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Learning Tree International
Topic(s):
Computers & Software > Data Base
Who Should Attend?
Administrators, engineers, consultants, analysts and others interested in database administration. Course 131, "SQL Server 2005 Introduction," or equivalent experience is assumed.
Full Seminar Description
You will learn how to: Administer SQL Server 2005 with SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL; Create and manage databases, transaction logs and database snapshots; Implement login and database security and manage permissions; Develop a backup and recovery strategy; Manage complex multistep jobs with SQL Server Agent; Deploy and manage transactional replication. REMOTE TRAINING: Attend live, instructor-led Learning Tree classes via your computer from wherever you want with NEW Learning Tree AnyWare™. Now you can learn from the world's best instructors and gain the management, leadership or IT skills you need to become even more effective in your job... from wherever you are! You participate in every aspect of the live course exactly as if you were in the physical classroom! With our groundbreaking Learning Tree AnyWare user portal, you can attend from anywhere with live video streaming over the Internet. Click on a 'REMOTE TRAINING' date above to enroll online as a Learning Tree AnyWare participant. See below for more details. Fee per person: $3190You will learn how to
- Administer SQL Server 2005 with SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL
- Create and manage databases, transaction logs and database snapshots
- Implement login and database security and manage permissions
- Develop a backup and recovery strategy
- Manage complex multistep jobs with SQL Server Agent
- Deploy and manage transactional replication
Course benefits
SQL Server 2005, with its advanced scalability, availability and security features, is a vital tool for an organization's mission-critical applications. To effectively administer SQL Server 2005, database administrators must learn how to take advantage of its robust feature set.This in-depth course provides extensive experience using SQL Server 2005 tools to perform real-world administrative tasks. You learn to install SQL Server, create and modify data structures, back up and recover databases, and manage security.
Who should attend
This course is valuable for administrators, engineers, consultants, analysts and others interested in database administration. Course 131, "SQL Server 2005 Introduction,"or equivalent experience is assumed. Those with a background in database administration in SQL Server 7 or 2000 should take Course 129, "SQL Server 2005 Administration: Skills Upgrade."Hands-on training
Throughout this course, a series of extensive hands-on exercises provides you with practical experience administering SQL Server 2005. Exercises include:- Administering SQL Server 2005 with graphical tools and Transact-SQL
- Creating databases
- Managing database snapshots
- Implementing security for logins, databases and objects
- Encrypting data with passwords
- Backing up and restoring system and user databases
- Setting up Database Mail, jobs and alerts
Course content
GETTING STARTED WITH SQL SERVER 2005- Components
- Services
- Editions
- System and user databases
- Essential tools
- SQL Server Management Studio
- Transact-SQL
- SQLCMD
- Surface Area Checker
INSTALLING SQL SERVER
- SQL Server 2005 installation
- Choosing installation options
- Employing multiple instances
- Upgrading from previous versions
- Configuring SQL Server
- Manipulating configuration settings
- Enabling network protocols
MANAGING DATABASES
- Disk structures
- Examining storage structures
- Creating databases and transaction logs
- Space management strategies
- Handling dynamic database growth
- Reclaiming unused space
- Working with database snapshots
- Taking database snapshots
- Improving performance with snapshots
- Moving databases
- Detaching and attaching databases
- Copying databases with the Copy Database Wizard
CONTROLLING SERVER AND DATABASE SECURITY
- Login security
- Contrasting Windows and SQL Server authentications
- Authorizing logins
- Making logins members of server roles
- Enforcing password policy
- Database security
- Designing schemas
- Adding users
- Defining new roles
- Delegating privileges with pre-defined roles
- Assigning users to roles
- Permissions
- Granting server, database, schema-scoped and object permissions
- Interaction of roles and permissions
- Securing Common Language Runtime (CLR) assemblies
- Encrypting sensitive data
- Selecting encryption algorithms
- Choosing asymmetric or symmetric keys
- Implementing certificate-based encryption
MONITORING SQL SERVER
- Studying ongoing activity
- Determining whether or not your hardware is adequate
- Identifying bottlenecks
- Capturing data for trend analysis
- Deploying the SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2)
- Scheduling SQLH2 data collection
- Interrogating the SQLH2 repository
BACKUP AND RECOVERY
- Planning for and recovering from disasters
- Transaction log architecture
- Choosing a recovery model
- Performing full, log and differential backups
- Recovering system and user databases
- Implementing database mirroring
- Selecting a mirroring architecture
- Configuring the mirror and witness servers
- Monitoring database mirroring
AUTOMATING TASKS WITH JOBS AND ALERTS
- The SQL Server Agent
- Configuring the Agent
- Setting up Database Mail
- Multistep jobs
- Defining jobs to handle routine tasks
- Creating alerts and operators
- Associating alerts with jobs
DEPLOYING REPLICATION
- Replication concepts
- Publish/subscribe metaphor
- Replication types
- Replication agents
- Managing transactional replication
- Configuring the Publisher and Distributor
- Establishing publications
- Subscribing to publications
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Attend live, instructor-led Learning Tree classes via your computer from wherever you want with NEW Learning Tree AnyWare™. Now you can learn from the world's best instructors and gain the management, leadership or IT skills you need to become even more effective in your job... from wherever you are!
You participate in every aspect of the live course exactly as if you were in the physical classroom! With our groundbreaking Learning Tree AnyWare user portal, you can attend from anywhere with live video streaming over the Internet.
- See and hear your instructor live, presenting and annotating the course materials on the in-class dual-screen MagnaLearn™ course content delivery system.
- Communicate in real-time directly with the instructor and your classmates both by voice and through the use of a Chat pod. Ask questions. Provide comments. Participate in the class discussions. Engage in collaborative "breakout" sessions.
- Perform the same hands-on exercises, with live assistance from your expert instructor, using the same in-class computers and software as the participants in the classroom, except that you perform them from anywhere!
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