SQL Server 2008 for Developers

UTS Short Course

Peter Gfader

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Course Website

http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Training/UTSSQL/Pages/

Course Timetable Course Materials

Course Overview
Session Date 1 Time 18:00 - 21:00 Topic SQL Server 2008 Management Studio

Tuesday 03-08-2010
Tuesday 10-08-2010

18:00 - 21:00

T-SQL Enhancements

3
4

Tuesday 17-08-2010
Tuesday 24-08-2010 Tuesday 31-08-2010

18:00 21:00
18:00 - 21:00

High Availability
CLR Integration

18:00 - 21:00

Full-Text Search

What we did last week

Basic T-SQL syntax New Data Types Inline variable assignment

Table Value Parameters

DDL (Data Definition Language) Triggers CTE (Common Table Expressions) TOP % WITH TIES

XML Queries
PIVOT/UNPIVOT

Homework?

CREATE DATABASE SSW_Training GO USE SSW_Training GO

CREATE LOGIN LOG_USER WITH PASSWORD=N'LOG_u$er_01', DEFAULT_DATABASE=SSW_Training GO CREATE USER LOG_USER FOR LOGIN LOG_USER GO
EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datareader', N'LOG_USER' GO EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datawriter', N'LOG_USER' GO

CREATE TABLE [ServerLogins]( ID bigint IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL , [DateTime] datetime , PostTime nvarchar(100) , LoginName nvarchar(100) , EventType nvarchar(100) , ClientHost nvarchar(100) , [EVENTDATA] xml ) ON [PRIMARY] GO

CREATE TRIGGER logon_trigger_login_log ON ALL SERVER WITH EXECUTE AS 'LOG_USER' FOR LOGON AS DECLARE @data xml SET @data = EventData() INSERT INTO SSW_Training.dbo.ServerLogins([DateTime], PostTime, LoginName, EventType, ClientHost, [EventData]) VALUES ( GETDATE() , CONVERT(nvarchar(100), @data.query('data(//PostTime)')) , CONVERT(nvarchar(100), @data.query('data(//LoginName)')) , CONVERT(nvarchar(100), @data.query('data(//EventType)')) , CONVERT(nvarchar(2000), @data.query('data(//ClientHost)')) , EVENTDATA() ) GO

Homework?
SELECT geometry::STGeomFromText('LINESTRING (0 0, 0 2, 1 3, 2 2, 2 0, 0 2, 2 2, 0 0, 2 0)', 0) Envelope;

Session 3

SQL 2008 High Availability Features

Agenda

What is High Availability? What can go wrong? What can we do about it?

What is high availability?

Different people have different definitions

Perceived uptime Performance

What can go wrong? How can we improve it?

What is high availability?

Different people have different definitions

Perceived uptime Performance Issues

What can go wrong? How can we improve it?

What can go wrong? (continued)

Hardware

Disk failure Network failure Power Outages

What can go wrong?

Software

Virus (and Virus Scanners) File locking issues Disk space Corrupted files Bad upgrades OS Upgrades poor tuning or design DB Maintenance

SQL

What else can go wrong?

People (PEBKAC)

Administrators Users Bottlenecks & Concurrency

Acts of God

Lightning Cleaners

What can we do about it? (continued 3-1)

1. Hardware Solutions
UPS & Hardware Monitors RAID / Mirroring Off site server Firewall Physical Security

What can we do about it? (continued 3-2)

2. Software Solutions
Database Mirroring Log shipping

Auto backup transaction log, and restore

Monitor, Change

Replication (Can also reduce availability) Database Snapshots Alerts

OS: Disk Space, ... DB: Logs,...

Partitioned Tables Firewalls

What can we do about it? (3-3)

3. OS Level / Backup Solutions

Security Change Management Performance Monitoring/Tuning Hot/Warm/Cold standby servers Standard daily backups
Verified procedure Transaction logs

What Will We Cover?

