SQL Server - Advanced Administration (MSQL2)

Databases, Microsoft SQL

This course is designed for administrators with basic SQL Server skills who want to master advanced administration of the database engine. It covers planning, installation, configuration, security hardening and strategies to maintain performance and high availability.

Topics include hardware and storage planning, tempdb and transaction log design, full-text search, partitioning, compression and Filestream, change capture, and advanced backup and recovery. You will also study replication and performance tuning.

Location, current course term

Praha + online (volitelně)	11/3/2025 - 11/4/2025 CZECH Order 1/19/2026 - 1/20/2026 CZECH Order
Custom	Customized Training (date, location, content, duration)

The course:

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• Introduction to advanced administration
1. Installing SQL Server and planning for performance, stability and HA
2. Hardware and software requirements
3. Storage types and choosing the right option
4. Planning user databases, tempdb, and the transaction log

• Full-text indexes
1. Full-text search in SQL Server
2. Creating and managing full-text indexes
3. Using CONTAINS and FREETEXT predicates
4. Full-text functions
5. Differences between full-text predicates and functions
6. Combining full-text with SQL queries

• Advanced data management
1. Partition functions and schemes
2. Partitioning tables and indexes
3. Querying data in partitions
4. Managing partitions
5. Partition switching for fast data movement between tables
6. Data and index compression, including partition-level compression
7. Filestream — storing binary data in files on disk
8. Change Tracking and Change Data Capture
9. Advanced database and server settings

• Advanced backup and recovery
1. Backup types: full, differential, transaction log
2. Transaction log concepts
3. Point-in-time recovery
4. Page restore
5. Filegroup and file restore
6. Piecemeal restore

• Introduction to high availability (HA) — options and principles
1. Continuous availability solutions in SQL Server
2. Failover clustering
3. AlwaysOn Availability Groups (2012)
4. Database mirroring
5. Log shipping

• Troubleshooting and performance tuning
1. Troubleshooting SQL Servers and using DMVs
2. SQL Profiler and SQLDiag — capturing workload
3. Database Engine Tuning Advisor — automated tuning
4. Resource Governor — limiting resources for workloads
5. Data Collector and Utility Control Points
6. Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)

• Replication
1. Overview of replication in SQL Server
2. Replication types and topologies
3. Implementing and configuring replication
4. Creating publications and subscriptions
5. Snapshot, merge and transactional replication
6. Peer-to-Peer transactional replication
7. HTTP Merge Replication

• Overview of other SQL Server components
1. Analysis Services — OLAP cubes and data mining
2. Reporting Services — reporting
3. PowerPivot and Power View — self-service BI
4. Integration Services — ETL and data warehousing
5. StreamInsight
6. Master Data Services
7. Data Quality Services
8. SQL Azure — SQL Server in the cloud
9. PowerShell provider
10. Service Broker — asynchronous messaging
11. Native web services

Assumed knowledge:

Basic Windows Server administration and basic SQL Server administration experience.

Recommended previous course:

SQL Server Administration (MSQL1)

Recommended subsequent course:

MS SQL Server - Comprehensive Performance Optimization (MSQL3)

Schedule:

2 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )

Course price:

476.00 € ( 575.96 € incl. 21% VAT)

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