After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use UI and command-line tools to import and export data.
• Describe the features of SQL Server Integration Services.

Module 6: Automating Administrative Tasks The students will learn how to automate routine administrative tasks using jobs, operators, and alerts. Lessons

• Lesson 1: Automating Administrative Tasks in SQL Server
• Lesson 2: Using SQL Server Agent
• Lesson 3: Creating Maintenance Plans
• Lesson 4: Implementing Alerts
• Lesson 5: Managing Multiple Servers
• Lesson 6: Managing SQL Server Agent security

Lab: Automating Administrative Tasks

• Exercise 1: Configuring SQL Server Agent
• Exercise 2: Creating Operators and Jobs
• Exercise 3: Creating Alerts

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Define SQL Server administrative tasks and schedule those tasks to run automatically.
• Configure SQL Server Agent to support automatic task scheduling.
• Script tasks by using SQL Server jobs, and define operators for managing those 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 7: Implementing Replication  The students will be introduced to techniques for configuring SQL Server replication. Lessons

• Lesson 1: Overview of Replication
• Lesson 2: Managing Publications and Subscriptions
• Lesson 3: Configuring Replication in Some Common Scenarios

Lab: Implementing Replication 

• Exercise 1: Implementing Snapshot Replication
• Exercise 2: Implementing Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication
• Exercise 3: Implementing HTTP Merge Replication

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe replication and its components.
• Configure and implement replication.
• Use replication to meet the requirements of some common scenarios.

Module 8: Maintaining High Availability The students will be introduced to concepts and methods for maintaining high availability with SQL Server. Lessons

• Lesson 1: Introduction to High Availability
• Lesson 2: Implementing Log Shipping
• Lesson 3: Implementing Database Mirroring
• Lesson 4: Implementing Server Clustering
• Lesson 5: Using Distributed High Availability Solutions 

Lab: Maintaining High Availability

• Exercise 1: Configuring Log Shipping
• Exercise 2: Configuring Database Mirroring
• Exercise 3: Implementing SQL Server Clustering

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the factors affecting database availability.
• Describe how to implement log shipping to support fast recovery of a standby SQL Server database
• Describe how to use SQL Server mirroring to implement a software solution for fast failover
• Explain how to implement clustering to support fast failover of computers running SQL Server instances.
• Describe how to implement distributed high availability solutions.

Module 9: Monitoring SQL Server The students will be introduced to monitoring SQL Server performance and activity. Lessons

• Lesson 1: Viewing Current Activity
• Lesson 2: Using SQL Server Profiler
• Lesson 3: Monitoring with DDL Triggers
• Lesson 4: Using Event Notifications

Lab: Monitoring SQL Server

• Exercise 1: Monitoring SQL Server Activity
• Exercise 2: Tracing SQL Server Activity
• Exercise 3: Using DDL Triggers
• Exercise 4: Using Event Notifications

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Examine the current activity in a SQL Server instance.
• Use SQL Server Profiler to trace server and database activity.
• Use DDL triggers to monitor changes to the structure of database objects.
• Use event notifications to capture and monitor significant events for a SQL Server instance.

Module 10: Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning The students will learn how to troubleshoot a variety of common SQL Server problems. Students will also learn how to tune SQL Server for improved performance using a variety of tools. Lessons

• Lesson 1: Troubleshooting SQL Server
• Lesson 2: Performance Tuning in SQL Server
• Lesson 3: Using Resource Governor
• Lesson 4: Using Data Collector

Lab: Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning

• Exercise 1: Troubleshooting Connectivity Problems
• Exercise 2: Troubleshooting Concurrency Problems
• Exercise 3: Using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor
• Exercise 4: Implementing Resource Governor
• Exercise 5: Implementing Data Collector

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Troubleshoot common SQL Server problems, such as connectivity, concurrency, and job and disk space problems.
• Perform basic performance tuning tasks in SQL Server using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor, index tuning, and query tuning.
• Use Resource Governor to manage SQL Server workloads and resources.
• Use Data Collector to obtain performance data about your computer and the instances of SQL Server running on your computer.

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