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Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure - 55353 Virtual Classroom Live October 05, 2026

Price: $2,295

This course runs for a duration of 5 Days.

The class will run daily from 9 AM ET to 5 PM ET.

Class Location: Virtual LIVE Instructor Led - Virtual Live Classroom.

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Description

Are your SQL Server systems secure, optimized, and ready for the demands of modern business? With over 70% of organizations relying on SQL databases to drive daily operations, the need for skilled database administrators is stronger than ever.

This instructor-led course on administering a SQL database infrastructure equips learners with practical skills to configure SQL Server security, implement backup strategies, manage access, monitor performance, and use PowerShell for automation. You'll also learn to maintain SQL Server databases, troubleshoot performance issues, and import and export data across production environments—including Microsoft Azure SQL.

This course prepares professionals to administer and maintain SQL Server infrastructure with a strong emphasis on security, availability, and automation.

Participants will learn to:

  • Authenticate users and assign database roles
    Configure SQL Server auditing, agent security, and backup strategies
    Manage SQL Server using PowerShell and automation techniques
    Monitor SQL Server activity using Extended Events
    Troubleshoot performance issues and import/export data

Who Should Attend?

The primary audience for this course is individuals who administer and maintain SQL Server databases. These individuals perform 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 audiences for this course are individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.

Course Overview

1 - SQL Server Security

  • Authenticating Connections to SQL Server
  • Authorizing Logins to Connect to databases
  • Authorization Across Servers
  • Partially Contained Databases

2 - Assigning Server and Database Roles

  • Working with server roles
  • Working with Fixed Database Roles
  • Assigning User-Defined Database Roles

3 - Authorizing Users to Access Resources

  • Describe and use server roles to manage server-level security.
  • Describe and use fixed database roles.
  • Use custom database roles and application roles to manage database-level security.

4 - Protecting Data with Encryption and Auditing

  • Options for auditing data access in SQL Server
  • Implementing SQL Server Audit
  • Managing SQL Server Audit
  • Protecting Data with Encryption

5 - Recovery Models and Backup Strategies

  • Understanding Backup Strategies
  • SQL Server Transaction Logs
  • Planning Backup Strategies

6 - Backing Up SQL Server Databases

  • Backing Up Databases and Transaction Logs
  • Managing Database Backups
  • Advanced Database Options

7 - Restoring SQL Server Databases

  • Understanding the Restore Process
  • Restoring Databases
  • Advanced Restore Scenarios
  • Point-in-Time Recovery

8 - Automating SQL Server Management

  • Automating SQL Server management
  • Working with SQL Server Agent
  • Managing SQL Server Agent Jobs
  • Multi-server Management

9 - Configuring Security for SQL Server Agent

  • Understanding SQL Server Agent Security
  • Configuring Credentials
  • Configuring Proxy Accounts

10 - Monitoring SQL Server with Alerts and Notifications

  • Monitoring SQL Server Errors
  • Configuring Database Mail
  • Operators, Alerts, and Notifications
  • Alerts in Azure SQL Database

11 - Introduction to Managing SQL Server by using PowerShell

  • Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
  • Configure SQL Server using PowerShell
  • Administer and Maintain SQL Server with PowerShell
  • Managing Azure SQL Databases using PowerShell

12 - Tracing Access to SQL Server with Extended events

  • Extended Events Core Concepts
  • Working with Extended Events

13 - Monitoring SQL Server

  • Monitoring activity
  • Capturing and Managing Performance Data
  • Analyzing Collected Performance Data
  • SQL Server Utility

14 - Troubleshooting SQL Server

  • A Trouble Shooting Methodology for SQL Server
  • Resolving Service Related Issues
  • Resolving Connectivity and Log-in issues

15 - Importing and Exporting Data

  • Transferring Data to and from SQL Server
  • Importing and Exporting Table Data
  • Using bcp and BULK INSERT to Import Data
  • Deploying and Upgrading Data-Tier Application

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.

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