X-Treme SQL 2008

Duration:5 days

Price:$2,995.00

Test Level:0

Certifications:
  • No Certification
Exams:
  • No Exam

Course Overview

X-Treme Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Course Outline

5 Days with lectures in the mornings and labs in the afternoons

Installing and Configuring SQL Server

  • Preparing to Install SQL Server
  • Installing SQL Server
  • Configuring a SQL Server Installation

Lab : Installing and Configuring SQL Server

  • Installing SQL Server
  • Configuring SQL Server

Managing Databases and Files

  • Planning Databases
  • Creating Databases
  • Using Policy-Based Management

Lab : Managing Databases and Files

  • Creating a Database
  • Monitoring and Managing Filegroup Usage
  • Creating a Policy

Disaster Recovery

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

Lab : Disaster Recovery

  • Designing a Backup Strategy
  • Implementing a Backup Strategy
  • Restoring and Recovering a Database
  • Performing Piecemeal Backup and Restore Operations
  • Restoring the master Database

Managing Security

  • Overview of SQL Server Security
  • Protecting the Server Scope
  • Protecting the Database Scope
  • Protecting the Server Scope
  • Auditing Security

Lab : Managing Security

  • Creating Logins and Assigning Server-Scope Permissions
  • Creating and Managing Users
  • Using a Certificate to Protect Data
  • Implementing SQL Server Audit

Automating Administrative Tasks

  • Automating Administrative Tasks in SQL Server
  • Using SQL Server Agent
  • Creating Maintenance Plans
  • Implementing Alerts
  • Managing Multiple Servers
  • Managing SQL Server Agent security

Lab : Automating Administrative Tasks

  • Configuring SQL Server Agent
  • Creating Operators and Jobs
  • Creating Alerts

Maintaining High Availability

  • Introduction to High Availability
  • Implementing Log Shipping
  • Implementing Database Mirroring
  • Implementing Server Clustering
  • Using Distributed High Availability Solutions

Lab : Maintaining High Availability

  • Configuring Log Shipping
  • Configuring Database Mirroring
  • Implementing SQL Server Clustering

Introduction to Business Intelligence

  • What is Business Intelligence
  • Introduction to Analysis Services
  • Introduction to Reporting Services
  • Overview of Integration Services

Demo/Optional Lab : Exploring Business Intelligence Features

  • Using Analysis Services
  • Using Reporting Services

Transferring Data

  • Overview of Data Transfer
  • Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services

Lab : Transferring Data

  • Using the Import/Export Wizard
  • Performing a Bulk Load
  • Creating an SSIS Solution

Monitoring SQL Server

  • Viewing Current Activity
  • Using SQL Server Profiler
  • Monitoring with DDL Triggers
  • Using Event Notifications

Lab : Monitoring SQL Server

  • Monitoring SQL Server Activity
  • Tracing SQL Server Activity
  • Using DDL Triggers
  • Using Event Notifications

Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning

  • Troubleshooting SQL Server
  • Performance Tuning in SQL Server
  • Using Resource Governor
  • Using Data Collector

Lab : Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning

  • Troubleshooting Connectivity Problems
  • Troubleshooting Concurrency Problems
  • Using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor
  • Implementing Resource Governor
  • Implementing Data Collector

Implementing Replication

  • Overview of Replication
  • Managing Publications and Subscriptions
  • Configuring Replication in Some Common Scenarios

Lab : Implementing Replication

  • Implementing Snapshot Replication
  • Implementing Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication
  • Implementing HTTP Merge Replication

What’s New in Transact-SQL

  • Working with Data Types
  • Cursors and Set-Based Queries
  • Dynamic SQL
  • Maintaining Query Files

Lab : Exploring New Features of Transact-SQL

  • Using Execution Plans
  • Converting Data Types
  • Implementing a Hierarchy
  • Using Cursors and Set-Based Queries

Summarizing Relational Data and Querying Alternate Data

  • Summarizing Data by Using Aggregate Functions
  • Summarizing Grouped Data
  • Ranking Grouped Data
  • Creating Crosstab Queries
  • Querying Metadata
  • Overview of XML
  • Querying XML Data
  • Overview of Full-Text Indexes
  • Querying Full-Text Indexes

Lab : Summarizing Data and Querying Alternate Data

  • Summarizing Data by Using Aggregate Functions
  • Summarizing Grouped Data
  • Ranking Grouped Data
  • Creating Crosstab Queries
  • Query metadata.
  • Describe the functionality of XML.
  • Query XML data.
  • Describe the functionality of full-text indexes.
  • Query full-text indexes.

Prerequisites

None

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