federated servers, 244
alternative to, 255-256
Fetch statements, 96
flow-control statements, 77
Begin…End statements, 80-81
comments, 78-80
GoTo statements, 89-90
If statements, 81-86
WaitFor statements, 90
While statements, 86-89
four-part names, 54
full-text indexing and querying, 446-448
FullText Search, 5, 447
fully qualified names, 54
functions
aggregate, 132-134
as check and default constraints, 104
conversion, 115-118
date and time, 121-124
in expressions, 103
for handling identity values, 120-121
for handling null values, 113-115
instead of tables, 104-105
metadata, 131-132
as part of the selection criteria, 103
pass-through, 136-138
ranking, 134-136
returning current session information, 118-120
rowset, 136-142
scalar, 106-136
in selection and assignment, 102-103
side-effects, 306
string, 124-130
syntax, 102
table-valued, 104-105
user-defined, 304-314