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Microsoft Certified Azure Database
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Step By Step Activity Guides (Hands-
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This blog post covers Hands-On Labs that you must perform to learn Database Administration on
Microsoft Azure & clear the Azure Database Administrator Associate Certification
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This post helps you in Database Administration on Microsoft Azure journey with your self-paced learning as
well as for your team learning. There are 24 Hands-On Labs in this course.

1. Provision A SQL Server On An Azure Virtual Machine

2. Connect To SQL Server And Restore A Backup
3. Deploy A VM Using An ARM Template
4. Configure Resources Needed Prior To Creating A Database
5. Deploy An Azure SQL Database

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11. Manage Access To Database Objects
12. Isolate CPU Problems
13. Use Query Store To Observe Blocking Problems
14. Detect And Correct Fragmentation Issues
15. Identify Issues With Database Design AdventureWorks2017
16. Isolate Problem Areas In Poorly Performing Queries In AdventureWorks2017
17. Use Query Store To Detect And Handle Regression In AdventureWorks2017
18. Use Query Hints To Impact Performance In AdventureWorks2017
19. Deploy An Azure Template From A QuickStart Template On GitHub
20. Configure Notifications Based On Performance Metrics
21. Deploy An Azure Automation Runbook (or elastic job) To Rebuild Indexes On An Azure
SQL Database
22. Create An Always-on Availability Group
23. Enable Geo-Replication For Azure SQL Database
24. Backup To URL And Restore from URL

So let’s understand the working of each of these labs in brief!!

Module 1- The Role of the Azure Database

Administrator
Lab Scenario: You are a database administrator for AdventureWorks. You need to create a test
environment for use in a proof of concept. The proof of concept will use SQL Server on an Azure Virtual
Machine and a backup of the AdventureWorksDW database. You need to set up the Virtual Machine,
restore the database, and query it to ensure it is available.

1.) Provision A SQL Server On An Azure Virtual Machine

The first lab of the Database Administration on Microsoft Azure course is to deploy a SQL Virtual Machine

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2.) Connect To SQL Server And Restore A Backup

In this lab, you’ll create a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection to the SQL Virtual Machine created
in the previous lab, download the database backup file, restore the database in SQL Server using SQL
Server Management Studio (SSMS) and then perform some SQL queries to confirm the availability of the
AdventureWorks database.

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Lab Scenario: As a database administrator for AdventureWorks, you will set up a new SQL Database
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deployment. Azure Data Studio will be used to evaluate the use of a SQL Notebook for data querying and
results in retention. Finally, an Azure Database for PostgreSQL will be deployed to support additional data
system needs.

1.) Deploy A VM Using An ARM Template

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templates/) allow you to create and deploy an entire Azure infrastructure declaratively. The template is a
JSON file defining the infrastructure and configuration for your project. In the template, you specify the
resources to deploy and the properties for those resources.

In this lab, you will deploy a virtual machine using an ARM template.

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creating a resource group and a virtual network.

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3.) Deploy An Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine that manages
database management functions like upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user
involvement.

This exercise will guide you through the process of creating a SQL server, configuring the server, and finally
deploying it. Once the deployment is successful you will give permissions to other Azure services to access
the SQL server.

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4.) Register The Azure SQL Database Instance In Azure

Data Studio And Validate Connectivity
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for professionals working with data and uses on-
premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

In this lab, you will register the SQL Database instance created in the previous lab in Azure Data Studio.
You can either download the Azure Data studio in your systems or launch it from the lab VM. After the

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5.) Deploy PostgreSQL Or MySQL Using A Client Tool To

Validate Connectivity
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system. This lab will guide you through
the steps of connecting to the PostgreSQL Database in Azure Data Studio. If you will using the lab VM then
the PostgreSQL extension is pre-installed with Azure Data Studio and you can perform a query to validate
the connection.

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Module 3- Implement A Secure Environment

Lab Scenario: You have been hired as a Senior Database Administrator to help ensure the security of the
database environment. These tasks will focus on Azure SQL Database.

