Audience profile

• 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.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.
• Working knowledge of database administration and maintenance
• Working knowledge of Transact-SQL.

Course outline

Module 1: SQL Server Architecture, Scheduling, and Waits

• SQL Server Components and SQL OS
• Windows Scheduling vs SQL Scheduling
• Waits and Queues

Lab : SQL Server Architecture, Scheduling, and Waits

Module 2: SQL Server I/O

• Core Concepts
• Storage Solutions
• I/O Setup and Testing
• Lab : Testing Storage Performance

Module 3: Database Structures

• Database Structure Internals
• Data File Internals
• TempDB Internals
• Lab : Database Structures

Module 4: SQL Server Memory

• Windows Memory
• SQL Server Memory
• In-Memory OLTP
• Lab : SQL Server Memory

Module 5: Concurrency and Transactions

• Concurrency and Transactions
• Locking Internals
• Lab : Concurrency and Transactions

Module 6: Statistics and Index Internals

• Statistics Internals and Cardinality Estimation
• Index Internals
• Columnstore Indexes
• Lab : Statistics and index Internals

Module 7: Query Execution and Query Plan Analysis

• Query execution and optimizer internals
• Analyzing query plans
• Lab : Query execution and query plan analysis

Module 8: Plan Caching and Recompilation

• Plan cache internals
• Troubleshooting plan cache issues
• Query store
• Lab : Plan caching and recompilation

Module 9: Extended Events

• Extended events core concepts
• Implementing extended events
• Lab : Extended events

Module 10: Monitoring, Tracing, and Baselining

• Monitoring and tracing
• Baselining and benchmarking
• Lab : Monitoring, Tracing and Baselining