Upgrading Your SQL Server 2000 Database Administration (DBA) Skills to SQL Server 2008 DBA Skills

This module will help students to understand how to plan for a SQL Server 2008 installation, upgrade, and migration.

Lesson 1: Preparing for SQL Server 2008 Installation

Lesson 2: Installing SQL Server 2008

Lesson 3: Upgrading a SQL Server 2000 Instance

Lesson 4: Configuring a SQL Server Installation

Lesson 5: Using SQL Server Configuration Manager

Exercise 1: Analyzing the SQL Server 2000 Instance

Exercise 2: Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

Exercise 3: Validating the Upgrade

Exercise 4: Reviewing SQL Server Books Online

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain how to prepare the hardware and other resources necessary to install SQL Server 2008.

Install SQL Server 2008.

Upgrade to SQL Server 2008.

Configure SQL server options with sp_configure.

Use SQL Server Configuration Manager.

This module will teach students about changes to data storage, including data types, indexes, and partitions in SQL Server 2008.

Lesson 1: Data Type Enhancements

Lesson 2: Table Partitioning

Lesson 3: Indexing Enhancements

Lesson 4: Tuning Indexes (Optional)

Exercise 1: Partitioning Tables

Exercise 2: Using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (Optional)

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand SQL Server data types.

Understand table partitioning.

Create and manipulate indexes.

Tune indexes.

This module will help students to understand administration tools that are new or enhanced with SQL Server 2008.

Lesson 1: Administration Tools Overview

Lesson 2: Using SQL Server Management Studio

Lesson 3: Using the sqlcmd Utility

Lesson 4: Using Windows PowerShell

Exercise 1: Using SQL Server Management Studio

Exercise 2: Using SQL Server Command-Line Management

Exercise 3: Using PowerShell

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Gain exposure to new administration tools.

Use SQL Server Management Studio to manage databases.

Use the sqlcmd utility to execute Transact-SQL from the command prompt.

Use the Windows PowerShell provider for SQL Server.

This module will help students to understand enhancements and additions to SQL Server 2008 Security.

Lesson 1: SQL Server 2008 Security Overview

Lesson 2: Managing SQL Server 2008 Security

Lesson 3: Managing Permissions

Lesson 4: Managing Keys and Certificates

Lesson 5: Data Encryption

Exercise 1: Managing Principals

Exercise 2: Managing Securables

Exercise 3: Managing Permissions

Exercise 4: Configuring Column Encryption

Exercise 5: Transparent Data Encryption

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the security architecture of SQL Server 2008.

Manage securables and principals.

Manage permissions.

Use keys and certificates in SQL Server 2008.

Encrypt SQL Server data.

This module will teach student how to prepare for and recover from potential database disasters.

Lesson 1: Database Backup

Lesson 2: Backup Compression

Lesson 3: Database Restoration

Lesson 4: Database Snapshots

Exercise 1: Making a Copy-Only Backup

Exercise 2: Using Compression for Backup Files

Exercise 3: Creating the Database Snapshot

Exercise 4: Restoring From a Database Snapshot

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Backup a database.

Implement backup compression.

Restore databases and transaction logs.

Use Database Snapshot to backup and restore data.

This module will teach students how to maintain availability to their SQL Server data even through server downtime.

Lesson 1: Log Shipping

Lesson 2: Database Mirroring

Lesson 3: Determining the Best High Availability Solution

Exercise 1: Implementing Log Shipping

Exercise 2: Implementing Database Mirroring

Exercise 3: Implementing Peer-to-Peer Replication

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use Log Shipping to ensure high availability.

Use database mirroring to ensure high availability.

Determine the best high availability solution.

This module helps students to take advantage of the replication enhancements in SQL Server 2008.

Lesson 1: New Types of Replication

Lesson 2: Additional Replication Enhancements

Exercise 1: Implementing Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication

Exercise 2: Implementing HTTP Replication

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the new types of replication available in SQL Server 2008.

Understand other replication enhancements in SQL Server 2008.

The students will be introduced to new SQL Server 2008 policy-based management features.

Lesson 1: Understanding Central Management Servers

Lesson 2: Understanding Policy-Based Management

Lesson 3: Implementing Policy-Based Management

Exercise 1: Creating a Central Management Server and Server Group

Exercise 2: Creating and Applying a Policy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand Central Management Servers.

Understand Policy-Based Management.

Implement Policy-Based Management.

This module helps students to use SQL Server 2008 monitoring features.

Lesson 1: Monitoring a Database

Lesson 2: Using DDL Triggers

Lesson 3: Auditing in SQL Server

Lesson 4: Event Notifications

Lesson 5: Using Static and Dynamic Metadata

Exercise 1: Monitoring SQL Server Activity

Exercise 2: Tracing SQL Server Activity

Exercise 3: Using DLL Triggers

Exercise 4: Using Event Notification

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Monitor database activity.

Use DDL triggers to respond to DDL events.

Use SQL Server audit.

Use event notifications to capture database events.

Query SQL Server metadata.

This module helps students to take advantage of the performance enhancements in SQL Server 2008.

Lesson 1: Managing Workloads with Resource Governor

Lesson 2: Monitoring Performance with the Data Collector

Lesson 3: Managing Performance with Plan Freezing

Exercise 1: Using Resource Governor

Exercise 2: Using the Data Collector

Exercise 3: Using Plan Freezing

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage workloads with Resource Governor.

Monitor performance with the Data Collector.

Manage performance with Plan Freezing.