Course OutlineModule 1: Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005
This module explains how to plan for and install SQL Server 2005, how to manage a SQL Server 2005 installation, and how to use the SQL Server 2005 administrative tools.
Lessons
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Preparing to Install SQL Server
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Installing SQL Server 2005
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Managing a SQL Server 2005 Installation
Lab : Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005
- Performing an Installation
- 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 2005.
- Install SQL Server 2005.
- Manage and configure a SQL Server 2005 installation.
Module 2: Managing Databases and Files
This module explains how to manage databases and files.
Lessons
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Planning Databases
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Creating Databases
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Managing Databases
Lab : Managing Databases and Files
- Creating a Database
- Monitoring and Managing Filegroup Usage
- Viewing Database Metadata
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Plan how to implement a database that meets an organization's requirements.
- Create a SQL Server database.
- Manage a SQL Server database.
Module 3: Disaster Recovery
This module explains how to plan and implement a backup and restore strategy.
Lessons
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Planning a Backup Strategy
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Backing Up User Databases
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Restoring User Databases
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Performing Online Restore Operations
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Recovering Data from Database Snapshots
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System Database and Disaster Recovery
Lab : Disaster Recovery
- Implementing a Backup Strategy
- Restoring and Recovering a Database
- Performing Piecemeal Backup and Restore Operations
- Restoring the master Database
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 systems databases.
Module 4: Managing Security
This module explains how to manage principals, securables, and permissions, and how to implement cryptography in a SQL Server database.
Lessons
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Overview of SQL Server Security
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Protecting the Server Scope
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Protecting the Database Scope
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Managing Keys and Certificates in SQL Server
Lab : Managing Security
- Creating Logins and Assigning Server-Scope Permissions
- Creating and Managing Users
- Using a Certificate to Protect Data
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.
Module 5: Monitoring SQL Server
This module explains how to monitor SQL Server performance and activity.
Lessons
Lab : Monitoring SQL Server
- Monitoring SQL Server Performance
- Tracing SQL Server Activity
- Implementing DDL Triggers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Examine the current activity in a SQL Server instance.
- Use System Monitor to obtain performance data about your computer and the instances of SQL Server running on your computer.
- Use SQL Server Profiler to trace server and database activity.
- Implement DDL triggers that enable you to audit changes to the structure of database objects.
- Use event notifications to capture and monitor significant events for a SQL Server instance.
Module 6: Transferring Data
This module explains how to transfer and transform data.
Lessons
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Overview of Data Transfer
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Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services
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Using SQL Server Integration Services
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Features of SQL Server Integration Services
Lab : Transferring Data
- Creating an SSIS Package
- Deploying an SSIS Package
- Using SSIS to Extract Data, Perform Lookups, Sort, and Split Data
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the problems surrounding data transfer and the tools that SQL Server 2005 provides to perform data transfer.
- Describe the purpose of SQL Server Integration Services.
- Use SQL Server Integration Services to transfer data into a SQL Server database.
- Describe the features of SQL Server Integration Services.
Module 7: Automating Administrative Tasks
This module explains how to use the SQL Server Agent to automate administrative tasks.
Lessons
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Automating Administrative Tasks in SQL Server 2005
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Configuring the SQL Server Agent
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Creating Jobs and Operators
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Creating Alerts
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Managing Multiple Servers
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Managing SQL Server Agent Security
Lab : Automating Administrative Tasks
- Configuring SQL Server Agent
- Creating Operators and Jobs
- Creating Alerts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Define SQL Server 2005 administrative tasks and schedule these 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 these 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 8: Implementing Replication
This module explains the purpose of replication, introduces the concepts underpinning replication, and describes how to implement replication in several common scenarios.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing Replication
- Creating a Publication
- Creating a Subscription
- Implementing HTTP Merge 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 9: Maintaining High Availability
This module explains how to implement high availability technologies with SQL Server 2005.
Lessons
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Introduction to High Availability
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Implementing Server Clustering
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Implementing Database Mirroring
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Implementing Log Shipping
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Implementing Peer-to-Peer Replication
Lab : Maintaining High Availability
- Configuring Database Mirroring to Support Failover
- Implementing Distributed High Availability
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the factors affecting database availability.
- Explain how to implement clustering to support fast failover of computers running Microsoft SQL Server instances.
- Describe how to use SQL Server mirroring to implement a software solution for fast failover.
- Describe how to implement log shipping to support fast recovery of a standby SQL Server database.
- Explain how to use peer-to-peer replication to implement high availability in a distributed environment.