55316AC - Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure
Course Duration: 40 Hours
Delivery Methods: Classroom Training - Instructor Led or Online
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course will provide training in how to administer and maintain SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and other cloud-based SQL Server databases. IT professionals who work in environments where databases play a key role in their job will find this material useful. By using demonstrations and hands-on lab exercises, students will learn to carry out these important tasks. This course covers content that was in retired Microsoft Course 20764: Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The primary audience for this course is individuals who administer and maintain SQL Server databases. These individuals perform database administration and maintenance as their primary area of responsibility, or work in environments where databases play a key role in their primary job. The secondary audiences for this course are individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.
COURSE PREREQUISITES
- Experience using applications on Windows Servers
- Experience working with SQL Server or another RDMS.
Course Outline
- Authenticating Connections to SQL Server
- Authorizing Logins to Connect to databases
- Authorization Across Servers
- Partially Contained Databases
- Lab: SQL Server Security
- Working with Server Roles
- Working with Fixed Database Roles
- User-Defined Database Roles
- Lab: Assigning Server and Database Roles
- Authorizing User Access to Objects
- Authorizing Users to Execute Code
- Configuring Permissions at the Schema Level
- Lab: Authorizing Users to Access Resources
- Options for auditing data access in SQL Server
- Implementing SQL Server Audit
- Managing SQL Server Audit
- Protecting Data with Encryption
- Lab: Using Auditing and Encryption
- Understanding Backup Strategies
- SQL Server Transaction Logs
- Planning Backup Strategies
- Lab: Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models
- Backing Up Databases and Transaction Logs
- Managing Database Backups
- Advanced Database Options
- Lab: Backing Up Databases
- Understanding the Restore Process
- Restoring Databases
- Advanced Restore Scenarios
- Point-in-Time Recovery
- Lab: Restoring SQL Server Databases
- Automating SQL Server management
- Working with SQL Server Agent
- Managing SQL Server Agent Jobs
- Multi-server Management
- Lab: Automating SQL Server Management
- Understanding SQL Server Agent Security
- Configuring Credentials
- Configuring Proxy Accounts
- Lab: Configuring SQL Server Agent
- Monitoring SQL Server Errors
- Configuring Database Mail
- Operators, Alerts, and Notifications
- Alerts in Azure SQL Database
- Lab: Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications
- Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
- Configure SQL Server using PowerShell
- Administer and Maintain SQL Server with PowerShell
- Managing Azure SQL Databases using PowerShell
- Lab: Using PowerShell to Manage SQL Server
- Lab: Using PowerShell to Manage SQL Server
- Extended Events Core Concepts
- Working with Extended Events
- Lab: Using SQL Server Extended Events
- Monitoring activity
- Capturing and Managing Performance Data
- Analyzing Collected Performance Data
- Lab: Monitoring SQL Server
- Applying a Troubleshooting Methodology
- Resolving Service-Related Issues
- Resolving Connectivity and Login issues
- Lab: Troubleshooting SQL Server
- Transferring Data to and from SQL Server
- Importing and Exporting Table Data
- Using BCP and BULK INSERT to Import Data
- Deploying Data-Tier Applications
- Lab: Importing and Exporting data
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