1.) Configure A Server-Based Firewall Rule Using The

Azure Portal
In this lab, you will first add a client IP to the SQL server created previously which will allow you to connect
to your Azure SQL Database server using SQL Server Management Studio or any other client tools. After
configuring the Client IP, you will use this IP to connect to SSMS, import a data-tier application to import the
AdventureWorks.bacpac file. Once the file is successfully uploaded to SSMS you will create a contained
user in the AdventureWorks database.

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2.) Authorize Access To Azure SQL Database With Azure

Active Directory
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directory-azure-ad/) admin for your Azure SQL database created in the Azure portal. After setting the

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3.) Enable Advanced Data Security And Data

Classification
Microsoft SQL Azure has recently introduced Advanced Data Security (ADS) capability as a single pane to
help monitor and store your confidential data in a more secure way. In this lab, you will learn how to enable
ADS for your SQL server.

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4.) Manage Access

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(SSMS) by creating different users in the AdventureWorks database, create a custom role and add the
users as member in that role, create a stored procedure, etc using the T-SQL commands.

Module 4- Monitor & Optimize Operational

Resources
Lab Scenario: You have been hired as a database administrator to identify performance-related issues and
provide viable solutions to resolve any issues found. You need to use the Azure portal as well as on-
premises tools to identify the performance issues and suggest methods to resolve them. The
AdventureWorks case study is referred to for this lab.

1.) Isolate CPU Problems

This lab focuses on reviewing and identifying the CPU utilization of high-performing queries in the Azure
SQL database.

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3.) Detect And Correct Fragmentation Issues

this lab will take you through the steps to identify and remove the fragmentation in a specified table of the
AdventureWorks database.

Module 5- Optimize Query Performance

1.) Identify Issues With Database Design
AdventureWorks2017
Being a System Administrator it is your job to identify issues within the database by executing queries in
SSMS and observe the execution plan that is generated when the query is run. In the AdventureWorks2017
database, you will come across An Implicit Conversion warning, so now it is your task to identify ways to
fix this warning by identifying the column which is generating this issue and then modify the code
accordingly.

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2.) Isolate Problem Areas In Poorly Performing Queries In

AdventureWorks2017
In this lab, you will run a query to generate the actual execution plan in the result pane and then evaluate
and resolve performance problems from given execution plans like key lookup, etc.

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4.) Use Query Hints To Impact Performance In

AdventureWorks2017
Query hints specify whether the indicated hints are being used in the scope of a query or not. They affect
operators like Insert, delete, select, update and merge in the statement.

The tasks performed in this lab are: Run a workload, update the query to use a parameterized stored
procedure and use a Query Hint and apply query hint for a value, and re-execute.

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Module 6: Automation Of Tasks

Lab Scenario: You have been hired as a Senior Data Engineer to help automate database administration
operations. This automation is to help ensure that the databases for AdventureWorks continue to operate at
peak performance as well as provide methods for alerting based on certain criteria. AdventureWorks
utilizes SQL Server in both IaaS and PaaS offerings.

1.) Deploy An Azure Template From A Quickstart Template

On GitHub
Transparent Database Encryption or TDE is also known as encrypting data at rest encrypts SQL Server,
Azure SQL Database, and Azure Synapse Analytics data files.

You will provision a SQL database with transparent database encryption from an Azure quickstart template
in this lab.

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2.) Configure Notifications Based On Performance Metrics

Here you will create a new alert rule for the SQL database deployed in the previous lab, attach an action
group to notify the team when the threshold value is reached.

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3.) Deploy An Azure Automation Runbook (Or Elastic Job)

To Rebuild Indexes On An Azure SQL Database
Azure Automation delivers a cloud-based automation and configuration service that supports consistent
management across your Azure and non-Azure environments. It gives you complete control during
deployment, operations, and decommissioning of workloads and resources.

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Module 7: Plan and Implement a High

Availability and Disaster Recovery
Environment
1.) Create An Always On Availability Group
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2.) Enable Geo-Replication For Azure SQL Database

Here you will enable geo-replication for the Azure SQL database which you created in Module 3 of this
course. Once the database is secondary i.e., the geo-replication is enabled you will perform a forced
failover.

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3.) Backup To URL And Restore From URL

In this lab, you will first configure backup to URL, once the functionality is configured, you can generate a
backup file as a blob in Azure and then again restore it.

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Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (https://k21academy.com/microsoft-
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