Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Course Description

In this course, you will be introduced to SQL Server 2012, logical table design, indexing, and query plans using the beta version of SQL Server 2012 pre-released software in the virtual machines for the labs. You will focus on creating database objects, including views, stored procedures, parameters, and functions. You will also learn procedure coding, such as transactions, concurrency, error handling, triggers, and SQL Common Language Runtime (CLR). Many of the labs are SQL Azure enabled.

Skills Gained

• SQL Server platform tools including editions, versions, basics of network listeners, and concepts of services and service accounts
• Appropriate data types used when designing tables, converting data between data types, and creating alias data types
• Design practices regarding SQL Server tables and create tables using T-SQL
• Implement PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, DEFAULT, CHECK, UNIQUE constraints, and investigate cascading FOREIGN KEY constraints
• Appropriate single column and composite index strategies
• Create table heaps, tables with clustered indexes, and table designs with appropriate structure
• Common elements from execution plans
• Design effective non-clustered indexes
• Design and implement views and stored procedures
• Work with table types and table-valued parameters
• Use MERGE to create stored procedures that update data warehouses
• Design and implement scalar and table-valued functions
• Investigate deadlock situation and how transaction isolation levels affect application concurrency
• T-SQL error handling code and structured exception handling
• Design and implement data manipulation language (DML) triggers
• SQL CLR integration and implement existing .NET assembly within SQL Server
• Store Extensible Markup Language (XML) data and schemas in SQL Server and basic queries on XML data in SQL Server
• Work with GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY data types
• Implement and query a full-text index

Who Can Benefit

IT professionals who want to become skilled on SQL Server 2012 product features and technologies for implementing a database

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of writing T-SQL queries
• Knowledge of basic relationship database concepts

Syllabus

1. SQL Server 2012 and Toolset

• SQL Server Platform
• Working with SQL Server Tools
• Configuring SQL Server Services

2. Working Data Types

• Using Data Types
• Converting Data Types
• Specialized Data Types

3. Designing and Implementing Tables

• Designing Tables
• Working with Schemas
• Creating and Altering Tables

4. Ensuring Data Integrity through Constraints

• Enforcing Data Integrity
• Implementing Domain Integrity
• Implementing Entity and Referential Integrity

5. Planning for SQL Server 2012 Indexing

• Core Indexing Concepts
• Data Types and Indexes
• Single Column and Composite Indexes

6. Implementing Table Structures in SQL Server 2012

• SQL Server Table Structures
• Working with Clustered Indexes
• Designing Effective Clustered Indexes

7. Reading SQL Server 2012 Execution Plans

• Execution Plan Core Concepts
• Common Execution Plan Elements
• Working with Execution Plans

8. Improving Performance through Non-Clustered Indexes

• Designing Effective Non-Clustered Indexes
• Implementing Non-Clustered Indexes
• Using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor

9. Designing and Implementing Views

• Views
• Creating and Managing Views
• Performance Considerations for Views

10. Designing and Implementing Stored Procedures

• Stored Procedures
• Working with Stored Procedures
• Implementing Parameterized Stored Procedures
• Controlling Execution Context

11. Merging Data and Passing Tables

• Using the MERGE Statement
• Implementing Table Types
• Using TABLE Types as Parameters

12. Designing and Implementing User-Defined Functions

• Functions
• Designing and Implementing Scalar Functions
• Designing and Implementing Table-Valued Functions
• Implementation Considerations for Functions
• Alternatives to Functions

13. Creating Highly Concurrent SQL Server 2012 Applications

• Transactions
• Locks
• Management of Locking
• Transaction Isolation Levels

14. Handling Errors in T-SQL Code

• T-SQL Error Handling
• Implementing T-SQL Error Handling
• Implementing Structured Exception Handling

15. Responding to Data Manipulation via Triggers

• Designing DML Triggers
• Implementing DML Triggers
• Advanced Trigger Concepts

16. Implementing Managed Code in SQL Server 2012

• SQL CLR Integration
• Importing and Configuring Assemblies
• Implementing SQL CLR Integration

17. Storing XML Data in SQL Server 2012

• XML and XML Schemas
• Storing XML Data and Schemas in SQL Server
• Implementing the XML Data Type

18. Querying XML Data in SQL Server

• Using the T-SQL for XML Statement
• Starting with XQuery
• Shredding XML

19. Working with SQL Server 2012 Spatial Data

• Spatial Data
• Working with SQL Server Spatial Data Types
• Using Spatial Data in Applications

20. Working with Full-Text Indexes and Queries

• Implementing a Full-Text Index
• Implementing a Stoplist
• Creating a Stored Procedure to Implement a Full-Text Search