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SQL Server Vocab

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






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A process that manages third-party components such as filters - word breakers - and stemmers separated from the SQL Server process






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






13. 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






14. A collection of conversations that are related






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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. 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






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






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






35. Defines the name and contents of a message.






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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






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






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