Glossary
- ACID
An acronym for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability, the four properties required for a valid transaction.
- Action, Notification Services
A T-SQL query used by Notification Services when firing a subscription rule.
- activation stored procedure
A stored procedure used to read a Service Broker queue and process messages on arrival.
- active/active cluster
Two active/passive clusters that share the same hardware, each acting as the standby server for the other.
- active/passive cluster
See failover cluster.
- ad hoc report
A report developed by a business user using a single data source and applying limited formatting.
- Address Windowing Extension (AWE)
The software component that allows SQL Server to access more than 4 GB of memory.
- aggregation ...
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