MS10776
Beta: Developing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases
This 5-day instructor-led course introduces SQL Server 2012 and describes logical table design, indexing and query plans. It also focusses on the creation of database objects including views, stored procedures, along with parameters, and functions. Other common aspects of procedure coding, such as transactions, concurrency, error handling, triggers, and SQL CLR are also covered in this course. Also this course helps you prepare for the Exam 70-464
The Beta version of this course (10776AB) utilizes pre-release software in the virtual machine for the labs. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is used in this course. Some of the exercises in this course are SQL Azure enabled.
This training can be paid by SA-Voucher
Below are the some of the new features of SQL Server that has been discussed in this course
- Use of SC collations
- Use of TRY_PARSE, TRY_CONVERT
- Detailed discussion on IDENTITY constraints
- Working with SEQUENCES
- Slight course reordering to improve overall flow
- Use of THROW and comparisons to RAISERROR
- Full-globe and arc support in spatial
- Customizable nearness in full-text
Audience:
The primary audience for this course is IT Professionals who want to become skilled on SQL Server 2012 product features and technologies for implementing a database.
Objectives:
- Introduce the entire SQL Server platform and its major tools. It will cover editions, versions, basics of network listeners, and concepts of services and service accounts.
- Determine appropriate data types to be used when designing tables, convert data between data types, and create alias data types.
- Be aware of good design practices regarding SQL Server tables and be able to create tables using T-SQL. (Note: partitioned tables are not covered).
- Implement PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, DEFAULT, CHECK and UNIQUE constraints, and investigate cascading FOREIGN KEY constraints.
- Determine appropriate single column and composite indexes strategies.
- Create tables as heaps and tables with clustered indexes. Also consider the design of a table and suggest an appropriate structure.
- Read and interpret details of common elements from execution plans.
- Design effective non-clustered indexes.
- Design and implement views
- Design and implement stored procedures.
- Work with table types, table valued parameters and use the MERGE statement to create stored procedures that update data warehouses.
- Design and implement functions, both scalar and table-valued. (Also describe where they can lead to performance issues).
- Perform basic investigation of a deadlock situation and learn how transaction isolation levels affect application concurrency.
- Use both traditional T-SQL error handling code and structured exception handling.
- Design and implement DML triggers
- Learn appropriate uses for SQL CLR integration and implement an existing .NET assembly within SQL Server.
- Store XML data and schemas in SQL Server.
- Perform basic queries on XML data in SQL Server.
- Work with the GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY data types
- Implement and query a full-text index.
Course outline:
Module 1 Introduction to SQL Server and its Toolset
- Introduction to the SQL Server Platform
- Working with SQL Server Components
- Configuring SQL Server Services
Module 2 - Working with Data Types
- Using Data Types
- Working with Character Data
- Converting Data Types
- Specialized Data Types
Module 3 - Designing and Implementing Tables
- Designing Tables
- Working with Schemas
- Creating and Altering Tables
Module 4 - Ensuring Data Integrity through Constraints
- Enforcing Data Integrity
- Implementing Domain Integrity
- Implementing Entity and Referential Integrity
Module 5 - Planning for SQL Server Indexing
- Core Indexing Concepts
- Data Types and Indexes
- Single Column and Composite Indexes
Module 6 - Implementing Table Structures in SQL Server Code
- SQL Server Table Structures
- Working with Clustered Indexes
- Designing Effective Clustered Indexes
Module 7 - Reading SQL Server Execution Plans
- Execution Plan Core Concepts
- Common Execution Plan Elements
- Working with Execution Plans
Module 8 - Improving Performance through Nonclustered Indexes
- Designing Effective Nonclustered Indexes
- Implementing Nonclustered Indexes
- Using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor
Module 9 - Designing and Implementing Views
- Introduction to Views
- Creating and Managing Views
- Performance Considerations for Views
Module 10 - Designing and Implementing Stored Procedures
- Introduction to Stored Procedures
- Working With Stored Procedures
- Implementing Parameterized Stored Procedures
- Controlling Execution Context
Module 11 - Merging Data and Passing Tables
- Working with the MERGE Statement
- Implementing Table Types
- Using TABLE Types As Parameters
Module 12 - Designing and Implementing User-Defined Functions
Overview of Functions
- Designing and Implementing Scalar Functions
- Designing and Implementing Table-Valued Functions
- Implementation Considerations for Functions
- Alternatives To Functions
Module 13 - Creating Highly Concurrent SQL Server Applications
- Introduction to Transactions
- Introduction to Locks
- Management of Locking
- Transaction Isolation Levels
Module 14 - Handling Errors in T-SQL Code
- Understanding T-SQL Error Handling
- Implementing T-SQL Error Handling
- Implementing Structured Exception Handling
Module 15 - Responding to Data Manipulation via Triggers
- Designing DML Triggers
- Implementing DML Triggers
- Advanced Trigger Concepts
Module 16 -Implementing Managed Code in SQL Server
- Introduction to SQL CLR Integration
- Importing and Configuring Assemblies
- Implementing SQL CLR Integration
Module 17 - Storing XML Data in SQL Server
- Introduction to XML and XML Schemas
- Storing XML Data and Schemas in SQL Server
- Implementing the XML Data Type
Module 18 - Querying XML Data in SQL Server
- Using the T-SQL FOR XML Statement
- Getting Started with XQuery
- Shredding XML
Module 19 - Working with SQL Server Spatial Data
- Introduction to Spatial Data
- Working with SQL Server Spatial Data Types
- Using Spatial Data in Applications
Module 20 - Working with Full-Text Indexes and Queries
- Introduction to Full-Text Indexing
- Implementing Full-Text Indexes in SQL Server
- Working with Full-Text Queries