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SQL Server Vocab
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1. A way to make SQL Server return a stream making up an XML document or fragment
Nondeterministic function
Heap
FOR XML
Service Broker endpoint
2. The smallest storage object maintained by SQL Server; a _____ is exactly 8 KB in size.
JOIN
Remote service binding
Page
Cursor
3. The security credentials under which a code module is executed
Service Broker endpoint
Execution context
OGC Extended Methods
Service
4. A trigger that executes in response to a DDL event
Stemmer
DDL trigger
OGC Extended Methods
DML trigger
5. A process that manages third-party components such as filters - word breakers - and stemmers separated from the SQL Server process
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
INNER JOIN
OUTER JOIN
6. The word - phrase - or character string included as input in the full -text query.
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Term
Durability
Function
7. A function that returns the same value every time it is executed given the same input parameters
DetermInistic function
OUTER JOIN
Module
Conversation priority
8. The binary equivalent to WKT - which is sometimes used to transfer and store spatial data.
Atomicity
Distributed partitioned view
Term
Well-known binary (WKB)
9. Defines where to deliver Service Broker messages. If not specified - the AutoCreatedLocal ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______ is used.
Route
XML document
Well-known text (WKT)
Conversation group
10. A role specified when enabling CDC that is used to limit access to the change data
Term
Geography data type
Queue
Gating role
11. 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.
Word breaker
Well-known text (WKT)
Geometry data type
PartItioned view
12. The process of adding data to a full -text index either during creation or when the full-text index is built.
XML
Atomicity
Clustered Index
Population (crawl)
13. NET Framework applications that provide specialized functionality within SQL Server PowerShell
User-defined function (UDF)
Partition scheme
Cmdlets
Stored procedure
14. A ____ that utilizes a UNION ALL clause to combine multiple member tables of the same structure into a single result set.
XML data type
Primary key
PartItioned view
Partition scheme
15. 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
Contract
Unique constraint
Route
Well-known text (WKT)
16. A conversation between two specific Services - Broker services that provides exactly-once-in-order - (EOIO) message delivery
Atomicity
DetermInistic function
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Dialog
17. Defines on which file group each ________ defined by a _______ function should be stored.
Stoplist
XML document
System process ID (SPID)
Partition scheme
18. A collection of conversations that are related
UNION
Conversation group
Scalar function
Module
19. 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.
Impersonation
Primary key
FOR XML
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
20. Defines an ending Log Sequence Number (LSN) to define a valid range of rows within a change table.
DML trigger
Upper bound
Aggregate function
Clustered Index
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.
Impersonation
User-defined function (UDF)
Conversation priority
Filter
22. 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
User-defined function (UDF)
Fllestream
Term
Index
23. Another name for an indexed view; Message Contains information that is sent within a Service Broker conversation.
Indexed view
Materialized view
PartItioned view
Durability
24. A numeric value assigned to each connection to SQL Server.
Route
Check constraint
System process ID (SPID)
Row Identifier (RID)
25. 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
Cost
Instantiation
XML
Unique constraint
26. 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
Conversation
Filter
Isolation
Geometry data type
27. A database object that is used to manage stopwords; There is a system-defined stoplist and you can also create your own stoplists.
Isolation
Stoplist
Recursive CTE
OUTER JOIN
28. The process of producing a particular instance of an object based on the object's properties and methods
Instantiation
XML data type
Upper bound
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
29. 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
Isolation
XML fragment
Conversation
Recursive CTE
30. 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.
OUTER JOIN
Schema binding
Consistency
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
31. Is not well-formed; that is - it does not have a root node.
Atomicity
Scalar function
XML fragment
Stopword
32. A reference ID associated with a specific model of the earth. These IDs reference the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) standard identification system.
Parameter
PartItioned view
Spatial reference identifier (SRID)
Object
33. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations
Conversation priority
Correlated subquery
Route
SQL Full Text Filter Daemon launcher (Fdlauncher:exe)
34. 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
PartItioned view
OUTER JOIN
Table-valued function
Nonclustered Index
35. A TSQL operator that combines the result sets from multiple queries.
Population (crawl)
Full-text catalog
UNION
Distributed partitioned view
36. The process by which a user assumes the security credentials of another user
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
Recursive CTE
Partition scheme
Impersonation
37. A query that is embedded within - but does not reference any columns from - an outer query.
Noncorrelated subquery
Indexed view
Schema binding
Full-text Index
38. An internal metric used by SOL Server to determine the amount of processing resources a given query plan will consume
Partition function
XML
Cost
Correlated subquery
39. A native SQL Sever data type that can handle both ____ fragments and documents as well as un typed and typed (schema validated) ___ data.
XML data type
FOR XML
Heap
Indexed view
40. An international nonprofit organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services.
Variable
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Aggregate function
Full-Text Engine
41. A collection of properties and methods that provide a defined functionality.
Cursor
Object
Constraint
Durability
42. A constraint that applies a Boolean expression to rows added or updated in tables to verify whether the update should be allowed
Word breaker
Check constraint
Conversation
Stoplist
43. A long-term - asynchronous - and reliable communication channel across which messages are sent by using Service Broker
DetermInistic function
Conversation
XML
Stemmer
44. After a transaction is committed - the final state of the data is still available even if the server fails or is restarted
System process ID (SPID)
Geography data type
DDL trigger
Durability
45. Defines the name and contents of a message.
Message type
Function
Atomicity
Stopword
46. Tables within a database that store modified rows in a database with CDC enabled
Aggregate function
Heap
Change tables
Conversation
47. 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.
Conversation priority
Row Identifier (RID)
Stopword
Page
48. A query that is embedded within - and references columns from - an outer query
User-defined function (UDF)
Correlated subquery
Change tables
Conversation
49. A table without a clustered index; (A ____ can still have nonclustered indexes defined on it)
Constraint
Filter
Heap
Geometry data type
50. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.
Route
Parameter
Stored procedure
XML