This five-day instructor-led course provides students who administer and maintain SQL Server databases with the knowledge and skills to administer a SQL server database infrastructure. Additionally, it will be of use to individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.
Objectives
Course Objectives
Authenticate and authorize users
Assign server and database roles
Authorize users to access resources
Protect data with encryption and auditing
Describe recovery models and backup strategies
Backup SQL Server databases
Restore SQL Server databases
Automate database management
Configure security for the SQL Server agent
Manage alerts and notifications
Managing SQL Server using PowerShell
Trace access to SQL Server
Monitor a SQL Server infrastructure
Troubleshoot a SQL Server infrastructure
Import and export data
Target audience
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.
1 - SQL Server Security
Authenticating Connections to SQL Server
Authorizing Logins to Connect to databases
Authorization Across Servers
Partially Contained Databases
2 - Assigning Server and Database Roles
Working with server roles
Working with Fixed Database Roles
Assigning User-Defined Database Roles
3 - Authorizing Users to Access Resources
Describe and use server roles to manage server-level security.
Describe and use fixed database roles.
Use custom database roles and application roles to manage database-level security.
4 - Protecting Data with Encryption and Auditing
Options for auditing data access in SQL Server
Implementing SQL Server Audit
Managing SQL Server Audit
Protecting Data with Encryption
5 - Recovery Models and Backup Strategies
Understanding Backup Strategies
SQL Server Transaction Logs
Planning Backup Strategies
6 - Backing Up SQL Server Databases
Backing Up Databases and Transaction Logs
Managing Database Backups
Advanced Database Options
7 - Restoring SQL Server Databases
Understanding the Restore Process
Restoring Databases
Advanced Restore Scenarios
Point-in-Time Recovery
8 - Automating SQL Server Management
Automating SQL Server management
Working with SQL Server Agent
Managing SQL Server Agent Jobs
Multi-server Management
9 - Configuring Security for SQL Server Agent
Understanding SQL Server Agent Security
Configuring Credentials
Configuring Proxy Accounts
10 - Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications
Monitoring SQL Server Errors
Configuring Database Mail
Operators, Alerts, and Notifications
Alerts in Azure SQL Database
11 - Introduction to Managing SQL Server by using PowerShell
Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
Configure SQL Server using PowerShell
Administer and Maintain SQL Server with PowerShell
Managing Azure SQL Databases using PowerShell
12 - Tracing Access to SQL Server with Extended events
Extended Events Core Concepts
Working with Extended Events
13 - Monitoring SQL Server
Monitoring activity
Capturing and Managing Performance Data
Analyzing Collected Performance Data
SQL Server Utility
14 - Troubleshooting SQL Server
A Trouble Shooting Methodology for SQL Server
Resolving Service Related Issues
Resolving Connectivity and Log-in issues
15 - Importing and Exporting Data
Transferring Data to and from SQL Server
Importing and Exporting Table Data
Using bcp and BULK INSERT to Import Data
Deploying and Upgrading Data-Tier Application
Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.
