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SQL Server Vocab

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






2. A collection of conversations that are related






3. A query that is embedded within - but does not reference any columns from - an outer query.






4. Tables within a database that store modified rows in a database with CDC enabled






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






6. 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.






7. Sets the relative precedence for Service Broker conversations






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






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






10. The binary equivalent to WKT - which is sometimes used to transfer and store spatial data.






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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. A word or character string defined by a word breaker.






19. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






21. When two or more pieces of information are involved in a transaction - either all the pieces are committed or none of them are






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. The security credentials under which a code module is executed






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






36. Is well formed; that is - it must have a root node.






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






38. 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.






39. A _________ that might return a different value each time it is called given the same input parameter.






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. A function that returns the same value every time it is executed given the same input parameters







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