Disaster Recovery - 2 day Master Class

Location: Microsoft Auditorium, EPDC2, Leopardstown
Date: July 7th & 8th 2010
Cost: €1,299

Delivered by internationally acclaimed SQL gurus, Paul S Randal & Kimberly L Tripp, this level 400 course is suited to people who have a number of years hands-on experience with the technologies and concepts or to those who have already completed a level 300 course in this area. It is a natural extension on the material covered in the SQL Immersion syllabus. The course will be delivered over the course of two intense days.

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Disasters happen - plain and simple. When disaster strikes a database you're responsible for, are you going to be able recover within the down-time and/or data-loss limits your company requires? This workshop isn't about how to achieve high-availability, it's about how to prevent or overcome the obstacles you're likely to hit when trying to recover from a disaster such as not having the right backups, not having valid backups, or not having any backups! How do you come up with a good and reliable backup strategy? How can you architect a database to allow easier recovery? What can you do to limit the damage a disaster causes? In this demo-heavy workshop, you will see a ton of tips, tricks, and techniques that have been learned from years of experience helping customers plan for and recover from disasters.

Part 1 - Fundamentals

  • M1: Internals
    • Introduction to database structures
    • Introduction to logging and recovery
    • How recovery models affect disaster recovery
  • M2: Data Storage
    • Choosing a RAID level
    • Storage tuning for fast recovery

Part 2 - Strategy

  • M3: Planning a disaster recovery strategy
    • Requirements and limitations
    • Testing
  • M4: Architecting for recoverability
    • Monitoring for corruption
    • Partial database availability
    • Planning a backup strategy
    • Database snapshots
    • Utilizing high-availability technologies

Part 3 - Practicalities

  • M5: Recovering from a disaster with backups
    • Tail-of-the-log backups
    • Determining restore sequence
    • Point-in-time restore
    • Piecemeal restore
    • System databases
  • M6: Recovering from a disaster without backups
    • Interpreting DBCC CHECKDB output
    • Using database repair
    • Using EMERGENCY mode
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Speakers

  • Paul S. Randal

    Paul S. Randal

    In 2007, after 8.5 years on the SQL Server team, Paul left Microsoft to join his wife, Kimberly Tripp, running SQLskills.com and pursuing his passion for presenting and consulting.

  • Kimberly L. Tripp

    Kimberly L. Tripp

    Kimberly is a writer/editor for SQL Server Magazine; was a founding writer for T-SQL Solutions magazine; was a technical contributor for the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit.

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  • Prodata SQL Centre of Excellence
  • Microsoft

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