Overview
This 5-day course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database. This course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2014 product features and tools related to maintaining a database.
Note: This course is designed for participants who are interested in learning SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014. It covers the new features in SQL Server 2014, but also the important capabilities across the SQL Server data platform.
Prerequisites
Participants who wish to take up 20462 Administering Microsoft SQL Server Databases should meet the following prerequisites:
- Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality
- Working knowledge of Transact-SQL
- Working knowledge of relational databases
- Some experience with database design
Who Should Attend?
This course is recommended for individuals who administer and maintain SQL Server databases. These individuals performed database administration and maintenance as their primary area of responsibility, or work in environments where databases play a key role in their primary job. The secondary audience for this course is individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.
Course Outline
- Database Administration Overview
- Introduction to the SQL Server Platform
- Database Management Tools and Techniques
- Planning SQL Server Installation
- Installing SQL Server 2014
- Post-Installation Configuration
- Introduction to Data Storage with SQL Server
- Managing Storage for System Databases
- Managing Storage for User Databases
- Moving Database Files
- Configuring the Buffer Pool Extension
- Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models
- Planning a Backup Strategy
- Backing up Databases and Transaction Logs
- Using Backup Options
- Ensuring Backup Reliability
- Understanding the Restore Process
- Restoring Databases
- Advanced Restore Scenarios
- Working with Point-in-Time Recovery
- Introduction to Transferring Data
- Importing and Exporting Table Data
- Copying or Moving a Database
- Introduction to Monitoring SQL Server
- Dynamic Management Views and Functions
- Performance Monitor
- Tracing SQL Server Workload Activity
- Using Traces
- Introduction to SQL Server Security
- Managing Server-Level Security
- Managing Database-Level Principals
- Managing Database Permissions
- Auditing Data Access in SQL Server
- Implementing SQL Server Audit
- Ensuring Database Integrity
- Maintaining Indexes
- Automating Routine Database Maintenance
- Automating SQL Server Management
- Implementing SQL Server Agent Jobs
- Managing SQL Server Agent Jobs
- Managing Job Step Security Contexts
- Managing Jobs on Multiple Servers
- Monitoring SQL Server Errors
- Configuring Database Mail
- Configuring Operators, Alerts and Notifications
