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SQL Server Vocab

Subject : it-skills
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1. A collection of conversations that are related






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






3. Provides security to dialogs connecting to remote databases.






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






5. Defines the name and contents of a message.






6. A specification by the World Wide Web Consortium for transmitting and storing semi structured data.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






28. Actions an object can perform.






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






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






31. A part of the SQL Server process that manages full-text administrative tasks - handles full-text query execution - and manages the filter daemon host process






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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