50401, Designing and Optimizing Database Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

	This five-day instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills that IT Professionals need to design, optimize, and maintain SQL Server 2008 database.
	Duration: 5.0 day(s) Price: £1230.00 + VAT	Download Course Content   Download Course Files

Locations

Infero Ltd is based in the Lace Market in Nottingham. Training courses take place at the following locations including Nottingham, Derby, Loughborough, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Burton-on-Trent, Lincoln, Leicester, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham, Solihul, Coventry, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Grantham.

Target Students

The audience of this course is developers who implement database solutions or perform development utilizing the programming features and functionality of SQL Server. Students taking this course are expected to have three or more years of experience working on databases for two or more of the following phases in the product lifecycle - design, development, deployment, optimization, maintenance, or support. They should possess a four-year college degree, BS or BA, in the computer field.

The students should have experience in the following areas:

• Developing databases
• Writing Transact-SQL queries
• Designing, implementing and troubleshooting programming objects
• Doing database performance tuning and optimization
• Designing databases at both the conceptual and logical levels
• Implementing databases at the physical level
• Designing and troubleshooting the data access layer of an application
• Gathering business requirements

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Working knowledge of data storage. Specifically, they should know about row layout, fixed length field placement and varying length field placement.
• Knowledge about index structures and index utilization. Specifically, they must understand the interaction between non-clustered indexes, clustered indexes and heaps. They must know why a covering index can improve performance.
• Hands-on database developer experience. Specifically, they should have three years of experience as a full-time database developer in an enterprise environment.
• Knowledge about the locking model. Specifically, students should have an understanding of lock modes, lock objects and isolation levels and be familiar with process blocking.
• Understanding of Transact-SQL syntax and programming logic. Specifically, students should be completely fluent in advanced queries, aggregate queries, subqueries, user-defined functions, cursors, control of flow statements, CASE expressions, and all types of joins.
• Knowledge about the trade offs when backing out of the fully normalized design and designing for performance and business requirements in addition to being familiar with design models, such as Star and Snowflake schemas. They should be able to design a database to third normal form (3NF).
• Strong monitoring and troubleshooting skills, including usage of monitoring tools.
• Basic knowledge of the operating system and platform. That is, how the operating system integrates with the database, what the platform or operating system can do, and how interaction between the operating system and the database works.
• Basic knowledge of application architecture. That is, how applications can be designed in three layers, what applications can do, how interaction between the application and the database works, and how the interaction between the database and the platform or operating system works.
• Knowledge of using a data modeling tool.
• Knowledge of SQL Server 2005 features, tools, and technologies.
• Have a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 credential - or equivalent experience.

In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:

• 2779, Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database
• 2780, Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Design a database design strategy
• Design a database for optimal performance
• Design security for a database
• Design programming objects
• Design queries for performance
• Design a transaction and concurrency strategy
• Design an XML strategy

Course Content

Module 1: Designing a Conceptual Database Model

Overview of Database Design
Gathering Database Requirements
Creating a Conceptual Database Design
Overview of Entity Framework
Lab: Designing a Conceptual Database Model
Formulating a Conceptual Database Design
Creating a Conceptual Database Design

Module 2: Designing a Logical Database Model

Guidelines for Building a Logical Database Model
Planning for OLTP Activity
Evaluating Logical Models
Lab: Designing a Logical Database Model
Creating a Logical Database Model
Normalizing the Logical Database Model

Module 3: Designing a Physical Database Model

Selecting Data Types
Designing Database Tables
Designing Data Integrity
Lab: Designing a Physical Database Model
Specifying Database Object Naming Standards
Converting a Logical Database Model into a Physical Database Model

Module 4: Designing Databases for Optimal Performance

Guidelines for Designing Indexes
Designing a Partitioning Strategy
Designing a Plan Guide
Designing Scalable Databases
Lab: Designing Databases for Optimal Performance
Applying Optimization Techniques
Creating Plan Guides
Designing a Partitioning Strategy

Module 5: Designing Security for SQL Server 2008

Exploring Security in SQL Server 2008
Implementing Identity and Access Control
Guidelines for Secure Development in SQL Server 2008
Guidelines for Secure Deployment of SQL Server 2008
Guidelines for Secure Operations
Lab: Designing Security for SQL Server 2008
Designing Secure Development
Implementing Secure Operations
Copying an Unencrypted Database
Implementing Transparent Data Encryption
Attempting to Copy an Encrypted Database

Module 6: Designing a Strategy for Database Access

Guidelines for Designing Secure Data Access
Designing Views
Designing Stored Procedures
Designing User-Defined Functions
Lab: Designing a Strategy for Database Access
Designing Security for Data Retrieval Objects
Designing Data Retrieval Objects

Module 7: Designing Queries for Optimal Performance

Considerations for Optimizing Queries for Performance
Refactoring Cursors into Queries
Extending Set-Based Operations
Lab: Designing Queries for Optimal Performance
Optimizing Query Performance
Refactoring Cursors into Queries

Module 8: Designing a Transaction and Concurrency Strategy

Guidelines for Defining Transactions
Defining Isolation Levels
Guidelines for Designing a Resilient Transaction Strategy
Lab: Designing a Transaction and Concurrency Strategy
Determining the Database Isolation Level
Determining the Order of Object Access
Designing Transactions

Module 9: Designing an XML Strategy

Designing XML Storage
Designing an XML Query Strategy
Designing a Data Conversion Strategy
Lab: Designing an XML Strategy
Designing an XML Data Storage Model
Converting Data Between XML and Relational Forms

Module 10: Designing SQL Server 2008 Components

Overview of SQL Server 2008 Components
Designing a Service Broker Architecture
Designing the Service Broker Data Flow
Designing the Service Broker Availability
Exploring Full-Text Search
Designing a Full-Text Search Strategy
Lab: Designing SQL Server 2008 Components
Analyzing the Organizational Needs
Designing a Service Broker Solution Model
Designing a Detailed Service Broker Solution
Implementing the Service Broker Solution