Administering a SQL Database

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

Lessons

Authenticating Connections to SQL Server

Authorizing Logins to Connect to databases

Authorization Across Servers

Partially Contained Databases

Lab 1: SQL Server Security

Authenticating Connections to SQL Server

Authorizing Connections to databases

Authorization across server instances

Authorizing Connections to databases

This module explains how to use roles at the server and database level to manage user permissions.

Lessons

Working with Server Roles

Working with Fixed Database Roles

User-Defined Database Roles

Lab 1: Assigning Server and Database Roles

Using Server Roles

Using Database Roles

Using User-defined Database Roles & Application Roles

This module explains how to authorize users to access server and database roles. It also describes how to manage permissions at different levels in a SQL Server instance.

Lessons

Authorizing User Access to Objects

Authorizing Users to Execute Code

Configuring Permissions at the Schema Level

Lab 1: Authorizing Users to Access Resources

Assigning Fixed and User-Defined Server Roles

Managing Database Roles and Users

Configure Permissions at the Schema Level

This module describes the available options for auditing and how to manage audit features. It also describes how to configure and implement data encryption.

Lessons

Options for auditing data access in SQL Server

Implementing SQL Server Audit

Managing SQL Server Audit

Protecting Data with Encryption

Lab 1: Using Auditing and Encryption

Auditing with Temporal Tables

Using SQL Server Audit

View Audit Output

Using Dynamic Data Masking

In this module, you will learn how to use the available backup features for databases and transaction logs to create backup strategies.

Lessons

Understanding Backup Strategies

SQL Server Transaction Logs

Planning Backup Strategies

Lab 1: Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models

Backup Databases

Transaction Log Backups

Shrinking a database

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

Lessons

Backing Up Databases and Transaction Logs

Managing Database Backups

Advanced Database Options

Lab 1: Backing Up Databases

Backing Up Databases

Verifying Backups

Using Advanced Backup Features

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

Lessons

Understanding the Restore Process

Restoring Databases

Advanced Restore Scenarios

Point-in-Time Recovery

Lab 1: Restoring SQL Server Databases

Determining the order of restores

Restoring databases

Restore encrypted backup

Point-in-Time restore

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

Lessons

Automating SQL Server management

Working with SQL Server Agent

Managing SQL Server Agent Jobs

Multi-server Management

Lab 1: Automating SQL Server Management

Using SQL Server Agent

Scripting SQL Server Agent jobs

Viewing job history

Multimaster management

This module explains how to configure SQL Server Agent to use a minimal privilege security environment and how to use credentials and proxy accounts to run jobs securely.

Lessons

Understanding SQL Server Agent Security

Configuring Credentials

Configuring Proxy Accounts

Lab 1: Configuring SQL Server Agent

Assigning a security context to job steps

Create credentials

Create a proxy account

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

Monitoring SQL Server Errors

Configuring Database Mail

Operators, Alerts, and Notifications

Alerts in Azure SQL Database

Lab 1: Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications

Working with Database Engine Error Logs

Configuring Database Mail

Configure Operators and Alerts

Configuring Alerts in Azure SQL Database (Optional)

This module explains how to use Windows PowerShell with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. It also describes how to improve efficiency and reliability by scripting tasks and jobs.

Lessons

Getting Started with Windows PowerShell

Configure SQL Server using PowerShell

Administer and Maintain SQL Server with PowerShell

Managing Azure SQL Databases using PowerShell

Lab 1: Using PowerShell to Manage SQL Server

Exploring SQL Server Management Objects (SMOs)

Configure database and Instance features with PowerShell

Manage logins and backups with PowerShell

Create an Azure SQL Database with PowerShell