Designing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Infrastructure

This course provides database administrators working in enterprise environments with the knowledge and skills to design a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database infrastructure. The course focuses on the development of strategies for data archiving, consolidation, distribution, and recovery. The course also stresses the importance of capacity analysis and emphasizes the trade-offs that need to be made during design. This is the first course in the database administration curriculum and will serve as the entry point for other courses in the curriculum. After completing this course, students will be able to: • Analyze storage, CPU, memory, and network capacity needs. • Design a strategy for data archiving. • Design a strategy for database server consolidation. • Design a strategy for data distribution. • Design a database server infrastructure. • Design a strategy for data recovery. • Establish database conventions and standards.

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This course is intended for current professional database administrators who have three or more years of on-the-job experience administering SQL Server database solutions in an enterprise environment.

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• Understand the trade-offs 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 some knowledge of how queries execute. • Have basic knowledge of the dependencies between system components. • Be able to design a database to third normal form (3NF) and being familiar with design models, such as Star and Snowflake schemas. • Have monitoring and troubleshooting skills. • Have knowledge of the operating system and platform. • Have knowledge of application architecture. • A data modeling tool • Microsoft Visio • Be familiar with SQL Server 2005 features, tools, and technologies. • Have a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 credential or equivalent experience.