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SQL Server Vocab

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






2. 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.






3. 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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations






15. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






17. A standard created by the OGC that is used to represent text-based descriptions of geospatial objects.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. A collection of conversations that are related






28. A hidden table where Service Broker messages are stored until they are processed.






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. Actions an object can perform.






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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.






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