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CLR The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is an application development environment that supports multiple languages, such as Visual Basic and C#. The CLR is integrated into the SQL Server engine so that CLR stored procedures may be developed.

Clustered Index A table index that dictates the ordering of data in the table and implements a b-tree index structure for rapid location of records (rows) based on the record ID column (field).

Clustering A method that allows multiple servers to act as one logical server on the network so that clients may access the logical server with high availability. SQL Server supports failover clustering.

Column The term used to reference a vertical collection of data values in a table. Often called a domain, the column ...

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