2786 Designing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Infrastructure

Module 1: Analyzing Capacity Needs

• Estimating Storage Requirements
• Estimating CPU Requirements
• Estimating Memory Requirements
• Estimating Network Requirements
Lab : Analyzing Capacity Needs
• Gathering Requirements that Impact or Affect Capacity Needs
• Estimating Capacity Needs

Module 2: Designing a Strategy for Data Archiving

• Identifying Requirements that Affect Data Archiving
• Determining the Structure of Archival Data
• Creating a Data Archival Plan
Lab : Designing a Strategy for Data Archiving
• Designing an Archiving Solution
• Defending Your Archiving Solution

Module 3: Designing a Strategy for Database Server Consolidation

• Overview of Database Server Consolidation
• Designing a Strategy for SQL Server Instances
• Designing a Database Server Consolidation Plan
Lab : Designing a Database Server Consolidation Strategy
• Designing a Consolidation Strategy
• Defending Your Consolidation Strategy

Module 4: Designing a Strategy for Data Distribution

• Overview of Data Distribution
• Creating a Data Distribution Plan Using Replication
Lab : Designing a Data Distribution Strategy Using Replication
• Designing a Data Distribution Strategy
• Defending Your Data Distribution Strategy

Module 5: Designing a Database Server Infrastructure

• Evaluating the Current Database Server Infrastructure
• Gathering Requirements for Changing a Database Server Infrastructure
• Designing Modifications to a Database Server Infrastructure
Lab : Designing a Database Server Infrastructure
• Choosing a Database Server Hardware and Software
• Defending Your Database Server Hardware and Software Choices

Module 6: Designing a Strategy for Data Recovery

• Creating a Backup and Restore Strategy
• Creating a Database Disaster Recovery Plan
Lab : Designing a Data Recovery Solution
• Devising a Recovery Strategy
• Sharing Lessons Learned from Disaster Recovery

Module 7: Establishing Database Conventions and Standards

• Establishing Database Naming Conventions
• Defining Database Standards
Lab : Establishing Database Conventions and Standards
• Proposing Improved Object Naming Conventions
• Proposing Improved Coding Standards

This two-day instructor-led course provides database administrators working in enterprise environments with the knowledge and skills to design a Microsoft SQL ServerT 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 tradeoffs 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

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.

Understand the tradeoffs among the different redundant storage types. For example, what RAID levels mean, and how they differ from Storage Area Networks (SAN).
• Understand how replication works and how replication is implemented.
• Be familiar with reading user requirements and business-need documents. For example, development project vision/mission statements or business analysis reports.
• Have some knowledge of how queries execute. Must be able to read a query execution plan and understand what is happening.
• Have basic knowledge of the dependencies between system components.

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