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In this course, you will learn:
- Master the fundamentals of SQL Server 2019, the industry-leading database management platform from Microsoft
- Adam Wilbert equips beginners with the core skills they need to create and manage SQL Server databases.
- Adam begins with the basics, showing how to install SQL Server and log into a local database server.
- how to create new databases, design tables, define relationships, write queries, and use stored procedures and built-in functions.
- how to perform crucial database administration tasks, such as backups and restores, security enhancements, and performance monitoring.
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- Harness the modern and innovative tools in SQL Server 2019
- What you should know
1. Get Started
- Core concepts
- SQL Server 2019 editions
- Install SQL Server Developer Edition
- Install Management Studio
- Enable features with Configuration Manager
2. Log into the Server
- Management Studio first steps
- Authentication and user permissions
- Create a new user account
3. Create Databases
- Create the first database
- Database configuration options
- Table structures
- Create a simple table
- Edit a table's structure
- Enter data into a table using the GUI
- Import data from CSV files
- Create tables from flat files
- Install a sample database
4. Table Design for Healthy Databases
- Understand data types
- Table column properties
- Primary key fields
- Establish a default value
- Check constraints
- Unique constraints
- Foreign keys
- Create a foreign key column
- Create relationships between tables
5. Structured Query Language
- Understand the role of T-SQL
- Use the T-SQL editor
- Create a table with T-SQL
- Add data to a table
- Retrieve records with SELECT
- Filter returned results with WHERE
- Sort records
- Delete records from a table
- Update records in a table
- Join related tables
- LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN
- Remove a table from the database
6. Query Performance
- Create a view of the data
- Data table indexes
- Create additional indexes on a table
- Columnstore indexes
- View execution plans
- SQL Server's Query Store
- Rebuild indexes
7. Query Programmability
- Aggregate functions
- Use built-in functions
- Leverage user-defined scalar functions
- Introduction to stored procedures
- Create stored procedures
- Parameterized stored procedures
8. Backup and Restore
- Create a full backup of the database
- Create a differential backup
- Restore a backup
- Automate backups
- Business continuity solutions
9. Security
- User roles and permissions
- Database schemas
- Dynamic data masking
- Always On data encryption
10. Monitoring and Management
- Explore the role of system databases
- Prevent excessive tempdb autogrowth
- Review the SQL Server error log
- Dynamic management views
- Database Console Commands (DBCC)
