This course provides IT professionals with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. The course focuses on teaching features and tools for maintaining databases, including installing and configuring SQL Server, managing databases and files, disaster recovery, security management, automating administrative tasks, implementing replication, maintaining high availability, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting issues. The course is split into two parts, with Part 1 covering the basics of installation, configuration, backup strategies and security, and Part 2 focusing on more advanced topics like replication, high availability, monitoring, and performance tuning.