Designing a Database Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2014

Course details

The focus of this instructor-led course is on planning and implementing enterprise database infrastructure solutions by using SQL Server 2014 and other Microsoft technologies. It describes how to consolidate SQL Server workloads, work with both on-premises and Microsoft Azure cloud-based solutions, and how to plan and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions

Objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Assess an existing enterprise environment.
• Plan and implement Policy-Based Management.
• Describe the considerations for consolidating workloads with SQL Server 2014.
• Describe considerations for including SQL Server 2014 in a private cloud.
• Use Microsoft Azure storage with SQL Server 2014.
• Implement and configure databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
• Implement and configure databases in Microsoft Azure virtual machines.
• Describe high availability technologies in SQL Server 2014 and implement log shipping.
• Describe Windows Server Failover Clustering and Implement an AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance.
• Implement an Always On Availability Group.
• Plan high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Plan and implement database replication.

Content

• Module 1: Introduction to Enterprise Data Architecture
• Module 2: Multi-Server Configuration Management
• Module 3: Consolidating Database Workloads with SQL Server 2014
• Module 4: Introduction to Cloud Data Solutions
• Module 5: Introduction to Microsoft Azure
• Module 6: Microsoft Azure SQL Database
• Module 7: SQL Server in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
• Module 8: Introduction to High Availability in SQL Server 2014
• Module 9: Clustering with Windows Server and SQL Server 2014
• Module 10: AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• Module 11: Planning High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Module 12: Replicating Data

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• At least 2 years’ experience of working with relational databases, including:
• Planning and implementing databases
• Managing databases
• Querying with TransactSQL
• Some basic knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery
• Some basic knowledge
• of Microsoft Azure technologies and concepts around cloud computing

Who should attend?

This course is intended for database professionals who need who plan, implement, and manage database solutions. Primary responsibilities include:

• Planning and implementing database infrastructure.
• Planning and implementing consolidation strategies.
• Implementing SQL Server in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid IT scenarios.
• Planning and implementing high availability solutions.
• Planning and implementing disaster recovery solutions.