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Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions
Course Description
Overview
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to administer a SQL Server database infrastructure for cloud, on-premises and hybrid relational databases and who work with the Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings. Additionally, it will be of use to individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL-based relational databases.Objectives
- Plan, deploy and configure Azure SQL offerings
- Monitor database performance and tune a database and queries for optimum performance
- Plan and configure a High Availability Solution
Audience
Prerequisites
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Successful Azure Database Administrators start this role with professional experience in database management and technical knowledge of cloud technologies.
Specifically:
- Working with, maintaining, and developing with SQL Server
- Experience with Azure, such as deploying and managing resources
- MOC-AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
- MOC-DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals
Topics
- Prepare to maintain SQL databases on Azure
- Understand the role of Azure Database Administrator as it fits in with other data platform roles
- Be able to describe the key differences between the SQL Server-based database options
- Describe other features for Azure SQL platforms available
- Deploy IaaS solutions with Azure SQL
- Deploy PaaS solutions with Azure SQL
- Evaluate strategies for migrating to Azure SQL
- Migrate SQL workloads to Azure SQL Databases
- Migrate SQL workloads to Azure Managed Instances
- Lab : Provision SQL Server on an Azure Virtual Machine
- Explore the Azure Portal
- Deploy a SQL Server on an Azure Virtual Machine
- Connect to SQL Server on an Azure Virtual Machine
- Lab : Provision an Azure SQL Database
- Create a Virtual Network
- Deploy an Azure SQL Database
- Connect to an Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Studio
- Query an Azure SQL Database using SQL Notebook
- Explore the basics of SQL Server in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering
- Understand PaaS provisioning and deployment options
- Evaluate migration scenarios to SQL Managed Instance and SQL Database
- Evaluate and implement a strategy for moving a database to Azure
- Configure database authentication and authorization
- Protect data in-transit and at rest
- Implement compliance controls for sensitive data
- Lab : Configure a server-based firewall rule using the Azure portal
- Configure Azure SQL Database firewall rules
- Validate access
- Lab : Authorize Access to Azure SQL Database with Azure Active • Directory
- Create users
- Manage access to database objects
- Validate access
- Lab : Enable Microsoft Defender for SQL and Data Classification
- Enable Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL Database
- Configure Data Classification for Azure SQL Database
- Understand the differences between Windows, SQL Server and Azure Active Directory Authentication
- Describe and configure both data-at-rest encryption solutions as well as data-in-transit encryption
- Implement a data sensitivity solution
- Describe performance monitoring
- Configure SQL Server resources for optimal performance
- Configure databases for optimal performance
- Lab : Isolate performance problems through monitoring
- Review CPU utilization in Azure portal
- Identify high CPU queries
- Lab : Detect and correct fragmentation issues
- Investigate index fragmentation
- Rebuild fragmented indexes
- Validate performance improvements
- Monitor activity and compare to a baseline
- Identify major causes of performance problems
- Configure resources for optimal performance
- Configure a user database for optimal performance
- Explore query performance optimization
- Explore performance-based database design
- Evaluate performance improvements
- Lab : Identify database design issues
- Examine the query and identify the problem
- Identify ways to fix the warning message
- Improve the code
- Lab : Identify and resolve blocking issues
- Run blocked queries report
- Enable Read Commit Snapshot isolation level
- Evaluate performance improvements
- Lab : Isolate problem areas in poorly performing queries in a SQL Database
- Generate actual execution plan
- Resolve a suboptimal query plan
- Use Query Store to detect and handle regression
- Examine Top Resource Consuming Queries report
- Force a better execution plan
- Use query hints to impact performance
- Analyze query plans and identify problem areas
- Evaluate potential query improvements using Query Store
- Review table and index design
- Determine whether query or design changes have had a positive effect
- Automate deployment of database resources
- Create and manage SQL Agent jobs
- Manage Azure PaaS tasks using automation
- Lab : Deploy an automation runbook to automatically rebuild indexes
- Create an Automation Account
- Connect to an existing Azure SQL Database
- Configure Automation Account assets
- Create a PowerShell runbook
- Create a schedule for a runbook
- Lab : Deploy Azure SQL Database using an Azure Resource Manager template
- Explore Azure Resource Manager template
- Lab : Create a CPU status alert for a SQL Server
- Create an alert when a CPU exceeds an average of 80 percent
- Deploy resources using automated deployment scripts
- Create scheduled tasks
- Create notifications and alerts
- Configure automation for PaaS services
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategies
- IaaS Platform and Database Tools for HADR
- PaaS Platform and Database Tools for HADR
- Database Backup and Recovery
- Lab : Backup to URL and Restore from URL
- Create a credential
- Backup to URL
- Validate backup through Azure CLI and Storage Explorer
- Restore from URL
- Lab : Configure geo-replication for Azure SQL Database
- Enable geo-replication
- Failover to a secondary region
- The difference between recovery time and recovery point objectives
- The available HADR options for both IaaS and PaaS
- The considerations for planning and configuring HADR solutions including how backup and restore fi
- The factors that comprise a HADR strategy
- How to configure a high availability solution via a hands-on lab
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