Description:
This five-day instructor-led course
provides students with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL
Server 2008 product features and tools related to maintaining a
database.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for IT Professionals
who administer and maintain SQL Server databases.
Syllabus:
Course Outline
Module 1:
Installing and Configuring SQL Server
The students will be
introduced to planning for a SQL Server installation. The students will then be
introduced to installing, configuring, and managing SQL Server.
After
completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain how to prepare the
hardware and other resources necessary to install SQL Server.
Install SQL
Server.
Manage and configure SQL Server.
Module 2: Managing
Databases and Files
The students will be introduced to database
planning and creation, and using database options to control database
behavior.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Plan a
database implementation that meets an organization's requirements.
Create a
SQL Server database.
Manage a SQL Server database.
Module 3:
Disaster Recovery
The students will be introduced to disaster
recovery techniques for SQL Server. They will learn how to perform different
types of backup and restore operations, including online restores and backup and
restores of system databases.
After completing this module, students will be
able to:
Plan a backup strategy for a database.
Back up user
databases.
Restore user databases from backups.
Restore data in a user
database while it is online.
Recover data for a user database from a database
snapshot.
Restore and recover system databases.
Module 4: Managing
Security
The students will be introduced to protecting SQL Server.
Students will learn about the SQL Server security model and how to use SQL
Server security features to control access to databases and their
contents.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe
how SQL Server manages security.
Protect SQL Server at the server
level.
Protect SQL Server databases.
Use keys and certificates to protect
SQL Server objects.
Audit SQL Server security.
Module 5:
Transferring Data
The students will be introduced to transfer data
to and from SQL Server using UI and command-line tools, and learn about
transferring and transforming data with SQL Server Integration
Services.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Use UI
and command-line tools to import and export data.
Describe the features of
SQL Server Integration Services.
Module 6: Automating Administrative
Tasks
The students will learn how to automate routine administrative
tasks using jobs, operators, and alerts.
After completing this module,
students will be able to:
Define SQL Server administrative tasks and schedule
those tasks to run automatically.
Configure SQL Server Agent to support
automatic task scheduling.
Script tasks by using SQL Server jobs, and define
operators for managing those jobs.
Define alerts to warn operators about
events raised by SQL Server.
Define and manage administrative tasks that span
multiple servers.
Configure SQL Server Agent security.
Module 7:
Implementing Replication
The students will be introduced to
techniques for configuring SQL Server replication.
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
Describe replication and its
components.
Configure and implement replication.
Use replication to meet
the requirements of some common scenarios.
Module 8: Maintaining High
Availability
The students will be introduced to concepts and methods
for maintaining high availability with SQL Server.
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
Describe the factors affecting database
availability.
Describe how to implement log shipping to support fast recovery
of a standby SQL Server database
Describe how to use SQL Server mirroring to
implement a software solution for fast failover
Explain how to implement
clustering to support fast failover of computers running SQL Server
instances.
Describe how to implement distributed high availability
solutions.
Module 9: Monitoring SQL Server
The students
will be introduced to monitoring SQL Server performance and activity.
After
completing this module, students will be able to:
Examine the current
activity in a SQL Server instance.
Use SQL Server Profiler to trace server
and database activity.
Use DDL triggers to monitor changes to the structure
of database objects.
Use event notifications to capture and monitor
significant events for a SQL Server instance.
Module 10:
Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning
The students will learn how
to troubleshoot a variety of common SQL Server problems. Students will also
learn how to tune SQL Server for improved performance using a variety of
tools.
After completing this module, students will be able
to:
Troubleshoot common SQL Server problems, such as connectivity,
concurrency, and job and disk space problems.
Perform basic performance
tuning tasks in SQL Server using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor, index
tuning, and query tuning.
Use Resource Governor to manage SQL Server
workloads and resources.
Use Data Collector to obtain performance data about your computer and the instances
of SQL Server running on your computer.
