SQL Server 2008 for Developers
UTS Short Course
Course Website
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Course Timetable & Materials
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http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Events/2010UTSSQL/
Resources
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http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Training/UTSSQL/
Course Overview
Session Date
Time
Topic
1
Tuesday
06-03-2012
18:00 - 21:00
SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
2
Tuesday
13-03-2012
18:00 - 21:00
T-SQL Enhancements
3
Tuesday
20-03-2012
18:00 - 21:00
High Availability
4
Tuesday
27-03-2012
18:00 - 21:00
CLR Integration
5
Tuesday
03-04-2012
18:00 - 21:00
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What we did last week
High availability
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What can go wrong? What can we do?
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Implementing Database Snapshots
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Configuring a Database Mirror
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Partitioned Tables
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SQL Agent Proxies
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Performing Online Index Operations
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Mirrored Backups
SQL CLR Integration
Agenda - CLR Integration
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What is .NET?
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What is CLR Integration?
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Requirements on SQL box
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Samples
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Internals
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CLR Integration: Pros
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CLR Integration: Cons
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Real world - When to use CLR Integration
What is .NET?
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An application development platform from Microsoft
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Tools, Languages, Runtime (Virtual machine), IDE, …
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Rapidly develop secure and robust software
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Web and Windows
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Full support for object-oriented programming
.NET Overview
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IL = Intermediate
Language
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CLR = Runtime
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CLR
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Common
Language
Runtime
= Virtual machine
.NET Framework
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Evolution
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The whole .NET FX
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http://shrinkster.com/1515
(PDF Poster)
What is CLR Integration?
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Lets you write your database queries using .NET
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Create and debug using VS 2008 IDE
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Brand new in SQL 2005 (Standard and Express)
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Support for large UDT (User defined types) in SQL 2008 (up to 2GB)
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Support for multiple inputs on UDA (User defined aggregators)
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e.g. string concatenator that takes in a column and separator char
Any .NET language (C#, VB, C++)
SQL CLR Project
CLR Integration
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You can do the same thing as SQL Server using .NET code
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Stored Procedures
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Triggers
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User-defined functions
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User-defined types
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Aggregate functions
Server - Enabling CLR Integration
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Enabled on an instance (not per database)
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SQL Script
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Execute sp_configure ‘clr enabled’, ‘1’
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reconfigure
Stored Procedures
Sample
public partial class StoredProcedures
{
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlProcedure]
public static void HelloWorld()
{
// Put your code here
using (SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection("Context Connection=true"))
{
cn.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM DEMO", cn);
SqlContext.Pipe.Send(cmd.ExecuteReader());
}
}
What you do
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Enable CLR
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Create a new database project in Visual Studio
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Create a new stored procedure in Visual Studio
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Connect to current context using “Context Connection=true”
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Add a simple SELECT statement
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Deploy and run it
Internals
Assembly collated as set of files
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Stored within SQL Server system tables
Assembly, references, program database (pdb), source files
Deployed to SQL Server
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Manually
• Catalogued with CREATE ASSEMBLY
• Dropped with DROP ASSEMBLY
Automatically
• Deployed from VS 2008
Security Levels
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Safe (default)
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Access only to CLR code. No access is allowed to external
resources, thread management, unsafe code or interop.
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External_Access
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Access is allowed to external systems, such as the
EventLog, File System, and network. Still no access to
unsafe code or interop code.
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Unsafe
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Access is not limited whatsoever. User-defined types
Custom CLR Functions
Sample
public partial class UserDefinedFunctions
{
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction]
public static bool IsValidPostCode(string postcode)
{
return System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(
postcode, ^(((2|8|9)\d{2})|((02|08|09)\d{2})|([1-9]\d{3}))$");
}
};
What you do
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Create IsValidPostCode in C# (.NET)
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Deploy it to SQL Server
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Run it
Stored procedure vs. Function
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What is the difference?
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Function
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Base functionality
Independent of Database itself
Stored procedure
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Many operations at once
Normally database specific
Triggers
Sample
public partial class Triggers
{
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlTrigger(Name = "EmailTrigger", Target = "Customers", Event = "FOR UPDATE")]
public static void SalaryFraudTrigger()
{
SqlTriggerContext context = SqlContext.TriggerContext;
using (SqlConnectioncnn = new SqlConnection("context connection=true"))
{
cnn.Open();
SqlCommand command = cnn.CreateCommand();
command.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM inserted";
SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();
while (reader.Read())
{
for (intcolumnNumber = 0; columnNumber<context.ColumnCount; columnNumber++)
{
SqlContext.Pipe.Send(string.Format("Col: {0} = {1}", columnNumber,
reader[columnNumber].ToString()));
}
};
reader.Close();
}
}
}
What you do
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Create EmailTrigger in C# (.NET)
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Deploy it to SQL Server
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Test it
CLR Integration: Pros
(Continued)
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Take advantage of the powerful .NET Framework
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.NET is a full-featured programming language
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Supports things like “for each” loops, arrays, collections
Object Oriented programming model to organise your
queries
Obtaining data from external resources
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The File System
The Event Log
A Web Service
The Registry
CLR Integration: Pros
For complex calculations
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Parsing strings (like the regular expression code)
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User-defined types
• Date, time, currency, and extended numeric types
• Geospatial applications
• Encoded or encrypted data (see books online)
User-defined aggregates
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Powerful Intellisense and debugging
Generally faster
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E.g. CLR aggregate 100x faster than cursor
CLR Integration: Cons
(Continued)
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NON MAINSTREAM
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Lots of programming for simple operations
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Some overhead in communicating with assemblies
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Remember – T-SQL is designed and optimised for data, use it!
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Not useful if your guys do not know any .NET
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Potentially costly to rewrite logic
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Companies (including us) have invested a lot in T-SQL
CLR Integration: Cons
There are some restrictions to observe when calling
between T-SQL and SQL-CLR.
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You must only use T-SQL supported data types (No
streams)
You can't use inheritance or polymorphism
.NET cannot easily represent either VARCHAR or
TIMESTAMP
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.NET strings are Unicode, the equivalent of NVARCHAR
The CLR decimal type is not the same as SQL_DECIMAL
When to use CLR Integration
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Do I need to manipulate data before it is displayed?
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Do I need to do set-based operations such as pivoting?
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.NET code and SQLCLR
Are my developers SQL gurus but .NET newbies?
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T-SQL
Do I need to do extensive computation or custom algorithms?
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.NET code and SQLCLR
T-SQL
Do I have loads of stored procs that are becoming hard to manage?
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.NET code and SQLCLR
CLR Integration
The Bottom Line
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Use T-SQL for all data
operations
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Use CLR assemblies for any
complex calculations and
transformations
Quick tips
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SQL Management Studio Shortcuts
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Ctrl + L – Display query execution plan
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F5 – Run/Show result grid
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Rules for SQL Server
http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/default.aspx
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SQL Server Cheat sheet
http://www.pinaldave.com/sql-download/SQLServerCheatSheet.pdf
http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/sql-server-cheat-sheet/
Session 4 Lab
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CLR Integration
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