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SQL Server Vocab

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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. A collection of conversations that are related






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Defines the name and contents of a message.






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






18. An index that imposes a physical order on the rows within a table- There can only be a single clustered index on a table






19. A number assigned to entries within a transaction log to aid with recovery; lower bound Defines a starting ________ to define a valid range of rows within a change table.






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. Another name for an indexed view; Message Contains information that is sent within a Service Broker conversation.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. A variable that is passed to a stored procedure or function.






48. 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






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






50. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.