Scaling SQL Server 2012 - Part 1

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.

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.

• Introduction 23mins
• Top Scalability Issues with SQL Server 2012 10mins
• Postponing the Scaling Decision 52mins
• Application Architecture and Design 43mins
• Database Architecture and Design 54mins
• Indexing Strategy and Maintenance 49mins