Microsoft SQL Server for Database Administrators: Intermediate to Advanced Training Course

About This Course

This three-day instructor-led course is aimed at people looking to move into a database professional role or whose job role is expanding to encompass database elements. The course describes fundamental database concepts including database types, database languages, and database designs.

Audience Profile

The primary audience for this course is people who are moving into a database role, or whose role has expanded to include database technologies.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Describe key database concepts in the context of SQL Server 2016
• Describe database languages used in SQL Server 2016
• Describe data modelling techniques
• Describe normalization and denormalization techniques
• Describe relationship types and effects in database design
• Describe the effects of database design on performance
• Describe commonly used database objects

The course is designed for administrators, developers and database developers.

The objectives of the training:

• acquire and strengthen the skills to create and manage databases
• knowledge of the syntax and use SQL to retrieve and modify data
• apply safety rules in the database
• the use of advanced elements (replication, automation, BI)
• the use of Microsoft SQL Server capabilities to create complex reports and solutions for developers

This comprehensive training course equips participants with the foundational knowledge and practical skills required to build, manage, and analyze business intelligence (BI) solutions using modern Microsoft technologies. The course focuses on SQL Server (2017/2019/2022 features) and Azure Analysis Services (AAS), covering the entire data analytics pipeline from data ingestion to visualization.

Participants will learn to design and implement modern data warehousing solutions, build robust ETL/ELT pipelines using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), create powerful analytical models using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS - Tabular) and Azure Analysis Services, and develop insightful reports and visualizations. Emphasis is placed on leveraging in-memory technologies, cloud integration, and modern query languages.

This course has been created for delegates already acquainted with SQL in Microsoft SQL Server Environment 2008/2012. The course focuses on set-based querying and query tuning, working with indexes and analyzing execution plans.

The training also covers table expressions, ranking functions and how to deal with partitioned tables.

The aim of this course is to provide a clear understanding of the advanced use of (SQL) for Microsoft SQL Server and the advanced use of Transact-SQL. For more in depth coverage of the topics this course can be run as a three day course.

Audience

• Database Administrator
• Developers

As a core of the Microsoft data platform, SQL Server is a leading operational database management system.

This SQL training course is for people who want to acquire basic skills to deal with SQL Server Databases. Course will help the members to learn:

• How to work with SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio.
• Meaning of Databases, SQL and RDBMS etc.
• How to create tables, use DDL, DML and DAL.
• Which are the various RDBMS Packages in the market and how they compare with each other.
• An Introduction to NoSQL and how they are organizations are changing into hybrid databases.

The course answers questions

• How to build a query?
• What opportunities have SQL?
• What is a relational database?
• What is the structure and SQL commands?

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) for storing and retrieving data.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn the essentials of the SQL language needed to query a Microsoft SQL Server database.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Microsoft SQL Server
• Query a Microsoft SQL Server database using Microsoft's Transact-SQL (T-SQL) language
• Understand the essentials of database design
• Optimize a database through normalization
• Use aggregate functions to generate results similar to those of "pivot-tables"
• Access Microsoft SQL Server through Excel

Audience

• Data analysts
• Business Intelligence professionals
• Business managers
• Excel experts who wish to expand their analysis skill set

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion
• Lots of exercises and practice
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment

Course Customization Options

• This training is based on the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server
• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

SQL Server is Microsoft’s enterprise-level relational database management system designed to store, manage, and retrieve data efficiently.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to administer, configure, and maintain SQL Server environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure SQL Server environments.
• Manage databases, users, and permissions.
• Monitor performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Automate tasks using jobs and maintenance plans.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Kazakhstan (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level database administrators who wish to learn the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively manage and administer SQL Server databases using SQL Server Management Studio.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand system requirements and perform installations.
• Create, configure, and manage databases using SSMS.
• Manage logins, users, roles, and permissions.
• Perform various types of backups and restore databases.
• Create, schedule, and manage jobs using SQL Server Agent.
• Implement best practices for efficient and secure SQL Server administration.

This SQL training course is for people who want to gain the necessary skills to extract and analyse data from any database and create reports. Course members will learn:

• how to write SQL queries
• what relational databases are and how we can use them
• what are relations and how to create them
• the structure of data
• differences between T-SQL and other dialects
• practical skills for writing queries

This SQL course deals with Microsoft T-SQL dialect. If you are interested in generic SQL, please see SQL Fundamentals course.

Delegates will gain an understanding of some of the more advanced features of Transact SQL as well as being able to do each of the following:

• Use queries to return complex result sets
• Manage database objects to aid query performance
• Tune queries to perform more efficiently

This course is for anyone who currently uses Transact SQL to extract data from a Microsoft SQL Server database and wishes to expand their knowledge particularly in the areas of data analysis and improving query speed.

Delegates will gain an understanding of the basic principles of Structured Query Language as well as being able to do each of the following:

• Construct queries to extract and filter data from an SQL Server database
• Create summarised results
• Change, derive and format data to suit the required output
• Change data and maintain database components and definitions

This course is for anybody who needs information from a Microsoft SQL Server database. It is suitable for either system developers or people from other areas who need to use SQL to extract and analyse data.