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SQL Server 2000 Database Administration

  • ·Skill level: 200-500
  • ·Run Time: 20+ hours (103 videos)
  • ·CourseId: 148


This course is a soup-to-nuts course that will teach you how to choose your edition, install, configure and manage any edition of SQL Server 2000. You'll learn the details of security, backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and server automation using jobs and database maintenance tasks. Also included are overviews of using Integration Services and much more!

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Scott Whigham

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott's full bio can be found here)

People who have had some exposure to SQL Server but who have not undergone a full SQL Server 2000 DBA class. This is not a beginner-level course nor is an advanced course; it is intended for the beginner-to-intermediate and/or someone coming from another system (such as Oracle, DB2, or MySQL) who wants to learn how to administer a SQL Server.
While a true beginner could take this course, it is actually recommended that you have at least 30 days experience working with SQL Server (or equivalent work experience with another database system) prior to taking this course.
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  • Will this course help me pass a certification exam? Absolutely. We have a lot of members who have successfully earned Microsoft certifications with the help of our training materials. We do not, however, consider ourselves a "certification training company"; we are a "real world training company" and we think there is an important difference between the two. Read more

Table of Contents

This video training course is separated into chapters. If you'd like to view every video on a single page, you want The Big List.

Chapter 1 - Installing, Deploying, and Upgrading to SQL Server 2000

Abstract: This chapter is designed to help you install and configure your SQL Server 2000 installation including applying service packs and keeping your server up-to-date with the latest security patches and hotfixes. You'll learn about configuring all the options during the graphical setup as well as using the automated setup, the Service Pack Installations and more. Also included are best practices and performance tips for installing SQL Server 2000
Number of Videos: 10
Total Run Time: 1 hour and 40 minutes

Chapter 2 - Configuration: Services, Instances, Network Libraries, Port Numbers and More

Abstract: SQL Server administrators need to know the innermost workings of SQL Server and this set of videos teaches just that. The videos in this series will teach you about the network libraries that SQL Server uses, configuring the SQL Server system including memory and CPU settings, and even how to change SQL Server's TCP/IP port - all of which are essential to understanding SQL Server. You'll also get great insight into the services that make up SQL Server and how things work "under the covers"
Number of Videos: 4
Total Run Time: 51 minutes

Chapter 3 - Administration: Tools, Utilities and Common Tasks

Abstract: This is an essential set of videos for all administrators. In this set of videos you'll learn all about the most common tools and how to perform common tasks. This chapter discusses the Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, Profiler, tools in the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit and many other helpful tools such as snap-ins for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). This set of videos also features DOS commands and utilities, batch-file writing, and scripting topics.
Number of Videos: 16
Total Run Time: 3 hours and 22 minutes

Chapter 4 - Working with SQL Server Databases: Creation, Management and Best Practices

Abstract: This chapter discusses the various ways to create databases, how to manage your database files by expanding or shrinking SQL Server's database files, how filegroups work, and Best Practices for SQL Server databases
Number of Videos: 9
Total Run Time: 1 hour and 49 minutes

Chapter 5 - SQL Server Security

Abstract: Learn everything about authentication modes, server roles, what the term "fixed" means when discussing fixed server and fixed database roles, how users and schemas work and much more in this excellent set of videos on SQL Server security
Number of Videos: 13
Total Run Time: 2 hours and 31 minutes

Chapter 6 - SQL Server Architecture: System Databases, System Tables, and Internals

Abstract: The more you know about how things work in SQL Server, the better prepared you are to make intelligent design and management choices. Watch this chapter for information on how the internals of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 influence your design making
Number of Videos: 3
Total Run Time: 40 minutes

Chapter 7 - T-SQL Basics: Queries, Datatypes, Collations and Unicode, and more

Abstract: This chapter covers many internal storage and retrieval techniques including collations, how datatypes are stored and compared, and working with the internal datatypes
Number of Videos: 22
Total Run Time: 4 hours and 6 minutes

Chapter 8 - TSQL Programming: Stored Procedures, Variables, Functions and Triggers

Abstract: This chapter is all about stored procedure programming, Error Handling, and passing resultsets to the client by various means as well as writing triggers (AFTER/INSTEAD OF), functions (scalar and table-valued UDFs), and TSQL variables.
Number of Videos: 7
Total Run Time: 1 hour and 38 minutes

Chapter 9 - SQL Server Architecture: Indexes, Internals, and Query Plans

Abstract: This SQL Server 2000 chapter is all about performance tuning your SQL Server. The more you know about how SQL Server does what it does, the better prepared you are to make smart design decisions. Watch these videos for a solid foundation of the how and why in SQL Server
Number of Videos: 3
Total Run Time: 40 minutes

Chapter 10 - Performance Tuning SQL Server - Profiler, Tracing and Performance Monitoring

Abstract: This SQL Server chapter is all about performance tuning your SQL Server. The more you know about how SQL Server does what it does, the better prepared you are to make smart design decisions. Watch these videos for a solid foundation of the "how and why" things work the way they do in SQL Server. This set of videos teaches you about using SQL Profiler, tracing your SQL Server for performance, and using the Performance Monitor.
Number of Videos: 4
Total Run Time: 40 minutes

Chapter 11 - Backup, Recovery, Log Shipping and More - Disaster Recovery for SQL Server 2000

Abstract: This is a chapter on taking backups, applying backups (restoring backups), working with standby servers and all the in-between things that need to happen in a real-life situation. There's lots of good, solid info packed into these videos
Number of Videos: 3
Total Run Time: 42 minutes

Chapter 12 - Automating SQL Server 2000 with the SQL Server Agent

Abstract: SQL Servers around the world run jobs at scheduled times - it's just the way of the world. This chapter will teach you how to create jobs, how to manage alerts, and how the SQL Server Agent works. This is an important set of videos for any SQL Server DBA
Number of Videos: 2
Total Run Time: 27 minutes

Chapter 13 - How to Move and Copy Databases in SQL Server 2000

Abstract: When you need to copy or move a database in SQL Server, you have many choices. This chapter talks about all the options, when to use each one, and some best practices for backup and recovery as well as attaching and detaching databases
Number of Videos: 1
Total Run Time: 6 minutes

Chapter 14 - Replication in SQL Server 2000

Abstract: SQL Server replication is a very popular choice for everything from synchronizing small, handheld devices with SQL Server CE installed to doing complete disaster recovery solutions. This chapter of videos will help you understand SQL replication and will walk you through setting it up, creating distributors, managing publications and subscribing.
Number of Videos: 6
Total Run Time: 1 hour and 22 minutes

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