10998: Updating Your Skills to SQL Server 2017 Training

Module Goal: Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server 2017

Overview of SQL Server 2017

Functionality across versions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the edition scale limits

Explain the consistent functionality across versions

This module introduces the performance enhancements provided by Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning, as well as the scalability and availability enhancements provided by new Availability Group architectures, including Read-Scale Availability Groups and Availability Groups with SQL Server on Linux

Adaptive query processing

Automatic tuning

Availability Scalability

Lab: Performance and availability – adaptive query processing

Interleaved execution

Batch mode memory grant feedback

Batch mode adaptive joins

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe adaptive query processing

Describe automatic plan correction

Describe availability group architectures

Describe always on availability groups for Linux

Describe load balancing of readable secondary replicas

Describe petabyte-scale data warehousing

SQL Server 2017 introduces SQL Graph which enables you to define the relationships between your data items in a table rather than calculating them during a query, reducing the query cost and simplifying your data structure.

SQL Graph

Lab: SQL Graph

Create a Graph database

Query a Graph database

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe SQL Graph

This module describes what's new in SQL Server reporting and BI.

Power BI report Server

Reporting Services update

Lab: Reporting and BI

Deploy Power BI report server

Add commenting to a report

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain what Power BI report server is

Use Power BI report server

Create a Power BI report foe Power BI report server

This module introduces new and enhanced features in SQL Server Analysis Services, with particular emphasis on the tabular data model.

Tabular model updates

Lab: Ragged hierarchies

View existing reports

Hide blank members

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the new features of tabular data models

This module introduces new and enhanced data analytics features.

New and enhanced data analytics features

Lab: Data analytics with Python

Enable external script execution

Run Python scripts

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the new and enhanced data analytics features.

Organizations want the best value from a mixture of cloud services and their existing investment in on-premises hardware and software. This module covers a comparison between the features of Microsoft Azure SQL Database and Microsoft SQL Server 2017, as well as new features that make it easier for you to migrate databases from on-premises SQL Server instances to Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL database features

Managed Instances

Lab: Managed instances

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the different features available in Azure SQL database and SQL Server 2017

Describe Azure managed instances

This module covers the features of SQL Server on Linux, as well as the process for deploying SQL Server on Linux and using Docker.

SQL Server on Linux

Deploying SQL Server on Linux

Lab: SQL Server in Docker containers

Deploy a SQL Server Docker image

Run a SQL Server instance inside a Docker container

Connect to a SQL Server Instance running in a Docker container

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the features of SQL Server on Linux

Describe SQL Server on Linux deployment

Deploy SQL server in a Docker container.