Developing Microsoft® SQL Server® Databases

Work with SQL Server tools.

Configure SQL Server Services.

This module explains how to design, create, and alter tables. Also it focusses on working with schemas.

Designing Tables

Working with Schemas

Creating and Altering Tables

Improving the Design of Tables

Creating a Schema

Creating the Tables

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Design Tables.

Work with Schemas.

Create and Alter Tables.

This module explains how to enforce data integrity, and implement domain integrity to maintain high quality data. Also it focusses on implementing Entity and Referential Integrity.

Enforcing Data Integrity

Implementing Domain Integrity

Implementing Entity and Referential Integrity

Designing Constraints

Testing the constraints

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain the available options for enforcing data integrity and the levels at which they should be applied.

Implement domain integrity.

Implement entity and referential integrity.

This module describes the concept of an index and discusses selectivity, density and statistics. It covers appropriate data type choices and choices around composite index structures.

Core Indexing Concepts

Single Column and Composite Indexes

SQL Server Table Structures

Working with Clustered Indexes

Creating Tables with Clustered Indexes

Improving Performance through Nonclustered Indexes

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe core indexing concepts.

Choose appropriate data types for indexes.

Design and implement clustered and nonclustered indexes.

This module explains covering indexes and the INCLUDE clause as well as the use of padding, hints and statistics. The module also covers the use of the Database Engine Tuning Advisor and index-related dynamic management views to assess indexing strategies.

Execution Plan Core Concepts

Common Execution Plan Elements

Working with Execution Plans

Designing Effective Nonclustered Indexes

Performance Monitoring

Exploring Existing Index Statistics

Creating Covering Indexes

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the elements of an execution plan.

Design effective indexing strategies.

Monitor your system to assess the performance of your indexing strategy.

This module explains columnstore indexes, introduces clustered and nonclustered columnstore indexes, and discusses considerations for using columnstore indexes.

Lessons

Columnstore Indexes

Best Practices for Columnstore Indexes

Lab : Using In-Memory Database Capabilities

Creating Columnstore Indexes

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Create columnstore indexes

Describe the considerations for updating tables with non-clustered columnstore indexes.

This module introduces Views, and explains how to create and manage Views. Also it focusses on the performance consideration for Views.

Introduction to Views

Creating and Managing Views

Performance Considerations for Views

Designing, Implementing and Testing the WebStock Views

Designing and Implementing the Contacts View

Modifying the AvailableModels View

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain the role of views in database development.

Implement views.

Describe the performance related impacts of views

This module describes the potential advantages of the use of stored procedures along with guidelines on creating them.

Introduction to Stored Procedures

Working With Stored Procedures

Implementing Parameterized Stored Procedures

Controlling Execution Context

Creating stored procedures

Creating a parameterized stored procedure

Altering the execution context of stored procedures

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the role of stored procedures and the potential benefits of using them.

Work with stored procedures.

Implement parameterized stored procedures.

Control the execution context of a stored procedure.

This module explains how to design and implement user-defined functions that enforce business rules or data consistency, and modify and maintain existing functions written by other developers.

Overview of Functions

Designing and Implementing Scalar Functions

Designing and Implementing Table-Valued Functions

Implementation Considerations for Functions

Alternatives to Functions

Formatting Phone Numbers

Modifying an Existing Function

Resolving a Function-Related Performance Issue

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Design and implement scalar functions.

Design and implement table-valued functions.

Describe implementation considerations for functions.

Describe alternatives to functions.

This module, explains what DML triggers are and how they enforce data integrity. Also it focusses on the different types of triggers available, and how to define triggers in a database.

Designing DML Triggers

Implementing DML Triggers

Advanced Trigger Concepts

Creating and Testing the Audit Trigger

Improving the Audit Trigger

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Design DML triggers.

Implement DML triggers.

Explain advanced DML trigger concepts.

This module covers the creation of in-memory tables and native stored procedures and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using in-memory tables.

Memory-Optimized Tables

Native Stored Procedures

Working with Memory Optimized Tables

Working with Natively Compiled Stored Procedures

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Design and implement memory-optimized tables.

Create native stored procedures.

This module explains how to use CLR integrated code to create user-defined database objects that are managed by the .NET Framework.

Introduction to SQL CLR Integration

Importing and Configuring Assemblies

Implementing SQL CLR Integration

Assessing Proposed CLR Code

Implementing a CLR Assembly

Implementing a CLR User-defined Aggregate and CLR User-defined Data Type

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain the importance of SQL Server CLR Integration.

Import and configure assemblies.

Implement objects that have been created within .NET assemblies.

This module introduces XML and shows how XML data can be stored within SQL Server and then queried, including queries written in a language called XQuery.

Introduction to XML and XML Schemas

Storing XML Data and Schemas in SQL Server

Implementing the XML Data Type

Using the T-SQL FOR XML Statement

Getting Started with XQuery

Shredding XML

Assessing appropriate Use of XML Data in SQL Server

Testing XML Data Storage in Variables

Retrieving Information about XML Schema Collections

Querying SQL Server Data as XML

Write a Stored Procedure Returning XML

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe XML and XML schemas.

Store XML data and associated XML schemas in SQL Server.

Implement the XML data type within SQL Server.

Use the T-SQL FOR XML Statement.

Work with basic XQuery queries.

Shred XML to a relational form.

This module introduces Spatial Data, and explains how to work with SQL Server Spatial Data Types.

Introduction to Spatial Data

Working with SQL Server Spatial Data Types

Using Spatial Data in Applications

Querying the Geometry Data Type

Adding Spatial Data to an Existing Table

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the importance of spatial data and the industry standards related to it.

Explain how to store spatial data in SQL Server.

Perform calculations on and query SQL Server spatial data.