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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Overview for Database Professionals
Bring Your Own Laptop
2 1/2-days Hands-on Workshop



Fee $995

Kimberly L. Tripp
Paul Randal

SQL Server 2008 offers an impressive array of capabilities for professional developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2005. The use of many of these will have manageability and infrastructure implications for a database - and hence the DBA! There are also enhancements to existing high-availability technologies, plus a variety of significant new tools to aid in managing performance, scalability, administration, and troubleshooting. This workshop helps you understand how to exploit the new toolset and how to manage a database that makes use of the new features in SQL Server 2008. The multi-day format of this event allows us to explore each feature in more detail, with more in-depth demonstrations and labs.

Topics covered include:
  • Availability Enhancements
    • Database Mirroring
    • Backup Compression
    • Peer-to-Peer Replication
  • Security Enhancements
    • Transparent Data Encryption
    • Extensible Key Management
    • All Actions Audited
  • Policy-Based Management and Multi-Server Administration
  • Troubleshooting and Throttling
    • Resource Governor
    • Extended Events
  • New Development Technologies
    • Spatial Indexes
    • Sparse Columns
    • Filtered Indexes and Statistics
    • Change Tracking and Change Data Capture
    • FILESTREAM
  • Performance Data Collection
  • Scalability Enhancements
    • Data Compression
    • Partition-Level Lock Escalation
Who should attend this workshop?
  • Database administrators
  • IT Pros who also manage databases
  • Application developers who would like to know how feature choice affects database scalability and infrastructure requirements
What are the benefits of attending this workshop?
  • Learn all the essential elements of SQL Server 2008 administration in an interactive, instructor-led format
  • Learn about the new features of SQL Server 2008 that developers will use that have management implications
  • Deep and intensive 200-300-level technical training custom-designed for professional DBAs and IT-Pros
  • Courseware developed by Paul S. Randal and Kimberly L. Tripp of www.SQLskills.com, pre-eminent experts in SQL Server administration
  • Get hands-on experience with SQL Server 2008 administration
NOTE: An Internet connection is NOT required as part of the workshop, and one will NOT be provided as part of your workshop registration fee.

This workshop runs Oct 6 (8:30am - 5:00pm), Oct 7 (8:30am - 5:00pm), Oct 8 (8:30am - 1:00pm).

Register today online.

Mark it on your calendar! Power Workshops begins October 6, 2008!

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