Monday, March 19, 2012

Does MS have a glossary of terms?

There are several terms using ms Server that I don't know and cannot find in my books. Does MS provide that, besides BOL where it is difficult to find good explanations or even find definitions?

thx,

Kat

ps. would be a nice feature if they don't have it currently.

I don't know of any off the top of my head. Are there any particular ones that you are hitting? We could start the list if one doesn't already exist. :)

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)

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Hi Sam,

I marked your answer as not helpful in case anyone else has another answer. I use Wikopedia right now but it isn't specific to MS Products. I'll start keeping a list. Some may be silly to others but I've been out for a couple years and am playing catchup. One that I posted already and believe I understand is:

Federated Servers vs

Horizontal Partitioning

Scan: this means reading the entire table? Row by row?

As I said, some of these are just easy but I will continue my list. When I look something up in a book's index, I expect a reference and they aren't always there...

thx,

Kat

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Hi Sam,

I will start my list. This may be something that could be posted in the beginner's forum. I'm playing catchup after 2 yrs off. Wikopedia helps but isn't specific to Microsoft products. Most books don't have glossaries with terms which would be so great to have. Makes reading a lot easier!

Federated Sever vs. Horizontal Partitioning

Scan: does this always mean reading a table row by row?

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