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Courses & Certifications
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MS2788 Designing a High Availability Database Solutions Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
| Course start date: |
23-Feb-2009, 27-Apr-2009, 25-May-2009 |
| Training Location |
9 Denison St, Newcastle West |
| Training Format: |
Classroom |
| Duration: |
3 Days |
| Price: | $1,800.00 Inc GST |
Overview
This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to
design high availability database solutions using Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The course focuses on
teaching experienced database administrators working in enterprise environments to design database
solutions that meet the availability needs of their organization. It emphasizes that students should
think broadly about high availability, which includes thinking about the database itself and about
their entire environment, including business needs; regulatory requirements; and network, systems,
and database considerations during design. Students will also learn how to document and test the
high availability database solution.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must:
- Have a basic understanding of network architecture.
- Understand the tradeoffs among the different redundant storage types.
- Understand how replication works and how replication is implemented.
- Be familiar with reading user requirements and business-need documents.
- Have monitoring and troubleshooting skills.
- Have knowledge of the operating system and platform.
- Have knowledge of application architecture.
- Know how to use:
- A monitoring tool
- Microsoft Visio (to create infrastructure diagrams)
- Be familiar with SQL Server 2005 features, tools, and technologies.
- Have a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 credential - or equivalent experience.
Course Outline
Module 1: Selecting the Appropriate High-availability Solution
This module provides the guidelines for identifying business requirements and technical
and non-technical constraints of high-availability. This module also explains the
guidelines for analyzing the requirements and constraints for high-availability.
Finally, this module provides a brief overview of existing high-availability
technologies and explains the process and guidelines for determining the appropriate
high-availability technology that can be used to meet business requirements and constraints.
Lessons
- Identifying High-availability Requirements and Constraints
- Analyzing High-availability Requirements and Constraints
- Determining Appropriate High-availability Solutions
Module 2: Designing a Clustering Solution
This module provides the considerations and guidelines for designing a SQL Server cluster
implementation. This module also provides the guidelines for designing recovery strategies
and formulating the test plan for database clustering. Next, this module explains the
considerations for migrating and upgrading SQL Server clusters. Finally, this module
explains the process of creating an operations plan for clustering. In this module, you
will also learn about the planned and unplanned events that can affect a cluster environment.
Lessons
- Designing the Platform for Clustering
- Designing the SQL Server Cluster Implementation
- Designing Recovery Strategies and Test Plans for Database Clustering
- Migrating and Upgrading SQL Server Clusters
- Designing an Operations Plan for Clustering
Module 3: Designing a Highly Available Database Storage Solution
This module provides the guidelines and considerations to determine the storage requirements for SQL
Server databases, components, and external files that are a part of the database system. This
module also explains the guidelines for designing storage solutions for these resources.
In this module, you will also learn about designing restore strategies to maximize availability.
Finally, this module explains the guidelines for recovering damaged and partially damaged system
and user databases.
Lessons
- Determining Storage Requirements for SQL Server Databases
- Determining Storage Requirements for SQL Server Components and Files
- Designing Storage Solutions for SQL Server Databases
- Designing a Backup and Restore Strategy
Module 4: Designing a Log Shipping Solution
In this module, you will learn about the guidelines and considerations for designing a log
shipping solution. This module provides the guidelines for determining log shipping server
roles and topology. This module also explains the guidelines for upgrading log shipping.
Finally, this module explains the process of designing an operations plan for log shipping.
In this module, you will also learn about the planned and unplanned events that can
affect a log shipping environment.
Lessons
- Introduction to Designing a Log Shipping Solution
- Designing Log Shipping Server Roles and Topology
- Designing a Log Shipping Upgrade Strategy
- Designing an Operations Plan for Log Shipping
Module 5: Designing a Database Mirroring Solution
In this module, you will learn about the guidelines and considerations for designing
a database mirroring solution. This module provides the guidelines for determining
the database roles and topology for mirroring. This module also explains the guidelines
for migrating from an existing high-availability technology in SQL Server 2000 to
database mirroring in SQL Server 2005.
Finally, this module explains the process of designing an operations plan for database
mirroring. In this module, you will also learn about the planned and unplanned events
that can affect a mirroring environment.
Lessons
- Introduction to Designing a Database Mirroring Solution
- Designing Database Roles and Topology for Database Mirroring
- Converting High-availability Solutions to Database Mirroring
- Designing an Operations Plan for Database Mirroring
Module 6: Designing a Highly Available Solution Based on Replication
In this module, you will learn about the guidelines and considerations for designing a
highly-available solution based on replication. This module provides the guidelines for
determining replication server roles and topology. This module also explains the
guidelines for upgrading replication.
Finally, this module explains the process of designing an operations plan for replication.
In this module, you will also learn about the planned and unplanned events that can affect
a replication environment.
Lessons
- Introduction to Designing a Replication Solution
- Designing a Replication Solution
- Designing a Replication Upgrade Strategy
- Designing an Operations Plan for Replication
Module 7: Combining High-availability Technologies
This module provides guidelines for designing high-availability solutions by combining
existing high-availability technologies. This module enables you to evaluate the
weaknesses in each high-availability technology. In this module, you will determine
technologies that complement each other to minimize these weaknesses.
Lessons
- Evaluating Weaknesses in Each High-availability Technology
- Maximizing Availability by Combining High-availability Technologies
Module 8: Documenting and Testing a High-availability Strategy
This module provides guidelines for documenting and testing high-availability solutions.
This module explains the structure of a high-availability solution document and also
explains the need for documenting the solution. In this module, you will also discuss
the process of creating a test plan for high-availability solutions.
Lessons
- Documenting High-availability Solutions
- Creating a Test Plan for High-availability Solutions
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