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- named pipe
- An interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism that Microsoft SQL Server™ and Open Data Services use to provide communication between clients and servers. Named pipes permit access to shared network resources.
- namespace (XML)
- See XML namespace.
- node
- The basic unit of the XML Document Object Model. There are twelve types of nodes in the XML Document Object Model.
- noise word
- Keywords that a valid database search would likely not need, such as articles, pronouns, prepositions, and a few simple verb forms.
- nonclustered index
- An index in which the logical order of the index does not match the physical, stored order of the rows on disk. A nonclustered index uses the order of the index key values and has a pointer to the storage location of the data.
- normalizing
- To process of minimizing the duplication of information in a relational database through effective table design.
- n-tier application
- An application that divides its processing into logical layers. In a Windows DNA application, these layers are the user-services tier, the business-services tier, and the data-services tier. For more information, see N-Tier Development Model.
- n-tier architecture
- See Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture.
- NTLM Security
- See Windows NT Challenge/Response.
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