Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (ID# 2785AL)

Workshop General Description

This Distance Learning version of the course consists of online, live instructor-led sessions and additional self-paced e-learning content, scenario-based labs, and assessments to provide Participants with the knowledge and skills to manage and maintain Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Workshop Price

$2450.00 USD Per Participant (*please contact sales for group discounts)

Upcoming Classes - (5 consecutive days)

• January 11, 2010

Upcoming Classes - (10 days, 2-hour sessions)

• TBA

This course is intended for IT Professionals wanting to become skilled on SQL Server 2005 product features and technologies for maintaining a database.

On completion of this course, Participants will be able to:

• Install and configure SQL Server 2005.
• Create databases and database files.
• Create data types and tables.
• Generate basic SQL Server 2005 queries and XML reports.
• Manage SQL security.
• Backup and restore user databases.
• Recover system database in the event of a disaster.
• Implement data integrity for a database by using the constraints, triggers, and XML schema.
• Implement basic stored procedures and functions.
• Mirror SQL databases.

Before attending this course, Participants should have up to 1 year of experience implementing server plans although have probably not yet had full responsibility for planning.

This course requires that Participants meet the following prerequisites:

• 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.
• Working knowledge of XML

• Exam 70-431: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance:

This module describes how to create views by using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL, the options available, and how to find information about views. The module then addresses restrictions on modifying data through views and how views can improve database performance.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to: 

• Describe the architecture and components of SQL Server 2005.
• Describe how to prepare for a SQL Server installation.
• Install SQL Server 2005.
• Manage a SQL Server installation.

This module describes how data is stored in SQL Server 2005. It provides information on how to create filegroups, databases, and schemas. It also covers aspects of creating database snapshots and managing them.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Plan the creation of databases.
• Create databases.
• Create schemas
• Manage databases.

 It is important to know the characteristics of the various data types so that you can assign the appropriate data values for any column in an SQL Server database table. SQL Server provides a number of data types that are associated with the categories of data types used by common programming languages. This module describes the characteristics of the various SQL Server data types.

 This module will also help you understand how SQL Server organizes data in rows. This knowledge is important, as it can enable you to accurately estimate the size of a table.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Describe data types.
• Create data types and tables.

This module provides the knowledge and skills to perform basic Transact SQL queries in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It also provides an overview of T-SQL and shows how to retrieve, group, summarize, and modify data. It provides an overview of querying multiple tables by using different types of joins, and gives you the foundation to query XML data by using XQuery.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Explain printing in the Windows Server 2003 family.
• Retrieve data from tables by using the SELECT statement.
• Use the GROUP BY clause to filter data.
• Write INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements to modify data in tables.
• Organize summary data for a column by using aggregate functions with the GROUP BY and HAVING clauses.
• Generate XML-based reports.

Security is a primary consideration when designing and managing a database environment. In this module, you will learn about the Microsoft SQL Server security model in SQL Server 2005, which is considerably enhanced and extended from previous versions of SQL Server.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Describe the security architecture in SQL Server 2005.
• Monitor SQL Server 2005 performance and activity.
• Automate tasks by creating jobs, operators, and alerts.

Frequently, the data in a database substantiates an organization’s operations. Without the database, the organization cannot function properly. It is important that every mission-critical database system has adequate disaster-recovery procedures in place.

Backup and restore operations are a vital part of data management and are essential for recovering from failures and disasters. Therefore, a major part of a database administrator’s role is to ensure that data is backed up and can be restored quickly in the event of a disaster.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Plan a backup strategy.
• Back up and restore user databases.
• Recover data from database snapshots.
• Recover system databases.

This module provides an overview of planning, creating, and optimizing indexes. It explains the differences between heaps, clustered indexes, and nonclustered indexes and where you would use each one. It describes how to create the different types of indexes and how to configure and maintain them to attain optimal performance benefits.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Plan, create, and optimize SQL indexes.
• Create XML indexes.

This module provides an overview of the types of data integrity that will concern you as a database developer, and summarizes the features provided by SQL Server 2005 to meet those concerns. It also provides an opportunity to discuss the powerful data integrity features of SQL Server 2005 - constraints, triggers, and XML schemas.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Implement data integrity for a database by using the constraints, triggers, and XML schema features of SQL Server 2005.

This module describes how to create views by using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL, and how to find information about views. The module then addresses restrictions on modifying data through views and how views can improve database performance.

You will also learn how to create stored procedures and user-defined functions and how to implement structured error handling and understand execution context.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Describe the types and uses of views.
• Create and manage views.
• Implement stored procedure
• Create parameterized stored procedures.
• Implement functions

In this module you will learn about the different types of replication, the server roles involved, and scenarios involving server-to-server and server-to-client replication. In addition to replication, you will also learn about database mirroring, which is an alternative high-availability solution to failover clustering in SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.

This module also introduces Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Broker, a message-based platform for building service-oriented database solutions. The module also summarizes the architecture and functionality of Service Broker, explains how to create Service Broker objects, and describes how to send and receive Service Broker messages.

After completing this module, Participants will be able to:

• Identify ways to improve data availability.
• Transfer and transform data by using SSIS.
• Describe common replication scenarios.
• Implement database mirroring.
• Send and receive Service Broker messages.