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SQL Server Vocab

Subject : it-skills
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1. A constraint that is used to implement referential integrity between tables (or even within a single table)






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. A collection of conversations that are related






33. 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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






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






40. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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






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