Microsoft MCTS / MCITP Database Developer 2008

The course content has been updated to include the latest SQL Server 2008 R2 curriculum.

SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft's Data Platform vision by helping your organisation manage any data, any place, any time. Your data can be stored and accessed in your largest servers within the data centre all the way down to desktops and mobile devices, enabling you to have control over your data no matter where it is stored.

SQL Server 2008 delivers a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs.

During this Accelerated Learning course, students will learn how to implement tables and views, implement programmable objects, work with query fundamentals and apply additional query techniques. They will also learn how to work with additional SQL Server 2008 components. Students will also learn how to work with XML data and gather performance information. You will then focus on:

• Designing a Database Strategy
• Designing Database Tables
• Designing Programming Objects
• Designing a Transaction and Concurrency Strategy
• Designing an XML Strategy
• Designing Queries for Performance
• Designing a Database for Optimal Performance

Candidate Profile:

Candidates for this certification are professionals who work in an enterprise-level organisation and designing and develop SQL Server applications.

This program is aimed to teach you and to test you on the following Microsoft accreditations:

• MCTS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development
• MCITP: Database Developer 2008

This blended-learning program employs outcome-based (Lecture | Lab | Review) delivery - that focuses on preparing you with the real-world skills required to obtain your certification and to hit the ground running in your career. Our Trainers are among the most senior consultants in the industry, affording each Firebrand Training student the benefit of many years of real-world development expertise - while being able to effectively translate complex technical theory into easily understood terms.

Firebrand Training provides thorough instructor-led training to ensure that you learn the fundamentals and obtain hands-on skills. You will emerge able to immediately apply your new knowledge in your career environment.

Course Content

The latest SQL Server 2008 R2 curriculum is now included. Firebrand Training's accelerated MCITP Database Developer 2008 course will teach you how to:

• Create and alter tables.
• Create and alter views.
• Create and alter indexes.
• Create and modify constraints.
• Implement data types.
• Implement partitioning solutions.
• Create and alter stored procedures.
• Create and alter user-defined functions (UDFs).
• Create and alter DML triggers.
• Create and alter DDL triggers.
• Create and deploy CLR-based objects.
• Implement error handling.
• Manage transactions.
• Query data by using SELECT statements.
• Modify data by using INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.
• Return data by using the OUTPUT clause.
• Modify data by using MERGE statements.
• Implement aggregate queries.
• Combine datasets.
• Apply built-in scalar functions.
• Implement subqueries.
• Implement CTE (common table expression) queries.
• Apply ranking functions.
• Control execution plans.
• Integrate Database Mail.
• Implement full-text search.
• Implement scripts by using Windows PowerShell and SQL Server Management Objects (SMOs).
• Implement Service Broker solutions.
• Track data changes.
• Retrieve relational data as XML.
• Transform XML data into relational data.
• Query XML data.
• Manage XML data.
• Capture execution plans.
• Gather trace information by using Profiler
• Collect output from the Database Engine Tuning Advisor.
• Collect information from system metadata.
• Identify which SQL Server components to use to support business requirements.
• Design a database model.
• Design a data model by using the Entity Framework.
• Design an application strategy to support security.
• Design a solution by using Service Broker.
• Design a Full-Text Search strategy.
• Identify the appropriate usage of new data types.
• Design tables.
• Design data integrity.
• Design T-SQL stored procedures.
• Design views.
• Design T-SQL table-valued and scalar functions.
• Design Common Language Runtime (CLR) table-valued and scalar functions.
• Design CLR stored procedures, aggregates, and types.
• Evaluate special programming constructs.
• Design the locking granularity level.
• Design for implicit and explicit transactions.
• Design for concurrency.
• Design XML storage.
• Design a strategy to query and modify XML data.
• Design a query strategy by using FOR XML.
• Design a strategy to transform XML into relational data.
• Optimize and tune queries.
• Analyze execution plans.
• Evaluate the use of row-based operations vs. set-based operations.
• Optimize indexing strategies.
• Design scalable database solutions.
• Resolve performance problems by using plan guides.
• Design a table and index compression strategy.
• Design a table and index partitioning strategy.
• Review

You will be prepared for, and sit the following Microsoft exam:

• Exam 70-433: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development
• Exam 70-451: PRO: Designing Database Solutions and Data Access Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Students are required to meet the following prerequisites:

• At least one year of experience using SQL Server 2005 or higher in a live production environment
• An understanding of T-SQL
• Experience of database design

This course will prepare students for, and test them in the following Microsoft exams:

• Exam 70-433: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development
• Exam 70-451: PRO: Designing Database Solutions and Data Access Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008