Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• 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

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

The audience for this course is data professionals managing data and databases who want to learn about administering the data platform technologies that are available on Microsoft Azure. This course is also valuable for data architects and application developers who need to understand what technologies are available for the data platform with Azure and how to work with those technologies through applications. Job role: Database Administrator Preparation for exam: DP-300 Features: none
 

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
At a minimum, you should know the information in the following online training before attending the course:
• MOC-AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
• MOC-DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals

Introduction to Azure Database Administration Prepare to maintain SQL databases on Azure

• Introduction
• Describe Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform roles
• Understand SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine
• Design Azure SQL Database for cloud-native applications
• Explore Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
• Knowledge check

Plan and Implement Data Platform Resources

• 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

Implement a Secure Environment for a Database Service Configure database authentication and authorization

• Introduction
• Describe Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID
• Describe authentication and identities
• Describe Security Principals
• Describe database and object permissions
• Identify authentication and authorization failures
• Exercise: Authorize Access to Azure SQL Database with Microsoft Entra ID1
• Knowledge check

Protect data in-transit and at rest Knowledge check Introduction Knowledge check Explore Transparent Data Encryption Knowledge check Configure server and database firewall rules Knowledge check Explain object encryption and secure enclaves Knowledge check Enable encrypted connections Knowledge check Describe SQL injection Knowledge check Understand Azure Key Vault Knowledge check Exercise: Configure a server-based firewall rule using the Azure portal Implement compliance controls for sensitive data

• Introduction
• Explore data classification
• Explore server and database audit
• Implement Dynamic Data Masking
• Implement Row Level security
• Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL
• Explore Azure SQL Database Ledger
• Implement Azure Purview
• Exercise: Enable Microsoft Defender for SQL and Data Classification

Monitor and Optimize Operational Resources Describe performance monitoring

• Describe performance monitoring tools7 min
• Describe critical performance metrics10 min
• Establish baseline metrics8 min
• Explore extended events12 min
• Describe Azure SQL Insights8 min
• Explore Query Performance Insight5 min
• Exercise: Isolate problems with monitoring

Configure SQL Server resources for optimal performance

• Introduction
• Explain how to optimize Azure storage for SQL Server virtual machines
• Describe virtual machine resizing
• Optimize database storage
• Control SQL Server resources
• Knowledge check

Configure databases for optimal performance

• Introduction
• Explore database maintenance checks
• Describe database scoped configuration options
• Describe automatic tuning
• Describe intelligent query processing
• Exercise: Detect and correct fragmentation issues
• Knowledge check

Optimize Query Performance Explore query performance optimization

• Introduction
• Understand query plans
• Explain estimated and actual query plans
• Describe dynamic management views and functions
• Explore Query Store
• Identify problematic query plans
• Describe blocking and locking
• Exercise: Identify and resolve blocking issues
• Knowledge check

Explore performance-based database design

• Introduction
• Describe normalization
• Choose appropriate data types
• Design indexes
• Exercise: Identify database design issues
• Knowledge check

Evaluate performance improvements

• Introduction
• Describe wait statistics
• Tune and maintain indexes
• Understand query hints
• Exercise: Isolate problem areas in poorly performing queries

Automate database tasks Automate deployment of database resources

• Introduction
• Describe deployment models in Azure
• Automate deployment by using Azure Resource Manager templates and Bicep
• Automate deployment by using PowerShell
• Automate deployment by using Azure CLI
• Exercise: Deploy an Azure SQL Database using an Azure Resource Manager template
• Knowledge check

Create and manage SQL Agent jobs

• Introduction
• Create a SQL Server maintenance plan
• Describe task status notifications
• Knowledge check
• Exercise: Create a CPU status alert for a SQL Server

Manage Azure PaaS tasks using automation

• Introduction
• Explore Elastic jobs
• Understand Azure Automation
• Build an automation runbook
• Automate database workflows by using Logic Apps
• Monitor automated tasks
• Exercise: Deploy an automation runbook to automatically rebuild indexes
• Knowledge check

Plan and Implement a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies

• Introduction
• Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
• Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
• Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
• Describe high availability and disaster recovery options for PaaS deployments
• Explore an IaaS high availability and disaster recovery solution
• Describe hybrid solutions
• Knowledge check

Explore IaaS and PaaS solutions for high availability and disaster recovery

• Introduction
• Describe failover clusters in Windows Server
• Configure Always-on availability groups
• Describe temporal tables in Azure SQL Database
• Describe active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database
• Explore auto-failover groups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Exercise: Configure geo replication for Azure SQL Database

Back up and restore databases

• Introduction
• Back up and restore SQL Server running on Azure virtual machines
• Back up a SQL Server virtual machine
• Back up and restore a database using Azure SQL Database
• Exercise: Backup to URL
• Knowledge check