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SQL Server 2008 Database Administration: Hands-On

 
Course: 138     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Administer SQL Server 2008 with SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL
  • Build databases and upgrade from prior versions
  • Secure the server through logins and permissions management
  • Automate administrative activities with SQL Server Agent multistep jobs
  • Perform routine maintenance to correct fragmentation and database corruption
  • Identify problems and monitor server health

Course Benefits
SQL Server 2008 provides a robust platform that enables organizations to run their most demanding, mission-critical applications. It is essential that database administrators know how to manage this complex platform correctly. This hands-on course provides you with the skills you need to install SQL Server, create and modify storage structures, manage security, and backup and recover databases.

Who Should Attend
Those responsible for administering SQL Server 2008. A basic understanding of SQL Server 2008 or experience at the level of Course 137, "SQL Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed. Experienced SQL Server 2005 DBAs should take Course 136, "SQL Server 2008 Skills Upgrade."

Hands-On Training
Throughout this course, a series of extensive hands-on exercises provides you with practical experience administering SQL Server 2008. Exercises include:
  • Administering SQL Server 2008 with graphical tools and Transact-SQL
  • Creating databases
  • Implementing security for logins, databases and objects
  • Backing up and restoring databases
  • Managing transaction logs
  • Configuring Database Mail
  • Carrying out routine database maintenance
  • Monitoring server health

Course 138 Content
SQL Server 2008 Installation and Features
Installing SQL Server
  • Choosing installation options
  • Upgrading from previous versions
  • Employing multiple instances
Essential tools
  • SQL Server Management Studio
  • Transact-SQL
  • SQL Server Configuration Manager
  • Policy-based Management
Creating and Managing Databases
Storage structures
  • Examining disk structures
  • Creating databases and transaction logs
  • Defining file groups
Managing database space
  • Permitting automatic database growth
  • Adding database files to expand databases
  • Specifying database options
Moving databases
  • Scripting objects and moving data with Transact-SQL
  • Detaching and attaching databases
Implementing Server and Database Security
Creating logins
  • Contrasting Windows and SQL Server authentication
  • Authorizing logins
  • Making logins members of server roles
  • Enforcing password policy
Authorizing database access
  • Adding users
  • Defining new roles
  • Delegating privileges with predefined roles
  • Assigning users to roles
  • Handling mismapped logins
Managing Permissions
Granting database-scoped privileges
  • Permitting object creation
  • Granting blanket permissions
Schemas
  • Designing schemas
  • Assigning a default schema
Handling object-level permissions
  • Limiting object access
  • Meeting complex permission requirements with roles
  • Examining permission hierarchies
Recovering from Disasters
Backing up databases
  • Choosing a recovery model
  • Transaction log architecture
  • Performing full, log and differential backups
  • Reclaiming transaction log space
Restoring databases
  • Recovering user databases
  • Testing recovery scenarios
Automating Tasks with Jobs and Alerts
The SQL Server Agent
  • Configuring the agent
  • Setting up Database Mail
Multistep jobs
  • Defining jobs to handle routine tasks
  • Creating alerts and operators
  • Associating alerts with jobs
Performing Database Maintenance
Fragmentation and database corruption
  • Identifying and curing fragmentation
  • Finding and repairing database corruption
Database Maintenance Plan Wizard
  • Choosing maintenance tasks
  • Scheduling plan execution
Monitoring SQL Server
Ad hoc monitoring
  • Identifying problems with Activity Monitor
  • Querying Dynamic Management Objects
The Management Data Warehouse
  • Configuring data collection
  • Reviewing the reports
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SQL Server 2008 Database Administration: Hands-On
Classroom Dates
Jul 21-24: Washington, DC
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Sep 8-11: Washington, DC
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Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,667 Training Passport
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$ 2,170 Triple-Pack
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

SQL Server 2008 Database Administration: Hands-On
SQL Server 2008 Database Administration: Hands-On
Participants recovering the master database.


Certification Core Course CPE 23 Credits 1 Hour(s) College Credit
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