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SQL Server Vocab

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






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






3. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






5. 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






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






7. Defines where to deliver Service Broker messages. If not specified - the AutoCreatedLocal ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______ is used.






8. 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.






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. A table without a clustered index; (A ____ can still have nonclustered indexes defined on it)






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






25. 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.






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 that is commonly used and adds no meaning to a search - such as a - an - and the; _________s in SQL Server 2008 provide similar functionality to noise words in SQL Server 2005.






28. A reference ID associated with a specific model of the earth. These IDs reference the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) standard identification system.






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. A collection of conversations that are related






48. An index that imposes a physical order on the rows within a table- There can only be a single clustered index on a table






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






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