Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming & Tuning for SQL Server 2012 through 2019

Description:

Developed in-house by SolidQ, the Advanced T-SQL course focuses on writing and tuning queries and programming with T-SQL in SQL Server 2012 through 2019 and in Azure SQL Database.

Along the course you will learn how to use T-SQL to solve practical problems such as: Relational Division, Missing and Existing Ranges (Gaps and Islands), Separating Elements, Pivoting and Unpivoting, Ranking and Offset, Running Totals, Moving Averages, YTD, Custom Aggregations, TOP and OFFSET-FETCH Problems, Paging, Top N Per Group, Median, Data De-Duplication, Handling Sequences, Merging Data, Treatment of Temporal Intervals (Intersection, Max Concurrent, Packing), Dynamic Search Condition (aka Dynamic Filtering), Migrating On-Disk to Memory Optimized Data, and more.

You will learn how to tune your queries, how to develop efficient routines including user defined functions, stored procedures and triggers, work in multi-user environments with transactions and isolation levels, and use dynamic SQL securely and efficiently.

The course provides a dedicated module focusing on query tuning. The module covers internals and index tuning, including coverage of Columnstore data, index access methods, cardinality estimations, query store, temporary tables, set vs. cursors, and query tuning using query revisions. Moreover, query tuning is in the heart of this course and is incorporated in the different modules throughout the course.

With each querying/programming task the discussions will revolve around logical aspects, set-based vs. iterative/procedural programming and optimization of the solutions.

This course was developed by Itzik Ben-Gan, a mentor and one of the founders of SolidQ, author of award-winning books about T-SQL , a columnist in SQL Server Pro magazine, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 1999, and a regular speaker in SQL Server related events.

Who Should Attend

T-SQL Developers, DBAs, BI Specialists, Data Scientists, Architects, and Analysts
Those that need to write or review T-SQL code in SQL Server 2012 through 2019 and Azure SQL Database

Course Objectives

Understand logical query processing
Understand SQL Server’s internal data structures
Be able to analyze and tune query performance
Be able to analyze query execution plans
Describe the changes between the legacy and new cardinality estimators
Be able to solve complex querying and programming tasks
Think in terms of sets
Be able to compare set based and iterative solutions
Use window functions to improve your solutions
Handle date and time data including intervals
Create system-versioned temporal tables
Describe performance problems related to use of user defined functions and possible workarounds
Understand compilations, recompilations, plan caching and reuse
Understand transactions and concurrency aspects of database programming
Know how to handle hierarchical data and write recursive queries
Be able to migrate on-disk data to memory optimized data
Describe T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2012 through 2019