50400, Designing, Optimizing, and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

The primary audience of this course is IT professionals who design and maintain SQL Server databases. The audience can also comprise technical architects and consultants who design and implement SQL Server solutions. Students taking this course are expected to have three or more years of experience working on databases for two or more of the following phases in the product lifecycle - design, development, deployment, optimization, maintenance, or support.

The students should have experience in the following areas:

• Administering databases
• Designing logical database schema solutions
• Defining high-availability solutions
• Automating administrative tasks
• Defining security solutions
• Monitoring and troubleshooting the database server
• Designing and executing deployments
• Defining the infrastructure (storage, hardware, and number of servers or instances, etc.)

Before attending this course, students must:

• Understand the tradeoffs among the different redundant storage types. For example, what RAID levels mean, and how they differ from Storage Area Networks (SAN).
• Understand how replication works and how replication is implemented.
• Be familiar with reading user requirements and business-need documents. For example, development project vision/mission statements or business analysis reports.
• Have some knowledge of how queries execute. Must be able to read a query execution plan and understand what is happening.
• Have basic knowledge of the dependencies between system components.
• Be able to design a database to third normal form (3NF) and know the tradeoffs when backing out of the fully normalized design (denormalization) and designing for performance and business requirements in addition to being familiar with design models, such as Star and Snowflake schemas.
• Have monitoring and troubleshooting skills.
• Have knowledge of the operating system and platform. That is, how the operating system integrates with the database, what the platform or operating system can do, and how the interaction between the operating system and the database works. For example, how integrated authentication interacts with Active Directory service.
• Have knowledge of application architecture. That is, how applications can be designed in three layers, what applications can do, interaction between applications and the database, interaction between the database and the platform or operating system.

Must already know how to use:

• A data modeling tool
• Microsoft Office Visio (to create infrastructure diagrams)
• Be familiar with SQL Server 2005 features, tools, and technologies.
• Have a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 credential or equivalent experience.

In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:

• 2779, Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database
• 2780, Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database

In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should have technical knowledge equivalent to the following courses:

• 6231, Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Database
• 6232, Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Database

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Implement an administrative solution for SQL Server 2008.
• Deploy SQL Server 2008.
• Design the physical structure for SQL Server 2008.
• Design a strategy for maintaining SQL Server 2008.
• Design a strategy for managing SQL Server 2008.
• Automate the database managing strategy for SQL Server 2008.
• Design a strategy for securing databases in SQL Server 2008.
• Design a strategy for monitoring SQL Server 2008.
• Design a strategy for content distribution in SQL Server 2008.
• Design a strategy for replication in SQL Server 2008.
• Design a high availability solution for SQL Server 2008.
• Design a strategy for backup and recovery in SQL Server 2008.

Module 1: Designing an Administrative Solution for SQL Server 2008

Overview of SQL Server 2008
Designing an Administrative Solution
Developing and Deploying an Administrative Solution for SQL Server 2008
Implementing an Administrative Solution in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Lab: Designing an Administrative Solution for SQL Server 2008
Designing an Administrative Solution
Using SQL PowerShell to Automate SQL Server Configuration
Creating SQL Server PowerShell Scripts
Configuring FILESTREAM Support in SQL Server 2008

Module 2: Deploying SQL Server 2008

System Requirements for SQL Server 2008
Upgrading and Migrating to SQL Server 2008
Configuring Instances in SQL Server 2008
Lab: Deploying SQL Server 2008
Planning a SQL Server Upgrade
Preparing for the Upgrade
Upgrading to SQL Server 2008
Performing Post-Upgrade tasks

Module 3: Designing the Physical Structure of SQL Server 2008

Introduction to the Physical Structure of a Database
Planning for Partitioning
Planning for Full-Text Indexing
Lab: Designing the Physical Structure of SQL Server 2008
Planning the Physical Structure of SQL Server 2008
Implementing the Physical Structure of a Database
Configuring Partitions
Configuring Full-Text Indexing

Module 4: Designing a Strategy for Maintaining a Database in SQL Server 2008

Designing a Strategy for Maintaining Statistics for a Database
Designing a Strategy for Maintaining Indexes
Designing a Strategy for Database Compression
Lab: Designing a Strategy for Maintaining a Database in SQL Server 2008
Designing a Database Maintenance Strategy
Maintaining Statistics
Maintaining Indexes
Implementing Database Compression

Module 5: Designing Solutions for Managing SQL Server 2008

Designing a Policy-Based Management Strategy
Controlling Resource Usage by using Resource Governor
Auditing Database Changes
Lab: Designing Solutions for Managing SQL Server 2008
Designing a Management Strategy for SQL Server 2008
Configuring Policies by Using Policy-Based Management
Governing Resources Consumption
Implementing DDL Triggers
Implementing CDC

Module 6: Automating the Database Management Strategy for SQL Server 2008

Managing SQL Server Agent
Automating Administrative Tasks in SQL Server
Monitoring Events in SQL Server
Lab: Automating the Database Management Strategy for SQL Server 2008
Planning an Automated Database Management Strategy
Using SQL Server Agent
Creating Scripts to Automate Administrative Tasks
Enabling Event Notification
Setting up SQL Server Agent to Monitor Events

Module 7: Designing a Strategy for Securing SQL Server 2008

Securing SQL Server 2008 Instances
Planning Database Security
Managing Certificate and Keys in SQL Server 2008
Implementing Database Encryption
Lab: Designing a Strategy for Securing SQL Server 2008
Designing a strategy for Database Security
Configuring Security in SQL Server
Enabling Database Encryption

Module 8: Designing a Strategy for Monitoring SQL Server 2008

Overview of Monitoring SQL Server 2008
Monitoring SQL Server Instances
Monitoring SQL Server Databases
Monitoring Multiple SQL Servers by Using Data Collection
Lab: Designing a Strategy for Monitoring SQL Server 2008
Designing a Data Collection Architecture
Monitoring SQL Server Instances
Implementing Tracing in SQL Server 2008
Using DTA
Monitoring Performance by Using Data Collection

Module 9: Designing a Strategy for Content Distribution in SQL Server 2008

Distributing Data in SQL Server 2008
Working with Distributed Queries
Managing Distributed Content by Using Distributed Transactions
Managing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Packages
Setting Up Scalable Shared Databases
Lab: Designing a Strategy for Content Distribution in SQL Server 2008
Selecting a Content Distribution Technology
Performing a Remote Query
Monitoring an SSIS Package

Module 10: Designing a Strategy for Replication in SQL Server 2008

Designing a Database Replication Strategy
Implementing Content Distribution by using Replication
Configuring a High-Availability Solution by Using Replication
Lab: Designing a Strategy for Replication in SQL Server 2008
Designing a Replication Strategy
Setting up Snapshot Replication
Setting up Peer-To-Peer Replication

Module 11: Designing a High-Availability Solution for SQL Server 2008

Introduction to High Availability
Implementing Log Shipping
Implementing Database Mirroring
Implementing Failover Clustering
Designing a High-Availability Strategy
Lab: Designing a High-Availability Solution for SQL Server 2008
Designing a High-Availability Strategy
Implementing Database Mirroring
Designing a Failover Cluster

Module 12: Designing a Backup and Recovery Strategy for SQL Server 2008

 Planning a Backup Strategy
Planning a Recovery strategy
Designing a Backup and Recovery Strategy
Implementing a Repair Strategy
Lab: Designing a Backup and Recovery Strategy for SQL Server 2008
Designing a Backup and Recovery Solution
Backing up a Database
Restoring a Database by Using Online Operations
Restoring a System Database

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