Scaling SQL Server 2012 - Part 1
Pluralsight
Course Summary
Learn how to identify and avoid practical architecture, design, and implementation issues that can limit the scalability of a SQL Server 2012 workload. This course is applicable to anyone who is responsible for improving the performance and scalability of a SQL Server workload, with most topics applicable to SQL Server 2005 onward.
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Course Description
When considering how to improve the scalability of a SQL Server workload, many people jump to the conclusion that scaling up or scaling out are the only answers. This course will show you that there are a huge number of things you can do to improve performance and scalability before you should even think of scale-up or scale-out. The bulk of the course describes architecture and design issues in both the application and the database that can affect scalability, along with demonstrations of some of the issues and detailed scripts to help you find the issues in the first place. The course ends with a section on common indexing problems that can drastically limit a workload's scalability, along with how to identify and fix them. Save your company a bunch of money by postponing the scaling decision through fixing your existing scalability bottlenecks, not ignoring them! This course is perfect for anyone who is responsible for improving the performance and scalability of a SQL Server workload, with most topics applicable to SQL Server 2005 onward.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction- 23m 31s
—Introduction 3m 14s
—Top Scalability Issues with SQL Server 2012 2m 35s
—Postponing the Scaling Decision 3m 47s
—Application Architecture and Design Issues 4m 38s
—Database Architecture and Design Issues 3m 10s
—Indexing Strategy and Maintenance 3m 35s
—Summary 1m 33s
—Course Structure 0m 55sTop Scalability Issues with SQL Server 2012- 10m 35s
—Introduction 2m 29s
—Largest SQL Server Implementations and Your Nightmare 2m 4s
—Top Scalability Issues with SQL Server 2012 1m 44s
—Handling Scalability Issues 2m 4s
—Summary 1m 19s
—What is Next? 0m 52sPostponing the Scaling Decision- 52m 46sApplication Architecture and Design- 43m 53sDatabase Architecture and Design- 54m 18sIndexing Strategy and Maintenance- 49m 53s