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About This Course Course Overview This section provides you with a brief description of the course, audience, suggested prerequisites, and course objectives.. Description This workshop

About This Course

Course Overview

This section provides you with a brief description of the course, audience, suggested prerequisites, and course objectives

Description

This workshop teaches students to analyze business requirements to determine data storage and data access requirements Participants will learn to design data models and the data layer of a Microsoft® Windows® DNA architecture, and to select the appropriate Microsoft technologies

Audience

This course is intended for software developers with a general understanding of the software development life cycle These developers are creating data-centric applications, which require modeling of data storage and data access, including access to existing data It is also for database administrators, development leads, development managers, consultants, and technical and information architects who have less than six months experience on the job and who are integrating Microsoft technologies in a data-centric environment

Student Prerequisites

This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:

! A general understanding of the software development life cycle

! A general understanding of relational database management systems

! A general understanding of the process of gathering and analyzing business requirements

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

! Derive conceptual data requirements from business requirements

! Develop entity/relationship (ER) models

! Normalize a logical data model

! Create an optimized physical data model

! Select the appropriate type and location of data integrity rules to implement, given a set of constraints

! Select appropriate data access and data storage technologies for a solution

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Course Timing

The following schedule is an estimate of the course timing Your timing may vary

Day 1

Start End Module

9:00 9:30 Course Introduction 9:30 9:50 Module 1: Course Overview 9:50 10:20 Activity 1.1: Categorizing Existing Information 10:20 10:30 Break

10:30 10:50 Module 2: Solution Design Processes 10:50 11:20 Activity 2.1: Identifying Services 11:20 12:20 Lunch

12:20 1:00 Module 3: Using a Conceptual Design for Data Requirements 1:00 1:15 Activity 3.1: Identifying Data-Related Use Cases and Data

Requirements 1:15 1:30 Module 3 (continued)

1:30 1:45 Activity 3.2: Relating Data Requirements to Conceptual Design 1:45 2:00 Break

2:00 2:30 Module 4: Deriving a Logical Data Design 2:30 3:00 Activity 4.1 Deriving Entities and Attributes from Data

Requirements 3:00 4:00 Module 4 (continued)

Day 2

Start End Module

9:00 9:30 Day 1 review 9:30 9:50 Activity 4.2 Creating a Logical Data Model 9:50 10:00 Break

10:00 10:30 Module 5: Normalizing the Logical Data Design 10:30 10:50 Activity 5.1: Identifying Keys in the Logical Model 10:50 11:20 Module 5 (continued)

11:20 11:50 Activity 5.2: Normalizing Data 11:50 1:00 Lunch

1:00 1:45 Module 6: Deriving a Physical Data Design 1:45 2:15 Activity 6.1: Translating the Logical Data Design 2:15 2:30 Break

2:30 3:00 Module 6 (continued)

3:00 3:30 Activity 6.2: Optimizing a Physical Data Design

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Day 3

Start End Module

9:00 9:30 Day 2 review 9:30 9:50 Module 7: Implementing Data Integrity 9:50 10:20 Activity 7.1: Identifying Data Integrity Requirements 10:20 10:30 Break

10:30 11:00 Module 7 (continued)

11:00 11:30 Activity 7.2: Determining Data Integrity Implementations 11:30 12:15 Module 8: Designing Data Services

12:15 1:15 Lunch 1:15 1:45 Activity 8.1: Selecting Data Access Technologies 1:45 3:00 Module 9: Data Storage Considerations

3:00 3:10 Break 3:10 3:30 Activity 9.1: Data Quiz

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