Examen 70-454: Upgrade: Transition Your MCITP SQL Server 2005 DBD to MCITP SQL Server 2008 DBD

Microsoft

Indien u reeds SQL 2005 DBD bent gecertificeerd en u het upgrade examen 70-454 succesvol afrondt, beschikt u over de MCITP certificering Database Developer 2008.

Doelgroep

Candidates for this exam are IT Professionals or Developers who have a minimum of one year of experience in a position in which their main area of responsibility is database development by using SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008. Alternatively, they work in an environment in which databases are directly related to their primary job roles. These candidates have sought out knowledge of and experience using SQL Server 2008 to enhance their technical expertise, and they would like to take the exam to be able to demonstrate this technical expertise. Candidates should also be proficient at creating and managing database objects by using SQL Server T-SQL.

Categorie

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Tarief

€ 160,00 *
Exclusief € 28,00 reserverings- en servicekosten indien u wel bij ons uw examen boekt, maar niet de bijbehorende training bij ons volgt.

Certificering / traject

Microsoft MCITP certificering

Inschrijven

Inschrijven voor examen 70-454 doet u via het online examenformulier.

Implementing Tables and Views

Create and alter tables. This objective may include but is not limited to: computed and persisted columns; schemas; scripts to deploy changes to multiple environments, for example, dev, test, production; manage permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE).
Create and alter indexes. This objective may include but is not limited to: filtered, included columns, unique, clustered, non-clustered, FILL FACTOR; CREATE STATISTICS; indexing views.
Implement data types. This objective may include but is not limited to: FILESTREAM; spatial, structured, and semi-structured; collations.

Implementing Programming Objects

Create and alter stored procedures. This objective may include but is not limited to: table-valued parameters (TVP), EXECUTE AS, RECOMPILE, parameter direction (output); WITH ENCRYPTION; manage permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE).
Create and alter user-defined functions (UDFs). This objective may include but is not limited to: WITH SCHEMABINDING, EXECUTE AS; manage permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE).
Manage transactions. This objective may include but is not limited to: BEGIN TRANSACTION, COMMIT, ROLLBACK, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL.

Working with Query Fundamentals

Query data by using SELECT statements. This objective may include but is not limited to: LIKE, WHERE, ORDER BY, INTO.
Modify data by using INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. This objective may include but is not limited to: row constructors, DELETE FROM FROM, UPDATE FROM, TRUNCATE TABLE.
Implement aggregate queries. This objective may include but is not limited to: built-in aggregate functions, GROUPING SETS, GROUP BY, HAVING.
Combine datasets. This objective may include but is not limited to: CROSS APPLY, OUTER APPLY, all join types; UNION, UNION ALL, INTERSECT, EXCEPT.

Applying Additional Query Techniques

Implement subqueries. This objective may include but is not limited to: simple, correlated, scalar, list, table valued.
Implement CTE (common table expression) queries. This objective may include but is not limited to: recursive, non-recursive.
Apply ranking functions. This objective may include but is not limited to: RANK, PARTITION BY, DENSE_RANK, OVER, ROW_NUMBER, NTILE.

Working with Additional SQL Server Components

Implement full-text search. This objective may include but is not limited to: CONTAINS, CONTAINSTABLE, FREETEXT, FREETEXTTABLE, STOPLIST.
Implement scripts by using Windows PowerShell and SQL Server Management Objects (SMOs). This objective may include but is not limited to: cmdlets.
Implement Service Broker solutions. This objective may include but is not limited to: services, queues, messages, message types, message validation, contracts, activation procedures.

Working with XML Data

Retrieve relational data as XML. This objective may include but is not limited to: FOR XML.
Transform XML data into relational data. This objective may include but is not limited to: OPENXML, sp_xml_preparedocument, sp_xml_removedocument.
Query XML data. This objective may include but is not limited to: XQUERY, XPATH.

Gathering Performance Information

Capture execution plans. This objective may include but is not limited to: graphical execution plans; SHOWPLAN.
Gather trace information by using the SQL Server Profiler.

Designing a Database Strategy

Identify which SQL Server components to use to support business requirements. This objective may include but is not limited to: SQL Server Agent, DB mail, Service Broker, Full-Text Search, Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC), linked servers.
Design a database model. This objective may include but is not limited to: normalization, entities, entity relationships.
Design an application strategy to support security. This objective may include but is not limited to: application roles, schema ownership, execution context, Windows vs. SQL authentication, permissions and database roles.

Designing Database Tables

Idenify the appropriate usage of new data types. This objective may include but is not limited to: geography, geometry, hierarchyid, date, time, datetime2, datetimeoffset, varbinary (max) filestream.
Design tables. This objective may include but is not limited to: table width, sizing data types, IN_ROW_DATA (BLOBs), overflow data, sparse columns, computed columns, persisted computed columns.
Design data integrity. This objective may include but is not limited to: primary key, foreign key, check constraint, default constraint, NULL/NOT NULL, unique constraint, DML triggers.

Designing Programming Objects

Design T-SQL stored procedures. This objective may include but is not limited to: execution context (EXECUTE AS), table-valued parameters, determining appropriate way to return data, WITH RECOMPILE/OPTION (RECOMPILE), error handling, TRY/CATCH.
Design T-SQL table-valued and scalar functions. This objective may include but is not limited to: inline table-valued functions vs. views, multi-statement table-valued functions, determinism.
Evaluate special programming constructs. This objective may include but is not limited to: dynamic vs. prepared SQL (CREATE PROCEDURE… WITH EXECUTE AS) procedure, protecting against SQL injection.

Designing a Transaction and Concurrency Strategy

Design the locking granularity level. This objective may include but is not limited to: locking hints, memory consumption.
Design for concurrency. This objective may include but is not limited to: hints, transaction isolation level, effect of database option READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT, rowversion and timestamp datatypes.

Designing an XML Strategy

Design XML storage. This objective may include but is not limited to: determining when to use XML for storage, untyped vs. typed (XML schema collection).
Design a strategy to transform XML into relational data. This objective may include but is not limited to: .nodes, .value, .query, XQuery and XPath.

Designing Queries for Performance

Optimize and tune queries. This objective may include but is not limited to: optimizer hints, common table expressions (CTEs), search conditions, temporary storage, GROUP BY [GROUPING SETS|CUBE|ROLLUP].
Analyze execution plans. This objective may include but is not limited to: execution order, logical and physical operators, join operators, minimize resource costs, compare query costs.

Designing a Database for Optimal Performance

Optimize indexing strategies. This objective may include but is not limited to: table-valued function, views, filtered indexes, indexed views, clustered and non-clustered, unique.
Design a table and index compression strategy. This objective may include but is not limited to: row vs. page, update frequency, page compression implementation, compressing individual partitions.
Design a table and index partitioning strategy. This objective may include but is not limited to: switching partitions, merging, splitting, staging, creating, schemes and functions.

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