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SQL Server Vocab

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






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. 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






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






14. After a transaction is committed - the final state of the data is still available even if the server fails or is restarted






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






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






17. Actions an object can perform.






18. 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.






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. One column per table can be defined as its identity; The __________ property automatically generates a new increased or decreased number for the column when rows are inserted into the table






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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