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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
database permissions management
- Implement backup and recovery strategies
and manage transaction logs
- Automate administrative activities with
SQL Server Agent multistep jobs
- Perform routine maintenance to correct
fragmentation and database corruption
Course Benefits
SQL Server 2008 provides a robust platform that enables
organizations to run their most demanding, mission-critical
applications. This hands-on course provides you with the
knowledge and skills to install SQL Server 2008, create and
modify storage structures, manage security and back up and
recover databases. Throughout the course, you gain experience in
performing administration tasks and techniques.
Who Should Attend
Those responsible for administering SQL Server 2008. A basic
understanding of SQL Server 2008 or experience at the level of ,
"SQL
Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction." Those with a DBA
background in SQL Server 2005 should take , "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
- Importing and exporting data
- Backing up and restoring databases
- Configuring Database Mail
- Carrying out routine database maintenance
- Monitoring server health
- Choosing installation options
- Upgrading from previous versions
- Employing multiple instances
- SQL Server Management Studio
- Transact-SQL
- SQL Server Configuration Manager
- SQLCMD
- PowerShell
- Policy-based management
- Examining disk structures
- Creating databases, filegroups and
transaction logs
- Permitting automatic database growth
- Expanding databases by adding files
- Specifying database options
- Scripting objects and moving data with
Transact-SQL
- Detaching and attaching databases
- Copying databases with the Copy
Database Wizard
- Contrasting Windows and SQL Server
authentications
- Authorizing logins
- Making logins members of server roles
- Enforcing password policy
- Designing schemas
- Adding users
- Delegating privileges with pre-defined
roles
- Defining new roles
- Assigning users to roles
- Handling mismapped logins
- Allowing server, database, schema and
object access
- Interaction of roles and permissions
- Overcoming broken ownership chains
- Packages
- Control flows
- Connections
- Data flows
- Business Intelligence Development
Studio
- Importing data from various data
sources
- Exporting data to different data stores
- Choosing a recovery model
- Transaction log architecture
- Performing full, log and differential
backups
- Reclaiming transaction log space
- Testing recovery scenarios
- Performing a piecemeal restore
- Recovering user databases
- Configuring the Agent
- Setting up Database Mail
- Defining jobs to handle routine tasks
- Creating alerts and operators
- Identifying and curing fragmentation
- Finding and repairing database
corruption
- Choosing maintenance tasks
- Scheduling plan execution
- Identifying problems with Activity
Monitor
- Defining performance data collectors
- Querying the Management Data Warehouse
- Identifying priority activities
- Balancing diverse workloads
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