Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database

Target Audience
This course provides students with product knowledge and skills needed to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. It is intended for IT Professionals wanting to become skilled on SQL Server 2005 product features and technologies for maintaining a database.NB. A previous version of this course was run over 3 days.

Pre-Requisites
Before attending this course, students must have the following pre-requisites:Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.Working knowledge of Transact-SQL.Working knowledge of relational databases.Some experience with database design.In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed Course 2778, Writing Queries Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Transact-SQL and Course 2779, Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database.

Purpose
After completing this course, students will be able to install and configure SQL Server 2005; manage database files; backup and restore databases; manage security; monitor SQL Server; transfer data into and out of SQL Server; automate administrative tasks; replicate data between SQL Server instances; maintain high availability.

Course outline

1. Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005
2. Managing Databases and Files
3. Disaster Recovery
4. Managing Security
5. Monitoring SQL Server
6. Transferring Data
7. Automating Administrative Tasks
8. Implementing Replication
9. Maintaining High Availability

Module 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.
• Preparing to install SQL Server
• Installing SQL Server
• Managing a SQL Server 2005 Installation
• Lab: Installing and Configuring SQL Server

• 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.
• Planning databases
• Creating databases
• Managing databases
• Lab: Managing Databases and Files

• 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.
• Planning a Backup Strategy
• Backing Up User Databases
• Restoring User Databases
• Performing Online Restore Operations
• Recovering Data from Database Snapshots
• System Database and Disaster Recovery
• Lab: Disaster Recovery

• Plan a backup strategy for a database.
  
• Backup 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 system 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.
• Overview of SQL Server Security
• Protecting the Server Scope
• Protecting the Database Scope
• Managing Keys and Certificates in SQL Server
• Lab: Managing Security

• 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.
• Viewing Current Activity
• Using System Monitor
• Using SQL Server Profiler
• Using DDL Triggers
• Using Event Notifications
• Lab: Monitoring SQL Server

• Examine the current activity in a Microsoft 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.
• Overview of Data Transfer
• Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Using SQL Server Integration Services
• Features of SQL Server Integration Services
• Lab: Transferring Data

• 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.
• Automating Administrative Tasks in SQL Server 2005
• Configuring the SQL Server Agent
• Creating Jobs and Operators
• Creating Alerts
• Managing Multiple Servers
• Managing SQL Server Agent Security
• Lab: Automating Administrative Tasks

• Define and schedule SQL Server 2005 administrative tasks.
  
• 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.
• Overview of Replication
• Implementing Replication
• Configuring Replication in Some Common Scenarios
• Lab: Implementing Replication

• 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.
• Introduction to High Availability
• Implementing Server Clustering
• Implementing Database Mirroring
• Implementing Log Shipping
• Lab: Configuring Database Mirroring
• Lab: Implementing Distributed High Availability

• Describe the factors affective 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.