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You Will Learn How To
- Leverage SQL Server 2005 features and
administration tools
- Build database availability solutions with
database mirroring and database snapshots
- Deploy a peer-to-peer replication topology
- Implement encryption and other enhanced
security features
- Upgrade a SQL Server 2000 installation and
SQL Server 2000 databases
- Integrate Database Mail with SQL Server
Agent
Course Benefits
SQL Server 2005 includes an extensive array of tools for SQL
Server administrators. Those migrating from SQL Server 2000 or
SQL Server 7 must upgrade their skills in order to leverage the
enhanced feature set. This skills upgrade course provides the
knowledge required to effectively administer SQL Server 2005.
You learn to build database availability solutions and exploit
the wide range of administrator tools to gain maximum benefit
for your organization.
Who Should Attend
Experienced SQL Server administrators considering or
currently migrating to SQL Server 2005. Familiarity with
administering SQL Server is assumed.
Hands-On Training
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on exercises provide
practical experience administering SQL Server 2005. Exercises,
performed under the guidance of an expert instructor, include:
- Implementing peer-to-peer replication
- Mirroring a database
- Building a permission hierarchy that
enforces the least privilege principle
- Encrypting data with certificates
- Deploying SQLH2 and reviewing collected
data
- Configuring Database Mail
- Upgrading SQL Server 2000 databases
- Installing SQL Server 2005
- Upgrading from previous versions
- Upgrade Advisor
- Applying a Service Pack
- Registering servers
- Writing and issuing queries
- Generating scripts with Object Explorer
- SQLCMD
- Surface Area Configuration
- SQL Server Configuration Manager
- Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
- Selecting mirroring architecture
- Configuring the mirror and witness
servers
- Taking database snapshots
- Combining snapshots and mirroring
- Concepts and terminology
- Configuring peer servers
- Studying the agent security model
- Securing the Distributor, Publisher and
Subscribers
- Analyzing packages with the Upgrade
Advisor
- Running the Migration Wizard
- Encapsulating DTS packages with the
Execute SQL 2000 Package task
- Working with Business Intelligence
Development Studio
- Control Flow
- Data Flow
- Connections
- Testing the package
- Principals
- Securables
- Scope
- Exploring Windows security policy
- Specifying policy enforcement and
expiration for a SQL Server login
- Users vs. schemas
- Designing schemas
- Assigning a default schema to a user
- Granting fine-grained permissions
- Server
- Database
- Schema
- Object
- Choosing asymmetric or symmetric keys
- Implementing certificate-based
encryption
- Backing up keys
- Enabling the CLR feature
- Creating Assemblies
- Selecting safety levels
- Creating a credential and mapping it to
a proxy
- Specifying a proxy for CmdExec and
ActiveScript steps
- Creating a mail profile
- Configuring Agent's properties
- Testing the mail setup
- Studying activity with Activity Monitor
- Querying Dynamic Management Objects
- Deploying the Performance Dashboard
- Analyzing trends with the SQL Server
Health and History tool (SQLH2)
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