20764B: Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure

Module 1: Authenticating and Authorizing Users

This module introduces SQL Server security models, logins, and users.

Lessons

• Authenticating connections to SQL Server
  
• Authorization across servers
  
• Authorizing logins to access databases
  
• Partially contained databases
  
  

Module 2: Assigning Server and Database Roles

This module introduces fixed server roles, user-defined server roles, fixed database roles, and user-defined database roles.

Lessons

• Working with server roles
  
• Creating user-defined database roles
  
• Working with Fixed database roles
  
  

Module 3: Authorizing Users to Access Resources

This module describes permissions and the assignment of permissions.

Lessons

• Authorizing users to execute code
  
• Authorizing user access to objects
  
• Configuring permissions at the schema level
  
  

Module 4: Protecting Data with Encryption and Auditing

This module describes SQL Server Audit.

Lessons

• Options for auditing data access in SQL Server
  
• Managing SQL Server audit
  
• Implementing SQL Server audit
  
• Protecting data with encryption
  
  

Module 5: SQL Server Recovery Models

This module introduces the concept of the transaction log and SQL Server recovery models. It also describes the different backup strategies available with SQL Server.

Lessons

• Backup strategies
  
• Planning a SQL Server backup strategy
  
• Understanding SQL Server transaction login
  

Module 6: Backup of SQL Server Databases

This module explains SQL Server Backup and the backup types

Lessons

• Backing up databases and transaction logs
  
• Working with backup options
  
• Managing database backups
  
  

Module 7: Restoring SQL Server Databases

This module describes the restoration of databases.

Lessons

• Understanding the restore process
  
• Working with point-in-time recovery
  
• Restoring databases
  
• Restoring system databases and individual files
  
  

Module 8: Automating SQL Server Management

This module explains the use of SQL Server Agent for automation. It also describes the benefits of using master and target servers to centralize the administration of automation.

Lessons

• Automating SQL Server management
  
• Managing SQL Server agent jobs
  
• Working with SQL Server agent
  
• Multi-server management
  
  

Module 9: Configuring Security for SQL Server Agent

This module explains the considerations for SQL Server Agent security, including proxy accounts and credentials.

Lessons

• Understanding SQL Server Agent Security
  
• Configuring proxy accounts
  
• Configuring credentials
  
  

Module 10: Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications

This module explains the configuration of database mail, alerts and notifications.

Lessons

• Configuration of database mail
  
• Configuring operators, alerts, and notifications
  
• Monitoring SQL Server errors
  
• Alerts in Azure SQL database
  
  

Module 11: Introduction to Managing SQL Server by using PowerShell

This module describes PowerShell for SQL Server.

Lessons

• Configuring SQL Server using PowerShell
  
• Maintaining the SQL Server environment using PowerShell
  
• Managing Azure SQL Server databases using PowerShell
  
• Administering SQL Server using PowerShell
  
  

Module 12: Tracing Access to SQL Server

This module explains how to use SQL Profiler and SQL Trace stored procedures to capture information about SQL Server. The module also describes how to use Distributed Replay to capture trace information from multiple servers, and how to monitor locking.

Lessons

• Monitoring locks
  
• Distributed replay
  
• Capturing activity using SQL Server profiler
  
• Working with tracing options
  
• Improving performance with the database engine tuning advisor
  
  

Module 13: Monitoring SQL Server

This module explains the use of Distributed Management Views to monitor SQL Server. It also describes configuration of data collection and the SQL Server Utility.

Lessons

• Monitoring activity
  
• SQL Server utility
  
• Capturing and managing performance data
  
• Analyzing collected performance data
  
  

Module 14: Troubleshooting SQL Server

This module introduces the SQL Server troubleshooting methodology and discusses the common issues arises when working with SQL Server systems.

Lessons

• SQL Server troubleshooting methodology
  
• Troubleshooting common issues
  
• Resolving service related issues
  
• Resolving login and connectivity issues
  
  

Module 15: Importing and Exporting Data

This module explains the use of the import/export wizards and explains how they relate to SSIS.

Lessons

• Transferring data to/from SQL Server
  
• Importing and exporting table data
  
• Using BCP and BULK INSERT to import data
  
• Deploying and upgrading data-tier applications