Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure

Enhance your expertise in managing SQL Server databases with our 'Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure' course, designed for aspiring database administrators and developers seeking to master SQL database management and security techniques.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Authenticate and authorize users efficiently.

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Protect data with advanced encryption and auditing techniques.

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Automate and optimize database management processes.

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Troubleshoot and monitor SQL Server infrastructure effectively.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Database Administrators
  • SQL Developers
  • IT Professionals
  • System Engineers

Description

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. Additional it will be of use to individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Authenticating and Authorizing Users

  1. Authenticating connections to SQL Server

  2. Authorizing logins to access databases

  3. Authorization across servers

  4. Partially contained databases

Module 2: Assigning Server and Database Roles

  1. Working with server roles

  2. Working with Fixed database roles

  3. Creating user-defined database roles

Module 3: Authorizing Users to Access Resources

  1. Authorizing user access to objects

  2. Authorizing users to execute code

  3. Configuring permissions at the schema level

Module 4: Protecting Data with Encryption and Auditing

  1. Options for auditing data access in SQL Server

  2. Implementing SQL Server audit

  3. Managing SQL Server audit

  4. Protecting data with encryption

Module 5: SQL Server Recovery Models

  1. Backup strategies

  2. Understanding SQL Server transaction login

  3. Planning a SQL Server backup strategy

Module 6: Backup of SQL Server Databases

  1. Backing up databases and transaction logs

  2. Managing database backups

  3. Working with backup options

Module 7: Restoring SQL Server Databases

  1. Understanding the restore process

  2. Restoring databases

  3. Working with point-in-time recovery

  4. Restoring system databases and individual files

Module 8: Automating SQL Server Management

  1. Automating SQL Server management

  2. Working with SQL Server agent

  3. Managing SQL Server agent jobs

  4. Multi-server management

Module 9: Configuring Security for SQL Server Agent

  1. Understanding SQL Server Agent Security

  2. Configuring credentials

  3. Configuring proxy accounts

Module 10: Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications

  1. Configuration of database mail

  2. Monitoring SQL Server errors

  3. Configuring operators, alerts, and notifications

  4. Alerts in Azure SQL database

Module 11: Introduction to Managing SQL Server by using PowerShell

  1. Configure SQL Server using PowerShell

  2. Administer SQL Server using PowerShell

  3. Maintain the SQL Server environment using PowerShell

  4. Managing Azure SQL Server databases using PowerShell

Module 12: Tracing Access to SQL Server

  1. Capturing activity using SQL Server profiler

  2. Improving performance with the database engine tuning advisor

  3. Working with tracing options

  4. Distributed replay

  5. Monitoring locks

Module 13: Monitoring SQL Server

  1. Monitoring activity

  2. Capturing and managing performance data

  3. Analyzing collected performance data

  4. SQL Server utility

Module 14: Troubleshooting SQL Server

  1. SQL Server troubleshooting methodology

  2. Resolving service related issues

  3. Resolving login and connectivity issues

  4. Troubleshooting common issues

Module 15: Importing and Exporting Data

  1. Transferring data to/from SQL Server

  2. Importing and exporting table data

  3. Using BCP and BULK INSERT to import data

  4. Deploying and upgrading data-tier applications

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