55315: Introduction to SQL Databases

Course Length: 3 Days

Delivered: Virtually

OVERVIEW:

This course is provided as an introductory class for anyone getting started with databases. It will be useful to programmers and other IT professionals whose job roles are expanding into database management. Students will learn fundamental database concepts through demonstrations and hands-on labs on a SQL Server instance. This material updates and replaces course Microsoft course 10985 which was previously published under the same title.

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

This is a foundation level course and therefore only requires general computer literacy.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

The primary audience for this course is people who are moving into a database role, or whose role has expanded to include database technologies. Developers that deliver content from SQL Server databases will also benefit from this material.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe key database concepts in the context of SQL Server
• Describe database languages used in SQL Server
• Describe data modelling techniques
• Describe normalization and denormalization techniques
• Describe relationship types and effects in database design
• Describe the effects of database design on performance
• Describe commonly used database objects

COURSE CONTENT:

Module 1: Introduction to databases

• Introduction to Relational Databases
• Other Databases and Storage
• Data Analysis
• SQL Server Database Languages

Module 2: Data Modeling

• Data Modelling
• Designing a Database
• Relationship Modeling

Module 3: Normalization

• Fundamentals of Normalization
• Normal Form
• Denormalization

Module 4: Relationships

• Introduction to Relationships
• Planning Referential Integrity

Module 5: Performance

• Indexing
• Query Performance
• Concurrency

Module 6: Database Objects

• Tables
• Views
• Stored Procedures, Triggers and Functions