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

• 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