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SQL Server Vocab
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1. 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
Cursor
Durability
Queue
Consistency
2. A function that returns the same value every time it is executed given the same input parameters
PartItioned view
DetermInistic function
Table-valued function
Unique constraint
3. The process of adding data to a full -text index either during creation or when the full-text index is built.
Identlty
Event group
Population (crawl)
Remote service binding
4. 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.
Word breaker
Stemmer
Stored procedure
Indexed view
5. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.
Message type
Remote service binding
Queue
Gating role
6. A deterministic view that has a unique - clustered _____ created against it
INNER JOIN
Event group
UNION
Indexed view
7. A trigger that executes in response to a DML event
DML trigger
Service
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Conversation priority
8. An international nonprofit organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services.
Materialized view
Service Broker endpoint
Foreign key constraInt
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
9. A constraint that applies a Boolean expression to rows added or updated in tables to verify whether the update should be allowed
Function
Unique constraint
Check constraint
Change tables
10. A word or character string defined by a word breaker.
Token
Thesaurus
XML document
Index
11. The name given to the group of tasks within a Service Broker solution that require messages to be sent.
Durability
Heap
Service
Clustered Index
12. 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
Variable
XML
Fllestream
DDL trigger
13. A _________ that might return a different value each time it is called given the same input parameter.
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
Nondeterministic function
Primary key
XML document
14. 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.
Full-text catalog
JOIN
Stemmer
Module
15. A numeric value representing a physical location within a heap and page.
Schema binding
Row Identifier (RID)
Conversation
Partition scheme
16. After a transaction is committed - the final state of the data is still available even if the server fails or is restarted
Instantiation
Conversation
Nonclustered Index
Durability
17. Tables within a database that store modified rows in a database with CDC enabled
Stored procedure
Change tables
INNER JOIN
Full-text Index
18. A role specified when enabling CDC that is used to limit access to the change data
Message type
Function
Stopword
Gating role
19. A conversation between two specific Services - Broker services that provides exactly-once-in-order - (EOIO) message delivery
Term
Service Broker endpoint
Check constraint
Dialog
20. A ____ that utilizes a UNION ALL clause to combine multiple member tables of the same structure into a single result set.
Primary key
OGC Extended Methods
PartItioned view
Check constraint
21. An internal metric used by SOL Server to determine the amount of processing resources a given query plan will consume
Full-text catalog
Cost
Fllestream
Event group
22. A hidden table where Service Broker messages are stored until they are processed.
Full-Text Engine
Queue
Word breaker
SQLCLR
23. A run time inside SQL Server that allows some objects to be created using a NET language such as C# or Visual Basic NET.
Primary key
XML
Filter
SQLCLR
24. 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.
Correlated subquery
OUTER JOIN
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
User-defined function (UDF)
25. When two or more pieces of information are involved in a transaction - either all the pieces are committed or none of them are
Page
Cost
Filter
Atomicity
26. A virtual object that represents a group of full-text indexes
Well-known binary (WKB)
Full-text catalog
System process ID (SPID)
Partition scheme
27. A collection of properties and methods that provide a defined functionality.
Constraint
Object
Stoplist
XML data type
28. A function referenced in a SELECT clause that accepts an expression and returns a single value of a defined data type.
Message type
Foreign key constraInt
Scalar function
Nondeterministic function
29. Another name for an indexed view; Message Contains information that is sent within a Service Broker conversation.
Message type
Materialized view
Remote service binding
DDL trigger
30. A server-side object that allows you to retrieve and process a set of data on a row-by-row basis
OUTER JOIN
Indexed view
Cursor
Full-Text Engine
31. 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
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
User-defined function (UDF)
Impersonation
Identlty
32. 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.
Table-valued function
Log Sequence Number (LSN)
XML
Index
33. Actions an object can perform.
Fllestream
Full-Text Engine
Nondeterministic function
Methods
34. A set of code that is stored within a database; The ____ types supported by SQL Server are triggers - functions - views - and stored procedures.
Module
Page
Word breaker
Execution context
35. A ____ that includes only the rows that are in common in all tables referenced in the FROM clause
Well-known text (WKT)
INNER JOIN
XML fragment
Stemmer
36. A table without a clustered index; (A ____ can still have nonclustered indexes defined on it)
Page
Heap
DDL trigger
Cmdlets
37. The word - phrase - or character string included as input in the full -text query.
Recursive CTE
JOIN
Foreign key constraInt
Term
38. NET Framework applications that provide specialized functionality within SQL Server PowerShell
Stopword
Filter daemon host process (Fdhost exe)
Full-Text Engine
Cmdlets
39. The security credentials under which a code module is executed
Execution context
Term
Full-text catalog
Stoplist
40. A function that returns the results as a table data type.
Unique constraint
Table-valued function
Methods
Correlated subquery
41. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.
XML
Distributed partitioned view
Correlated subquery
Schema binding
42. The binary equivalent to WKT - which is sometimes used to transfer and store spatial data.
Foreign key constraInt
Upper bound
Well-known binary (WKB)
Parameter
43. A native SQL Sever data type that can handle both ____ fragments and documents as well as un typed and typed (schema validated) ___ data.
Filter
XML
XML data type
Fllestream
44. A ____ that includes all rows from an outer table and includes any rows from the inner table that match the _____ criteria.
OUTER JOIN
Constraint
Stopword
Noncorrelated subquery
45. An object that is used to store a scalar value for use within a function - trigger - or stored procedure.
Variable
OUTER JOIN
Term
Identlty
46. A query that is embedded within - but does not reference any columns from - an outer query.
OUTER JOIN
Noncorrelated subquery
Contract
Cursor
47. Defines the name and contents of a message.
Service Broker endpoint
Parameter
Message type
INNER JOIN
48. Defines where to deliver Service Broker messages. If not specified - the AutoCreatedLocal ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_______ is used.
Route
Service Broker endpoint
Page
Event group
49. Used to store planar data based on Euclidean space such as points - lines - and polygons
User-defined function (UDF)
Geometry data type
Foreign key constraInt
Well-known text (WKT)
50. 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
XML fragment
Route
Filter
Dialog