Description
Overview:
This course provides students who manage and maintain SQL Server databases with the knowledge and skills to performance tune and optimize their databases.
Prerequisite(s):
Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality; working knowledge of database administration and maintenance, and Transact-SQL.
Audience:
The primary audience for this course is individuals who administer and maintain SQL Server databases and are responsible for optimal performance of SQL Server instances that they manage. These individuals also write queries against data and need to ensure optimal execution performance of the workloads. The secondary audiences for this course are individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.
Outline:
Lesson 1: SQL Server Architecture, Scheduling, and Waits
- SQL Server Components and SQL OS
- Windows Scheduling vs SQL Scheduling
- Waits and Queues
Lesson 2: SQL Server I/O
- Core Concepts
- Storage Solutions
- I/O Setup and Testing
Lesson 3: Database Structures
- Database Structure Internals
- Data File Internals
- TempDB Internals
Lesson 4: SQL Server Memory
- Windows Memory
- SQL Server Memory
- In-Memory OLTP
Lesson 5: SQL Server Concurrency
- Concurrency and Transactions
- Locking Internals
Lesson 6: Statistics and Index Internals
- Statistics Internals and Cardinality Estimation
- Index Internals
- Columnstore Indexes
Lesson 7: Query Execution and Query Plan Analysis
- Query execution and optimizer internals
- Query execution plans
- Analyzing query execution plans
Lesson 8: Plan Caching and Recompilation
- Plan cache internals
- Troubleshooting plan cache issues
- Query store
Lesson 9: Extended Events
- Extended events core concepts
- Implementing extended events
Lesson 10: Monitoring, Tracing, and Baselining
- Monitoring and tracing
- Baselining and benchmarking
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