Introduzione

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.

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.

Obiettivi del corso

After completing this course, students will be able to:

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

Prerequisiti

In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:

Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality

Working knowledge of Transact-SQL

Working knowledge of relational databases

Some experience with database design

Struttura del Corso

MODULE 1: SQL Server Security

This module describes SQL Server security models, logins, users, partially contained databases, and cross-server authorization.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

SQL Server basic concepts

SQL Server connection authentication

User login authorization to databases

Partially contained databases

Authorization across servers

Create Logins

Create Database Users

Correct Application Login Issues

Configure Security for Restored Databases

Lab : Authenticating Users

MODULE 2: Assigning Server and Database Roles

Using roles simplifies the management of user permissions. With roles, you can control authenticated users’ access to system resources based on each user’s job function—rather than assigning permissions user-by-user, you can grant permissions to a role, then make users members of roles. Microsoft SQL Server includes support for security roles defined at server level and at database level.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

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

Verifying Security

Lab : Assigning server and database roles

MODULE 3: Authorizing Users to Access Resources

In this module, you will see how these object permissions are managed. In addition to access permissions on database objects, SQL Server provides the ability to determine which users are allowed to execute code, such as stored procedures and functions. In many cases, these permissions and the permissions on the database objects are best configured at the schema level rather than at the level of the individual object. Schema-based permission grants can simplify your security architecture. You will explore the granting of permissions at the schema level in the final lesson of this module.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Authorize User Access to Objects

Authorize Users to Execute Code

Configure Permissions at the Schema Level

Lab : Authorizing users to access resources

MODULE 4: Protecting Data with Encryption and Auditing

This module describes the available options for auditing in SQL Server, how to use and manage the SQL Server Audit feature, and how to implement encryption.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the options for auditing data access.

Implement SQL Server Audit.

Manage SQL Server Audit.

Describe and implement methods of encrypting data in SQL Server.

Implement encryption

Encrypt a Column as Always Encrypted

Encrypt a Database using TDE

Lab : Using Auditing and Encryption

MODULE 5: Recovery Models and Backup Strategies

In this module, you will consider how to create a strategy that is aligned with organizational needs, based on the available backup models, and the role of the transaction logs in maintaining database consistency.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe various Backup Strategies

Describe how Database Transaction Logs function

Plan SQL Server backup strategies

Configure Database Recovery Models

Lab : Understanding SQL Server recovery models

MODULE 6: Backing Up SQL Server Databases

In this module, you will learn how to apply various backup strategies.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Perform backups of SQL Server Databases and Transaction Logs

Manage Database Backups

Perform Database, Differential, and Transaction Log Backups

Perform a Partial Backup

Lab : Backing Up Databases

MODULE 7: Restoring SQL Server 2016 Databases

In this module, you will see how to restore user and system databases and how to implement point-in-time recovery.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain the Restore Process

Restore Databases Backup

Perform Advanced Restore Operations

Restring Database, Differential, and Transaction Log Backups

Perform a Point-In-Time Recovery

Performing a Piecemeal Restore

Lab : Restoring SQL Server Databases

MODULE 8: Automating SQL Server Management

This module describes how to use SQL Server Agent to automate jobs, how to configure security contexts for jobs, and how to implement multiserver jobs.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe methods for automating SQL Server Management

Configure jobs, job step types, and schedules

Manage SQL Server Agent jobs (Test and schedule a Job)

Configure Master And Target Servers

Multi-server Management

Lab : Automating SQL Server Management

MODULE 9: Configuring Security for SQL Server Agent

Other modules in this course have demonstrated the need to minimize the permissions that are granted to users, following the principle of “least privilege.” This means that users have only the permissions that they need to perform their tasks. The same logic applies to the granting of permissions to SQL Server Agent. Although it is easy to execute all jobs in the context of the SQL Server Agent service account, and to configure that account as an administrative account, a poor security environment would result from doing this. It is important to understand how to create a minimal privilege security environment for jobs that run in SQL Server Agent.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Explain SQL Server Agent security

Analyze Problems in SQL Server Agent

Configure credentials.

Configure Proxy Accounts

Configuring and testing the Security Context of a Job

Lab : Configuring Security for SQL Server Agent

MODULE 10: Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications

This module covers the configuration of Database Mail, alerts, and notifications for a SQL Server instance, and the configuration of alerts for Microsoft Azure SQL Database.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Monitor SQL Server Errors

Configure Database Mail

Configure operators, Alerts, and Notifications

Work with Alerts in Azure SQL Database

Lab : Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications

MODULE 11: Introduction to Managing SQL Server by using PowerShell

This module looks at how to use Windows PowerShell with Microsoft SQL Server. Businesses are constantly having to increase the efficiency and reliability of maintaining their IT infrastructure; with PowerShell, you can improve this efficiency and reliability by creating scripts to carry out tasks. PowerShell scripts can be tested and applied multiple times to multiple servers, saving your organization both time and money.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the benefits of PowerShell and its fundamental concepts

Configure SQL Server by using PowerShell

Administer and maintain SQL Server by using PowerShell

Manage an Azure SQL Database by using PowerShell

Lab : Using PowerShell to Manage SQL Server

MODULE 12: Tracing Access to SQL Server with Extended events

This module focuses on the architectural concepts, troubleshooting strategies and usage scenarios of Extended Events.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe Extended Events core concepts

Create and query Extended Events sessions

Lab : Extended Events

MODULE 13: Monitoring SQL Server

The Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine can run for long periods without the need for administrative attention. However, if you regularly monitor the activity that occurs on the database server, you can deal with potential issues before they arise. SQL Server provides a number of tools that you can use to monitor current activity and record details of previous activity. You need to become familiar with what each of the tools does and how to use them. It is easy to become overwhelmed by the volume of output that monitoring tools can provide, so you also need to learn techniques for analyzing their output.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Monitor current activity

Capture and manage performance data

Analyze collected performance data

Configure SQL Server Utility

Lab : Monitoring SQL Server

MODULE 14: Troubleshooting SQL Server

Database administrators working with Microsoft SQL Server need to adopt the important role of troubleshooter when issues arise—particularly if users of business-critical applications that rely on SQL Server databases are being prevented from working. It is important to have a solid methodology for resolving issues in general, and to be familiar with the most common issues that can arise when working with SQL Server systems.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe a troubleshooting methodology for SQL Server

Resolve service-related issues.

Resolve login and connectivity issues

Troubleshoot and Resolve a SQL Login Issue

Troubleshoot and Resolve a Service Issue

Troubleshoot and Resolve a Windows Login Issue

Troubleshoot and Resolve a Job Execution Issue

Troubleshoot and Resolve a Performance Issue

Lab : Troubleshooting Common Issues

MODULE 15: Importing and Exporting Data

In this module, you will explore these tools and techniques so that you can import and export data to and from SQL Server.

Lessons

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe tools and techniques for transferring data

Import and export Table Data

Use bcp and BULK INSERT to import data

Use data-tier applications to import and export database applications

Import and Excel Data Using the Import Wizard

Import a Delimited Text File Using bcp

Import a Delimited Text File using BULK INSERT

Create and Test an SSIS Package to Extract Data

Deploy a Data-Tier Application

Lab : Importing and Exporting Data