Implementing Database Snapshots Configuring a Database Mirror

Partitioned Tables
SQL Agent Proxies Performing Online Index Operations

Mirrored Backups

Database Snapshots

Database Snapshots

Mirroring for reporting

Point-in-time reporting

Recover from administrative error

Protection from application or user error

Database Snapshots

Snapshots are NOT a substitute for your backup and recovery setup

You cannot roll forward

If either the database or the database snapshot is corrupted, reverting from a snapshot is unlikely to correct the problem

Query from snapshot current database

Database Snapshots

CREATE DATABASE AdventureWorks_dbss1800 ON ( NAME = AdventureWorks2008_Data, FILENAME = 'C:\data\AdventureWorks_data_1800.ss' ) AS SNAPSHOT OF AdventureWorks; GO

Database Snapshots

Snapshot vs. Backup vs. Detach

Snapshot Only go back SELECT statements Backup Rollback and Forward possible Smaller Detach database and copy DB goes offline Closes all connections

Database mirror

Configuring a Database Mirror

No special hardware

Configuring a Database Mirror

Easy to setup Transparent client redirect Zero committed work lost Maximum one mirror per DB

Configuring a Database Mirror

Virtually no distance limitations

No special hardware

Configuring a Database Mirror

Principal Server

Clients

Witness Server

Mirror Server

Configuring a Database Mirror

Mirror Server

Clients

Witness Server

Principal Server

Configuring a Database Mirror

Mirror Server

Clients

Witness Server

Principal Server

Before you mirror your database

1.

Principal
1. 2.

Take a full backup and a log backup as well Copy the full/log backups from Principal Instance to Mirror instance

2.

Mirror
1. 2.

Restore with NORECOVERY option the full backup Apply the log backup

Using the Mirror Wizard

Configure End Point on the Principal

Configure End Point on the Mirror

Set the service accounts

Use NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Mirror is configured

Warning about FQDN

Mirror Operating Modes

High Performance (asynchronous)

Commits are done on the principal and transferred to the mirror

High Safety (synchronous)

Commits are written to both databases

Database Mirroring Failover

What happens when something bad happens to our principal server You can make it failover to the mirror

This means that the two servers swap roles for the time being

Database Mirroring Monitor

Lets you view the status and history of your current mirrors

Thresholds

Might come in handy

Disable Mirroring ALTER DATABASE myDatabase SET PARTNER OFF

Put DB from "Recovering..." into available online mode RESTORE DATABASE myDatabase WITH RECOVERY

Partitioned tables

Partitioned Tables

Partitioned Tables

Allows for maximum concurrency Partitioned Table parallelism

Improved a lot in SQL 2008

Archive older data into different filegroups

SQL Server agent

SQL Server Agent (recap)

Windows Service Executes SQL Server jobs

Administrative tasks

SQL Agent Proxies

New credential system Sits on Active Directory

Fine grained control of your jobs

Jobs can be run by proxies instead of user logins Previously to run cmd shell type functionality you needed a user in the administrator group which opened up security problems

Online Index Operations

Online Index Operations

Index Created Table - Table is accessible for read and update

- Non-clustered indexes are available during clustered index creation

CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX IX_TextTable_MyKey ON [TestTable] ([MyKey])

WITH (ONLINE = ON);

GO

Mirrored Backups

Mirrored Backup media

Backup

Mirror 2

Mirrored Backup media

Mirror 1

Mirror 2

Mirrored Backup media

Mirror 1

Mirror 2

Session Summary

Implementing Database Snapshots Configuring a Database Mirror

Partitioned Tables
SQL Agent Proxies Performing Online Index Operations

Mirrored Backups

Session 3 Lab

High Availability Features

Database snapshots Mirrored backups Online Index Operations

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Where Else Can I Get Help?

Free chats and webcasts List of newsgroups

Microsoft community sites

Community events and columns SQL Server user groups (www.sqlserver.org.au)

www.microsoft.com/technet/community

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