Microsoft .NET: Jumpstart for Systems Administrators and Developers
By Nigel Stanley
Glossary
A-C
ADO (ActiveX Data Objects)
Object interface into the OLEDB programming interface.
ADO .NET
API in .NET for data access.
ACL
Access Control List. Contains lists of users and their appropriate permissions.
AIC
Application Integration Component. Software that allows BizTalk Server to send documents and files to a line of business applications.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A computer character set and collating sequence.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute. A leading force behind the SQL standard.
Assembly
A collection of code and associated elements that comprises a Microsoft .NET solution created in Visual Studio .NET.
Authenticode
A framework that allows a developer to include digital signature information about programming code, including author details.
Batch File
A number of Transact-SQL statements executed together either interactively or from a file.
Blob
Binary Large Object. A datatype used for storing unstructured data such as pictures, sound or video. The actual datatype used in SQL Server is the image datatype.
BizTalk Initiative
Industrywide initiative designed to encourage the use of XML in businessto- business transactions. See www.biztalk.org.
Checkpoint
A mechanism that ensures that completed transactions are written from cache to the database at frequent intervals.
CLB
Component Load Balancing. Technique to spread a workload across components equally to improve processing throughput.
Clustered Index
A type of index where the physical order of the data in the table is the same as the order in the index. There can only be one clustered index per table.
Column
A relational model term that...
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