10998 Updating Your Skills to SQL Server 2017

Module 1: Introduction to SQL Server 2017Module
Goal: Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server 2017
Lessons

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

Module 2: What’s new in SQL Server Performance, Scalability, and Availability.
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
Lessons

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

Module 3: What’s New in SQL Server data Access
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.
Lessons

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

Module 4: What’s new in SQL Server Reporting and BI
This module describes what’s new in SQL Server reporting and BI.
Lessons

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

Module 5: New and Enhanced Features in SQL Server Analysis Services
This module introduces new and enhanced features in SQL Server Analysis Services, with particular emphasis on the tabular data model.
Lessons

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

Module 6: New and Enhanced data Analytics Features
This module introduces new and enhanced data analytics features.
Lessons

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.

Module 7: What’s new in SQL Server in the Cloud
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.
Lessons

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

Module 8: SQL Server on Linux
This module covers the features of SQL Server on Linux, as well as the process for deploying SQL Server on Linux and using Docker.
Lessons

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.