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

Course length, hours:40
Price of the course, LVL (VAT not included):880.00

Schedules

Date, timePlaceLanguage
9.September - 13.September, 2013 Rīga, Tallinas 4Latvian
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This five-day instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills that IT Professionals need to design, optimize, and maintain SQL Server 2008 database.

Audience Profile:

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.

Prerequisites:

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

At Course Completion:

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 Outline:

1. Designing a Conceptual Database Model:

  • Overview of Database Design
  • Gathering Database Requirements
  • Creating a Conceptual Database Design
  • Overview of Entity Framework

2. Designing a Logical Database Model:

  • Guidelines for Building a Logical Database Model
  • Planning for OLTP Activity
  • Evaluating Logical Models

3. Designing a Physical Database Model:

  • Selecting Data Types
  • Designing Database Tables
  • Designing Data Integrity

4. Designing Databases for Optimal Performance:

  • Guidelines for Designing Indexes
  • Designing a Partitioning Strategy
  • Designing a Plan Guide
  • Designing Scalable Databases

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

6. Designing a Strategy for Database Access:

  • Guidelines for Designing Secure Data Access
  • Designing Views
  • Designing Stored Procedures
  • Designing User-Defined Functions

7. Designing Queries for Optimal Performance:

  • Considerations for Optimizing Queries for Performance
  • Refactoring Cursors into Queries
  • Extending Set-Based Operations

8. Designing a Transaction and Concurrency Strategy:

  • Guidelines for Defining Transactions
  • Defining Isolation Levels
  • Guidelines for Designing a Resilient Transaction Strategy

9. Designing an XML Strategy:

  • Designing XML Storage
  • Designing a Data Conversion Strategy
  • Designing an XML Query Strategy

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