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Introducing SQL Server
A Relational DBMS
A Powerful Client/Server DBMS
Utilities range from:
 Simple Database Creation/Maintenance
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 Datawarehousing, OLAP Services, support for
XML Applications ..
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What to Install:
SQL Server 2000 Versions:
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Many Versions – Varying in terms of:
 Hardware Requirement
 Capabilities
 Cost
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The most used ones:
 Enterprise Edition: Large and Powerful Databases
 Developer Edition: Same as ‘Enterprise’ except, not
licensed for ‘Production’
 Standard Edition: Ideal for Medium Needs
 Personal Edition: For personal use – Does not allow
external connection
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SQL Server Services
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DTC - Distributed Transaction Coordinator
 Handling Distributed Transactions
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Microsoft Search
 Text Search - Indexing
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SQL Server Engine
 The Core
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SQL Agent
 Auxiliary Operator - Alerts, Jobs
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Interacting with SQL Server:
Basic Tools
Server Manager
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Managing (Stopping/Running) the services
Enterprise Manager
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Database Creation/Maintenance
DTS – Data Transformations Services
Management
Replication
Security
Support Services
MetaData Services
Query Analyzer
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Command-Line Interface
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Security Issues
Windows/SQL ‘Identification-Authentication’
Server Roles
Database Roles:
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Fixed ones
User Defined ones
Creating a user account
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Setting its ‘permissions’ (Authentication)
Adhering a user to a Role
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Physical & Logical Aspects of a
SQL Server DB
Logical a set of components:
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Diagrams, tables, views, stored procedures, users,
roles, rules, defaults, user-defined data types.
Physical – 2 basic types of files:
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Data Files
 Primary (.mdf)
 Secondary (.ndf)
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Log Files
 (.ldf)
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System Databases
Master
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Storing all system information, i.e. all other
databases’ file locations, system configuration,
logins, roles …
Model
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Serves as a template
Tempdb
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String temporary data
Msdb
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Basically used by the SQL Agent for Jobs/Alerts
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Query Analyzer – Basic SQL
Commands
Create Database
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System – User Databases
Create Table
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Available Data Types
Select
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Functions, Group by, Having, nested selects
Insert / Update /Delete
Create View
Creating Rules / Defaults
Create Procedure
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System/user Stored Procedures
Creating a User-defined data type – ‘sp_addtype’
Binding Rule / Defaults – ‘sp_bindrule/bindefault’
Create Trigger
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After / For / Instead of
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Accessing a Database using
ADO/ASP.NET
.NET in a Nutshell:
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A framework for the .NET Platform
2 main components:
 CLR – Common Language Runtime:
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Cross-Language Integration
Support for a large set of Programming languages:
 C#, VB.Net, Cobol, Eiffel, Perl ….
 .NET Libraries:
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ASP.NET Libraries
ADO.NET Libraries
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Understanding ASP/ADO.NET
A Typical Scenario:
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A user sends a request to an ‘xxx.com’ server to read his
emails
User receives as a response an ‘aspx’ file
User fills ‘username/password’ and submits
Web Server reads the submitted data using ASP.NET
Web Server establishes a DB connection with a DB Server
holding right ‘usernames/passwords’ using ADO.NET
Once connection established, a ‘Select’ statement is sent to
be executed against the DB server using ADO.NET
Server receives the ‘answer’ and using ASP.NET implements
a kind of:
 If ‘user/password’ correct then give access
 Else Redirect user to the Login Page
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ASP.NET
New ASP Generation - ‘.aspx’ Vs. ‘.asp’
ASP.NET Types
Code Behind
Separating ‘Server-Side’ code from HTML
C#, VB.NET, Perl, Python ….
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Web Forms
Sever Controls …
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ADO.NET
Interacting with DBs
Support for multiple Databases
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SQL Server, Oracle, FoxPro, Access …
Basic Classes:
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Connection
Command
DataReader
DataSet
DataAdapter
DataGrid
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Establishing a Connection
Classes for Different Drives:
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SqlConnection
OleDbConnection
OracleConnection
OdbcConnection
For our case SqlConnection
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ConnectionString
.Open( ) & .Close( )
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Executing a Command
SqlCommand
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.CommandText
.Connection
.ExecuteNonQuery( )
.ExecuteQuery( )
.ExecuteReader( )
Other Commands classes
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Getting Results -SqlDataReader
Forward-Only
For Quick Iteration/Checks against the
DB
User with Command.ExecuteReader()
.Read( )
.GetValue(int index)
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Working in a ‘ConnectionLess’
mode - DataSet
Behaves as a Local Database
Optimal – Minimize roun-trips to the DB
Server
Can contain many tables
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DataTable, DataRow, DataColumn
Implementing Relationships
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DataRelation
Migrating Updates to the DB Server
You need a DataAdapter
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DataAdapter
Bridge between the DB and the DataSet
Populating DataSets
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.Fill( )
.SelectCommand
Migrating DataSets’ upadtes:
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.Update( )
UpdateCommand, DeleteCommand,
InsetCommand,
Automatic: CommandBuilder
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DataGrids Displaying Data in
a ‘Fashionable’ way
Setting the outlook
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Built-in Styles
Attaching a DataGrid to a specific Table
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.DataSource( )
Getting Data
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.DataBind( )
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