Training

Curriculum SQL-L3
UpSkills
Microsoft Azure SQL Server Database Administration
Course Overview:
This is 100% hands-on course: students will learn Azure SQL Server database administration.
Helps to prepare Microsoft exams
Exam DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure
This course will cover best practices for Migrating SQL Server on-premises to Azure (IaaS/PaaS)

Azure SQL DB+ Managed Instance

AlwaysON Multi-Subnet +Advance Performance Tunning

Batch
March’2025
Topic 1: Cloud Computing Introduction

• How IT Infrastructure worked before Cloud Computing

• History and Evolution of Data Centers
• Impact of Virtualization
• Types of Cloud Computing
• Private
• Public
• Hybrid
• Types of Public Clouds: IaaS, PaaS & SaaS Models
• Services offered by Microsoft Azure (asIntroduction)
• Azure Free trail account creation & subscription
• Resource Group and Resourceintro
• Linux and Windows VM Deployment.
• Configure Point-to-site & Site-to-site network configuration.
• Azure Storage Account creation and using storage explorer.

Topic 2: Azure IaaS – Windows Failover Cluster & AlwaysON

• Build windows 2016 & 2019 Cluster Installation and patching.

• Troubleshooting setup issues
• Why AlwaysOn? Setup Always On availability group
• Understanding configuring quorum (Dynamic quorum & Witness)
• Configuring AlwaysON in single subnet
• Configuring AlwaysON in single subnet using DNN (Distributed Network Name)
• Configuring AlwaysON in single subnet & Load balancer
• Configure AlwaysON on cross the regions.
• How to access multi subnet AlwaysON
• Difference between Windows 2016 and Windows 2019 on Cluster configuration
• Always on AG single subnet using Load Balancer (VNN)
• Always on AG multi subnet using Load Balancer (VNN)
• Distributed Availability Groups Always on in Azure Across Different Regions
• Point to site VPN using Azure Certificate, Radius Authentication and Azure Active Directory
• SQL Server Failover cluster using Managed Disks
RCA (Root Cause Analysis):
• Root Cause analysis for Cluster failover
• Generating cluster logs and reading cluster logs
• Root Cause analysis for AlwaysOn

Topic 3: Migration from ON-PREM to Cloud

Migration using Lift/Shift Methods

• Import & Export
• DACPAC & BACPAC
• Azure Blob Storage
• MDB database Migration
• Database Migration Assistant (DMA)
• Database Migration Service (DMS)
Offline & Online ( https://datamigration.microsoft.com/ )
• Migration using Azure SQL migration extension for Azure Data Studio
• Self-hosted integration run time
 • Log relay services on Managed Instance.
• Azure Managed instance link on Managed Instance.

Topic 4: Performance Tuning & Optimization

• Monitoring SQL instance on a VM
• Increasing memory and CPU
• Understanding Locking, Blocking and Deadlock
• Lock Compatibility
• DMVs to monitor Blocking and Deadlock.
• Understanding execution plan and estimated plan
• How to read execution plan.
• Understanding extended event trace
• Configuring Perfmon for CPU, Memory, I/O and general trouble shooting.
• Understanding how to read perfmon trace. Know the acceptable thresholds for various counters.
• Configuring extended event trace for:
• Troubleshooting blocking and deadlocking
• Finding long-running queries
• Tracking DDL operations
• Logging missing column statistics
• Long-running physical I/O operations
• Statements that cause specific wait stats to occur
• SQL Server memory pressure
• AlwaysOn Availability Groups events
• Index maintenance
• Role of statistics in query performance
• Index hint (scenario)
• Plan Guide (scenario)
• Max Server memory and Min Server memory impact
• MAX DOP and its impact. Best practice (scenario)
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Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting long running query by looking at the plan.
• Possible causes for a long running query (scenario based).
• Troubleshooting I/O taking longer issues and understanding how to identify if the is related to storage or SQL Server (Scenario).
• Troubleshooting High CPU issues. Common causes for high CPU issues. (scenario)
• Troubleshooting memory issues using perfmon (scenario)

Topic 5: Top Features SQL 2012/14/16/17/19

• TDE: What why and how? (scenario / practical)
• Restoring an encrypted database backup on another instance
• Column Level encryption (scenario / practical)
• SSL Encryption (scenario / practical)
• Resource Governor with I/O (scenario / practical)
• Backup Compression impact and advantages
• Contained Databases (scenario / practical)
• Page level compression Row Level compression
• Change data capture
• SQL Server Backup and Restore with the Windows Azure Blob Storage Service
• User defined server roles. (scenario / practical)
• SQL SERVER auditing
• In-Memory Database: Concept, Implementation, Advantage
 • Buffer Pool Extension
• Updateable Column store Indexes
• Column stored index (scenario / practical)
• Indirect checkpoint (concept)

Topic 6: Microsoft Azure SQL Database

• The Azure SQLDatabase Architecture
• Provisioning an Azure SQL Database
• Connecting to and querying the SQL Database from Server Management Studio
• Creating Resources
• Differences between Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
• Unsupported Features
• Selecting a Service Tier
• DTU and vCore Pricing Models
• Scaling up the Azure SQL Database Service Tier
• Choosing Between a vCore Pricing Model and DTU based
• Recommendation Based on CPU/IOPS/Log Utilization
Backing Up an Azure SQL Database
• Automatic Backups
• Backup Storage
• Backup Retention Period
• Configuring Long-Term Backup Retention for Azure SQL Database
• Manual Backups
• Backing up an Azure SQL Database Using SQL Server
Restoring an Azure SQL Database
• Restore Types
• Point-In-Time Restore
• Long-Term Database Restore
• Restoring Deleted Databases
• Geo-Restore Database
Azure Elastic Pools, Elastic Queries & Elastic Jobs
• Intro Elastic Pool
• When Should You Consider Elastic Pools?
• EDTU’s
• Elastic Jobs & Deployment
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Geo-Replication
• Failover Groups
• Command line failover and configuration

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