Overview
Target Audience
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.
- Working knowledge of Transact-SQL. (equivalent knowledge to QATSQL and QATSQLPLUS)
- Working knowledge of relational databases.
- Some experience with database design.
Delegates will learn how to
- Design and implement SQL Instances
- Authenticate and authorize users
- Assign server and database roles
- Authorize users to access resources
- Protect data with encryption and auditing
- Describe recovery models and backup strategies
- Backup SQL Server databases
- Restore SQL Server databases
- Automate database management
- Configure security for the SQL Server agent
- Manage alerts and notifications
- Manage on-going SQL Database maintenance
- Securing SQL data
Outline
- Introduction to the SQL Server Platform
- Overview of SQL Server Architecture
- Lab A: Review and record SQL Server Setup
- Lab B: Designing instance requirements
- Considerations for Installing SQL Server
- tempdb Files
- Installing SQL Server
- Automating Installation
- Upgrading SQL Server
- LAB A: Installing SQL Server
- LAB B: Unattended install
- Introduction to Data Storage with SQL Server
- Managing Storage for System Databases
- Managing Storage for User Databases
- Moving and Copying Database Files
- SQL Server Transaction logs
- Ensuring database integrity
- Maintaining indexes
- LAB A: Create and alter a database
- LAB B: Reconfigure storage for a database
- LAB C: Managing transaction logs
- LAB D: Review index fragmentation
- Backup Types
- Managing Database Backups
- Advanced Database Options
- Understanding the Restore Process
- Restoring Databases
- Advanced Restore Scenarios
- Point-in-time Recovery
- LAB A: Backup a database and log
- LAB B: Review backups made
- LAB C: Restore a corrupt database
- LAB D: Design a backup strategy
- Authenticating Connections to SQL Server
- Authorizing Logins to Connect to Databases
- Authorization Across Servers
- Partially Contained Databases
- LAB A: Create logins for a SQL instance
- LAB B: Create users
- LAB C: Add a linked server
- LAB D: Add contained users
- Working with Server Roles
- Working with Fixed Database Roles
- User-Defined Database Roles
- LAB A: Maintain server roles
- LAB B: Assigning database roles
- LAB C: Use an application role
- Authorizing User Access to Objects
- Authorizing Users to Execute Code
- Configuring Permissions at the Schema Level
- LAB A: Securing database objects
- LAB B: Using schemas
- Protecting at row and column levels
- Column level permissions
- Row-level security
- Dynamic data masking
- Auditing data changes
- Auditing with Triggers
- Auditing with Temporal Tables
- Managing SQL Server Audit
- Introduction to SQL Server Audit
- Defining a Server Audit
- Creating Server and database Audit Specifications
- Audit-Related Dynamic Management Views and System Views
- Custom Audit Events
- Protecting Data with Encryption
- Transparent Data Encryption
- Moving Encrypted Databases
- Introduction to Always Encrypted
- Adding encryption keys
- Implementing always encrypted
- LAB A: Row and column security
- LAB B: Implement a temporal table
- LAB C: Auditing table operations
- LAB D: Implement transparent database encryption
- LAB E: Using Always Encrypted
- Automating SQL Server Management
- Understanding SQL Server Agent Security
- Overview of Security in SQL Server Agent
- SQL Server Agent Roles
- Assigning Security Contexts to SQL Server Agent Job Steps
- Overview of database mail
- Managing Credentials
- Managing Proxy Accounts
- Configuring Jobs
- Configuring Operators
- Configuring Alerts
- Configuring multi-server jobs
- LAB A: SQL Agent and Database Mail setup
- LAB B: Credentials and proxies
- LAB C: Implementing jobs
- LAB D: Implementing alerts
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