Course content

Designing a Database Strategy

• Identify which SQL Server components to use to support business requirements:
  SQL Server Agent, DB mail, Service Broker, Full-Text Search, Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC), linked servers
• Design a database model:
  normalization, entities, entity relationships
• Design a data model by using the Entity Framework:
  defining and maintaining mapping (query vs. stored proc), defining a data model, entity SQL
• Design an application strategy to support security:
  application roles, schema ownership, execution context, Windows vs. SQL authentication, permissions and database roles
• Design a solution by using Service Broker:
  designing services, contracts, activation, routes, message types, queues, remote service binding, priorities
• Design a Full-Text Search strategy:
  CONTAINS, CONTAINSTABLE, FREETEXT, FREETEXTTABLE

Designing Database Tables

• Identify the appropriate usage of new data types:
  geography, geometry, hierarchyid, date, time, datetime2, datetimeoffset, varbinary (max) filestream
• Design tables:
  table width, sizing data types, IN_ROW_DATA (BLOBs), overflow data, sparse columns, computed columns, persisted computed columns
• Design data integrity:
  primary key, foreign key, check constraint, default constraint, NULL/NOT NULL, unique constraint, DML triggers

Designing Programming Objects

• Design T-SQL stored procedures:
  execution context (EXECUTE AS), table-valued parameters, determining appropriate way to return data, WITH RECOMPILE/OPTION (RECOMPILE), error handling, TRY/CATCH
• Design views:
  common table expressions, partitioned views, WITH CHECK OPTION, WITH SCHEMABINDING
• Design T-SQL table-valued and scalar functions:
  inline table-valued functions vs. views, multi-statement table-valued functions, determinism
• Design Common Language Runtime (CLR) table-valued and scalar functions:
  assembly PERMISSION_SET, CLR vs. T-SQL, ordered vs. non-ordered
• Design CLR stored procedures, aggregates, and types:
  assembly PERMISSION_SET, CLR vs. T-SQL, ordered vs. non-ordered, executing static methods on user-defined types, multi-parameter aggregations
• Evaluate special programming constructs:
  prepared SQL (CREATE PROCEDURE… WITH EXECUTE AS) procedure, protecting against SQL injection

Designing a Transaction and Concurrency Strategy

• Design the locking granularity level:
  locking hints, memory consumption
• Design for implicit and explicit transactions:
  nested transactions, savepoints, TRY/CATCH
• Design for concurrency:
  hints, transaction isolation level, effect of database option READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT, rowversion and timestamp datatypes

Designing an XML Strategy

• Design XML storage:
  determining when to use XML for storage, untyped vs. typed (XML schema collection)
• Design a strategy to query and modify XML data:
  when to use appropriate XPath and XQuery expressions, .query vs. .value, XML indexes for performance, typed vs. untyped, .exist, .modify
• Design a query strategy by using FOR XML:
  views, FOR XML PATH and EXPLICIT, FOR XML…TYPE
• Design a strategy to transform XML into relational data:
   .nodes, .value, .query, XQuery and XPath

Designing Queries for Performance

• Optimize and tune queries:
   optimizer hints, common table expressions (CTEs), search conditions, temporary storage, GROUP BY [GROUPING SETS|CUBE|ROLLUP]
• Analyze execution plans:
  execution order, logical and physical operators, join operators, minimize resource costs, compare query costs
• Evaluate the use of row-based operations vs. set-based operations:
   row-based logic vs. set-based logic, batching, splitting implicit transactions

Designing a Database for Optimal Performance

• Optimize indexing strategies:
  table-valued function, views, filtered indexes, indexed views, clustered and non-clustered, unique
• Design scalable database solutions:
  scale up vs. scale out, federated databases, distributed partitioned views, scalable shared databases, replication, offloading read-only query (database mirroring)
• Resolve performance problems by using plan guides:
  object plan guides, SQL plan guides, templates plan guides, dynamic management views
• Design a table and index compression strategy:
   row vs. page, update frequency, page compression implementation, compressing individual partitions
• Design a table and index partitioning strategy:
  switching partitions, merging, splitting, staging, creating, schemes and functions
   

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Audience Profile

Candidates for this course typically work in an enterprise environment that has more than 500 personal computers and more than 100 servers and mostly create solutions for all types of enterprise issues. Candidates should have experience with the following:

• Writing transact SQL queries
• Programming the database
• Troubleshooting programming objects (for example, stored procedures, triggers, user-defined functions [UDFs], user-defined types [UDTs], and queries)
• Database performance tuning and optimization
• Designing databases at both the conceptual and logical levels
• Implementing databases at the physical level
• Might be involved in designing and troubleshooting the data access layer of the application
• Gathering business requirements

Certification

Exam 70-451: PRO: Designing Database Solutions and Data Access Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Database Developer 2008