Performance Tuning and Optimizing SQL Databases

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This course provides students who manage and maintain SQL Server databases with the knowledge and skills to performance tune and optimize their databases. 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.

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Module 1: SQL Server Architecture, Scheduling, and Waits

• This module covers high level architectural overview of SQL Server and its various components. It dives deep into SQL Server execution model, waits and queues.

• Lessons

• 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

• This module covers core I/O concepts, Storage Area Networks and performance testing. It focuses on SQL Server I/O operations and how to test storage performance.

• Lessons

• Core Concepts

• Storage Solutions

• I/O Setup and Testing

• Lab : Testing Storage Performance Module 3: Database Structures

• This module covers Database Structures, Data File and TempDB Internals. It focuses on architectural concepts and best practices related to data files for user databases and TempDB.

• Lessons

• Database Structure Internals

• Data File Internals

• TempDB Internals

• Lab : Database Structures Module 4: SQL Server Memory

• This module covers Windows and SQL Server Memory internals. It focuses on architectural concepts and best practices related to SQL Server Memory Configuration.

• Lessons

• Windows Memory

• SQL Server Memory

• In-Memory OLTP

• Lab : SQL Server Memory Module 5: SQL Server Concurrency

• This module covers Transactions and Locking Internals. It focuses on architectural concepts and best practices related to Concurrency, Transactions, Isolation Levels and Locking.

• Lessons

• Concurrency and Transactions

• Locking Internals

• Lab : SQL Server Concurrency Module 6: Statistics and Index Internals

• This module covers Statistics and Index Internals. It focuses on architectural concepts and best practices related to Statistics and Indexes.

• Lessons

• Statistics Internals and Cardinality Estimation

• Index Internals

• Columnstore Indexes

• Lab : Statistics and index Internals Module 7: Query Execution and Query Plan Analysis

• This module covers Query Execution and Query Plan Analysis. It focuses on architectural concepts of the Optimizer and how to identify and fix query plan issues.

• Lessons

• Query execution and optimizer internals

• Query execution plans

• Analyzing query execution plans

• Adaptive query processing

• Lab : Query execution and query plan analysis Module 8: Plan Caching and Recompilation

• This module covers Plan Caching and Recompilation. It focuses on architectural concepts, troubleshooting scenarios and best practices related to Plan Cache.

• Lessons

• Plan cache internals

• Troubleshooting plan cache issues

• Automatic tuning

• Query store

• Lab : Plan caching and recompilation Module 9: Extended Events

• This module covers Extended Events. It focuses on architectural concepts, troubleshooting strategy and usage scenarios for Extended Events.

• Lessons

• Extended events core concepts

• Working with extended events

• Lab : Extended events Module 10: Monitoring, Tracing, and Baselining

• This module covers tools and techniques to monitor, trace and baseline SQL Server performance data. It focuses on data collection strategy and techniques to analyze collected data.

• Lessons

• Monitoring and tracing

• Baselining and benchmarking

• Lab : Monitoring, Tracing and Baselining