Ace Your DP-300 Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate Exam

Scenario: Business Requirements

Litware identifies business requirements include: meet an SLA of 99.99% availability for all Azure deployments.

Box 1: Cloud witness

If you have a Failover Cluster deployment, where all nodes can reach the internet (by extension of Azure), it is recommended that you configure a Cloud Witness as your quorum witness resource.

Box 2: Azure Basic Load Balancer

Microsoft guarantees that a Load Balanced Endpoint using Azure Standard Load Balancer, serving two or more Healthy Virtual Machine Instances, will be available 99.99% of the time.

Note: There are two main options for setting up your listener: external (public) or internal. The external (public) listener uses an internet facing load balancer and is associated with a public Virtual IP (VIP) that is accessible over the internet. An internal listener uses an internal load balancer and only supports clients within the same Virtual Network.

Scenario: Authenticate database users by using Active Directory credentials.

The configuration steps include the following procedures to configure and use Azure Active Directory authentication.

Create and populate Azure AD.

Optional: Associate or change the active directory that is currently associated with your Azure Subscription.

Create an Azure Active Directory administrator. (Step 1)

Configure your client computers.

Create contained database users in your database mapped to Azure AD identities. (Step 2)

Connect to your database by using Azure AD identities. (Step 3)

Automating Azure SQL DB index and statistics maintenance using Azure Automation:

1. Create Azure automation account (Step 1)

2. Import SQLServer module (Step 2)

3. Add Credentials to access SQL DB

This will use secure way to hold login name and password that will be used to access Azure SQL DB

4. Add a runbook to run the maintenance (Step 3)

Steps: 1. Click on "runbooks" at the left panel and then click "add a runbook"

2. Choose "create a new runbook" and then give it a name and choose "Powershell" as the type of the runbook and then click on "create"

5. Schedule task (Step 4)

Steps:1. Click on Schedules2. Click on "Add a schedule" and follow the instructions to choose existing schedule or create a new schedule.