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SQL Server Vocab

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Actions an object can perform.






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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. 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.






30. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






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






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






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






35. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






48. Defines the name and contents of a message.






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






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