RETURNS

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DBX-DEP

Each book explains RETURNS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• FUNCTION

  Registered models count as functions in Unity Catalog, so this securable type governs them too: access is given through GRANT ... ON FUNCTION, and REST calls pass FUNCTION as securable_type.

• Event

  Table in Log Analytics where entries from Windows event logs are kept.

• CREATE FUNCTION

  Adds a table function, or a Python or SQL UDF, to Unity Catalog so that it falls under governance like other objects. Doing so takes the relevant privilege on the schema.

• Serverless

  Compute tier for single Azure SQL databases that scales automatically, pauses when idle and charges by the second. It is offered in General Purpose and Hyperscale, not Business Critical, and reserved capacity does not apply.

Related terms

• ACK

  Short for the acknowledgement flag in TCP. A target that returns it on the chosen port passes a load balancer's TCP health check.

• ai_classify

  Sorts content under labels you define, whether plain text or the VARIANT that ai_parse_document returns. This task-specific AI Function can also take instructions and a description of each label.

• ai_prep_search

  Readies content for a search index: this AI Function, still in Beta, takes plain text, Markdown or the result of ai_parse_document and returns meaning-based chunks carrying context from the document.

• AnalysisResult

  Object that poller.result() returns in Content Understanding; its JSON body carries the extracted fields and markdown content.

• APD

  A state where a storage device returns no permanent device loss code to an ESXi host, so the host carries on issuing I/O. After a storage-only outage, VMCP APD is what lets Metro Availability on ESXi move VMs elsewhere.

• Area of interest

  Smart-crop capability of Image Analysis that, for a requested aspect ratio, returns a bounding box around the most important part of the image, useful for thumbnails and cropping.

• Autopilot Reset

  Returns a Microsoft Entra joined device to a ready-for-work state by clearing personal files, apps and settings, while it stays Entra joined and enrolled in Intune. It can be triggered remotely or on the device with Ctrl+Win+R, but hybrid joined devices aren't supported.

• AVERAGEX

  Returns the mean of an expression after computing it once for each row in a table; if the table has no rows, this DAX iterator gives BLANK.