connections.
Row Identifier (RID)
Service Broker endpoint
OUTER JOIN
Message type