Glossary A Acceleration Active Directory ActiveX Data Object Ad hoc Report AES 128 bit Encryption AES 256 bit Encryption Agents Aggregate Query Aggregation Allocation Map Allocation Unit AlwaysOn Availability B Backup Bandwidth Base Backup Benchmarking Bloat Bottlenecking Buffer Pool Bulk Loading Business Intelligence C Compression Concurrency Continuous Data Protection Cross-database Chaining Custom Metrics CX Packet D Data Capture Data Growth Data Scrambling Data Warehousing Database Autoshrink Database Forensics Disk Usage Dynamic Link Libraries Dynamic SQL E Effective Permissions Entity Entity Framework ESX Hosts F Fail-over Operator FERPA Audit Fill-factor Filter Driver Full Recovery Model G Global Assembly Cache Graphical User Interface (GUI) Group By H Hekaton High Availability Cluster HIPAA Audit Hybrid Cloud SQL Server Hyper-V I Indexing Index Rebuild Infrastructure as a Service IntelliCompress IntelliRestore Inventory Management J Join Optimization K Kernel KVM Switch L Latch Wait Latency Linq Linux Hot Copy Log Shipping LVM M Master File Table MDX Merge Replication Middleware Mirror Database Mount Points MSSQL N Native Compression Nesting NodeXL Normalization NoSQL O Object Level Recovery Online Transaction Processing Overflow Error P Page Split Parallelism Parallels Cloud Server Partial Differential Backup PCI Audit PowerShell PowerShell Scripts Q Query Quorum R Replication Replication Monitor Repositive Recovery Model Restore Root Cause Analysis S Scaffolding Scalability Schema SCOM Spatial Data T Tabular Data Stream Task Automation Tempdb Transaction Log Viewer Transact SQL U Ubuntu V Virtualization VMware X XML Schema Collection XPath