|
|
|
Designing Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 Server-Side Solutions
Course 2781: Three days; Instructor-Led
Introduction
This three-day instructor-led course
provides students with the knowledge and skills to design server-side solutions
for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The course focuses on teaching database
developers who work in enterprise environments to identify and place database
technologies during design to achieve a suitable solution that meets the needs
of an organization. Students will also learn to consider the solution from a
system-wide view instead of from a single database or server perspective.
Audience
This course is intended for current
professional database developers who have three or more years of on-the-job
experience developing SQL Server database solutions in an enterprise
environment.
Objectives
After attending this course,
students will be able to:
•
Select SQL Server services to
support an organization's business needs.
•
Design a security strategy for a SQL
Server 2005 solution.
•
Design a data modeling strategy.
•
Design a transaction strategy for a
SQL Server solution.
•
Design a Notification Services
solution.
•
Design a Service Broker solution.
•
Plan for source control, unit
testing, and deployment to meet an organization's needs.
•
Evaluate advanced query techniques.
•
Evaluate advanced XML techniques.
Before attending this course,
students must:
•
Have experience reading user
requirements and business-need documents. For example, development project
vision/mission statements or business analysis reports.
•
Understand Transact-SQL syntax and
programming logic.
•
Understand XML. Specifically, they
must be familiar with the syntax of XML, what elements and attributes are, and
how to distinguish them.
•
Understand security requirements.
Specifically, must understand how unauthorized users can gain access to
sensitive information and be able to plan strategies to prevent access.
•
Be able to design a database to 3NF
and know the tradeoffs when backing out of the fully normalized design (denormalization) and designing for performance and business
requirements in addition to being familiar with design models, such as Star and
Snowflake schemas.
•
Have basic monitoring and
troubleshooting skills.
•
Have 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.
•
Have 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.
•
Have some experience with a
reporting tool.
•
Be familiar with SQL Server 2005
features, tools, and technologies.
•
Have a Microsoft Certified
Technology Specialist: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 credential, or equivalent
experience.
Course Outline
Module 1: Selecting SQL Server
Services to Support Business Needs
This module provides an overview of
SQL Server 2005 architecture and the various considerations for choosing SQL
Server services to include in a solution. The module also describes
considerations for using the database enhancements in SQL Server 2005.
Module 2: Designing a Security
Strategy
This module describes the
considerations for designing a security strategy for the various components of
a SQL Server 2005 solution. This includes considerations for choosing
authentication and authorization strategy for a solution, as well as designing
security for the solution components such as Notification Services and Service
Broker. The module also teaches students the guidelines for designing objects
to manage application access. The module provides students with the required
knowledge to create an auditing strategy for a database solution. Finally, the
module teaches students how to manage security for multiple development teams.
Module 3: Designing a Data Modeling
Strategy
In this module, students learn the
various considerations and guidelines to define standards for storing XML data
in a solution. The module also provides the knowledge required to design a database
schema. The module provides information about the considerations for
implementing OLTP and OLAP functionality, considerations for determining
normalization levels, and considerations for creating indexes. Finally, the
module covers the various considerations for designing a scale-out strategy for
a solution.
Module 4: Designing a Transaction
Strategy for a SQL Server 2005 Solution
This module describes considerations
and guidelines for defining a transaction strategy for a solution. It also
shows how to define data behavior requirements and specify isolation levels for
data stores.
Module 5: Designing a Notification
Services Solution
This module describes the guidelines
and processes for designing a Notification Services solution as part of an
overall SQL Server 2005 solution. It shows how to define event data and how to
store this data, how to design a subscription strategy for a Notification
Services solution, how to design a notification strategy, and how to design a
notification delivery strategy.
Module 6: Designing a Service Broker
Solution
This module describes the guidelines
and processes for designing a Service Broker solution as part of an overall SQL
Server 2005 solution. It covers tasks such as designing the Service Broker
solution architecture, designing the Service Broker data flow, and designing
Service Broker solution availability.
Module 7: Planning for Source
Control, Unit Testing, and Deployment
This module teaches the guidelines
and considerations for planning for source control, unit testing, and
deployment, during the design of a SQL Server 2005 solution. Design tasks
covered include designing a source control strategy, designing a unit testing
plan, creating a performance baseline and benchmarking strategy, and designing
a deployment strategy.
Module 8: Evaluating Advanced Query
and XML Techniques
This module teaches students how to
evaluate queries using the advanced query and XML techniques, which students
might require when designing a SQL Server 2005 solution. Query tasks include
evaluating common table expressions, pivot queries, and ranking techniques. XML
tasks include defining standards for storing XML data, evaluating the use of XQuery, and creating a strategy for converting data between
XML and relational formats.