Overview of SQL Server

Vu Tuyet Trinh
trinhvt-fit@mail.hut.edu.vn

Hanoi University of Technology

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Introduction to SQL Server

Client

SQL Server
Results
Results
Query
Query

OLTP
OLAP

Client Application

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Relational Database
Management System

SQL Server Goal

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Outline

Introduction to SQL Server

Relational Data Model
Exploring SQL Server Architecture

Programming Languages

Data Access Architectures

SQL Server Services & Tools
Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
CLR

SQL Server Editions

Evolution of SQL Server
Summary

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Relational Data Model

Entities

Attributes

Relationship

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Relational Database

Basic Concepts of a Relational Database

Entities

Tables

Attributes
Fields
Relations

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Basic concepts
Database ~ a collection
of tables.
Table ~ information about
a single entity
Primary key ~ (set of)
column(s) that uniquely
identifies a record.
Foreign key ~ (set of)
column(s) used to link table
together
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Database Design: Main Ideas

Objective

Ensuring data completeness

Avoiding data redundancies
Facilitating data access

Solution

Normalization

Referential Integrity

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Reducing redundancies and improving data modification

performance
Renormalizations is often done to enhance reporting performance (at
the expense of disk space and redundancy)
Maintains the logical relationships between database objects

Example

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Outline

Introduction to SQL Server

Relational Data Model
Exploring SQL Server Architecture

Data Access Architectures

SQL Server Services & Tools

SQL Server Editions

Evolution of SQL Server
Summary

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Data Access Architectures

Client / Server architecture

N-tier architecture

Data functionalities on server-side

Visual functionalities on client-side
Separating different layers based on data-related processing
such
Some layers: data storage, data access, business functionalities,
visualization (interface)

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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Client/Server Architecture
Client

SQL Server

Results
Results

OLTP
OLAP

Client Application

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Query
Query

Relational Database
Management System

N-tier Architecture

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Service-Oriented Architecture

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SQL Server Services

MSSQLServer
Service
SQLServerAgent
Service
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Transaction Coordinator

Data

Management
Transaction and Query
Processing
Data Integrity
Jobs
Alerts
Operators

Distributed

Transaction
Management

Server
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Full-Text

Catalogs
Full-Text Indexes

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Transact-SQL (T-SQL)

Implementation of Entry-Level ANSI ISO Standard

Composing of 3 categories
Data Definition Language Statements (DDL)

Data

Control Language Statements (DCL)

Data

Manipulation Language Statements (DML)

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CLR Integration

Lets you write your database queries using .NET

Any .NET language (C#, VB, C++)
Create and debug using Visual Studio IDE

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SQL Server Editions

Enterprise (Developer) Edition

Standard Edition

Workgroup Edition

SQL Server Express Edition

SQL Server Everywhere Edition

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Evolution of SQL Server

SQL Server
6.5
Data
warehousing
Internet
support
Differentiation
from Sybase
SQL Server

Cross-release
objective
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SQL Server
7.0
Re-architecture
of relational
server
First to include
OLAP in
database
Auto tuning
Ease-of-use

SQL Server
2000

SQL Server
2005

Reliability and
scalability
advancements
Deep XML
support
Data
warehousing
SQL Server CE
64 bit support

Enterprise-class
scalability
Programmability
advancements
End-to-end
business
intelligence
Manageability
Support for
multiple types of
data

Realibility & Security

Integrated Business Intelligence

SQL Server
2008
Secure trusted
platform for data
Productive
policy-based
management
Optimized and
predictable
system
performance
Dynamic
development
Beyond
relational data
Pervasive
Business Insight

Performance and Scalability

Automatic Tuning

Your Data Any Place, Any Time

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Summary

SQL Server ~ a database management system

Supporting relational data model

Supporting data services and tools for database administration

SQL Server ~ the core of a new generation data platform

Exploited in client/server, n-tier, service-orientes architectures

being extensible and flexible data stored

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extensible relational data

XML
unstructured data

Supporting .net

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