In this instructor-led, online training course, students will learn the knowledge and skills to administer a SQL server database infrastructure. Students will be taught how to authenticate and authorize users, protect data with encryption and auditing, backup and restore SQL Server, configure security for the SQL Server agent, and more.
Intermediate
70-764: Administering a SQL Server 2016 Database Infrastructure
Curriculum
- 14 Sections
- 49 Lessons
- 24h Duration
Configuring auditing
5 Lessons
- Configure an audit on SQL Server
- Query the SQL Server audit log
- Manage a SQL Server audit
- Configure an Azure SQL database audit
- Analyze audit logs and reports from Azure SQL database
Developing a backup strategy
6 Lessons
- Configure database recovery models
- Managing transaction log backups
- Back up very large databases
- Configure alerting for failed backups
- Back up databases to Azure
- Configure backup automation
Monitoring database activity
4 Lessons
- Monitor current sessions
- Identify sessions that cause blocking activity
- Identify sessions that consume tempdb resources
- Configure the data collector
Monitoring Queries
4 Lessons
- Manage the Query Store
- Configure extended events and trace events
- Identify problematic execution plans
- Troubleshoot server health using extended events
Managing indexes
4 Lessons
- Identify and repair index fragmentation
- Identify and create missing indexes
- Identify and drop underutilized indexes
- Manage existing columnstore indexes
Managing statistics
3 Lessons
- Identify and correct outdated statistics
- Implement auto update statistics
- Implement statistics for large tables
Monitoring queries
7 Lessons
- Create and manage operators
- Create and manage SQL Agent alerts
- Define custom alert actions and failure actions
- Configure database mail
- Configure Policy-Based Management
- Identify available space on data volumes
- Identify the cause of performance degradation
Implement log shipping
2 Lessons
- Configure log shipping
- Monitor log shipping
Implement AlwaysOn availability groups
5 Lessons
- Configure Windows clustering
- Create an availability group
- Configure read-only routing
- Manage failover
- Create distributed availability groups
Implement failover cluster instances
2 Lessons
- Manage shared disks
- Configure cluster shared volumes (CSV)
Monitoring database activity
7 Lessons
- SQL edition capability map
- Replication definitions
- Publishing industry metaphor concepts
- What can be replicated?
- How replication works
- Replication use cases
- Typical transactional replication use case
