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Training Managers often assign SQL for Data Practitioners first. It gives analysts and IT staff a shared baseline in querying, filtering, and aggregating relational data before T-SQL, MySQL, or SQL Server 2016 DBA assignments.
SQL for Data Practitioners
Master the fundamentals of Structured Query Language (SQL) to turn raw data into actionable insights. In this SQL training for Data Practitioners, you will learn to navigate relational databases, write efficient queries to extract specific datasets, and build or modify tables to organize information effectively.
Jonathan Barrios
Using T-SQL to Manage Data, Query Data, and Program Databases Online Training
This intermediate T-SQL training prepares administrators to leverage SQL Server's extended functionality, enhancing control over instances. You'll learn to perform complex operations with T-SQL, including transaction control, exception handling, and querying data across multiple tables. This T-SQL course course also covers temporal and non-relational data and error handling for robust database management.
Garth Schulte
MySQL Essentials
This MySQL training covers how create, configure, maintain, and deploy MySQL databases for web applications. You'll learn how to control and use the world's most popular database engine and the basics of what a MySQL database is best for, how to set one up, optimize it, connect it to apps, and more.
Trevor Sullivan
SQL 2016 Database Administration
Enhance your database administration skills with this MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Development training. Learn to deploy, configure, and manage SQL databases using both Azure SQL and SQL Server. Master key areas like security, performance optimization, data access, and storage management to improve your SQL administration expertise. Ideal for database admins looking to deepen their practical skills and advance their careers.
Garth Schulte
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Frequently asked questions about SQL training
Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating SQL training for their team.
Which roles and skill levels does the SQL training catalog serve?
SQL for Data Practitioners and MySQL Essentials are foundational and suit analysts, developers, junior IT Professionals, and staff new to databases. The T-SQL course is intermediate and is meant for staff with at least a year of T-SQL experience. The MCSA SQL 2016 Database Administration course targets DBAs with at least a year of SQL Server experience.
Which Microsoft exams does this SQL training prepare a team for?
The Microsoft MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration course prepares DBAs for exams 70-764 and 70-765. Microsoft issues the certification, and CBT Nuggets prepares the learner for it.
How should a Training Manager sequence SQL training across a team?
Many teams start with SQL for Data Practitioners as a shared query baseline. From there, SQL Server staff move to the T-SQL course, teams supporting MySQL-backed applications take MySQL Essentials, and DBAs responsible for SQL Server operations take the MCSA SQL 2016 Database Administration course.
Which data-protection and compliance topics does the training cover?
The MCSA SQL 2016 Database Administration course covers Always Encrypted, transparent data encryption, permissions, auditing, backup strategy, and restores. It also covers Azure SQL firewall rules and dynamic data masking. MySQL Essentials covers user privileges, securing a MySQL database, and backup and restore.
Does the catalog cover Azure SQL as well as on-premises SQL Server?
Yes. The MCSA SQL 2016 Database Administration course covers Azure SQL Database deployment, including service tiers, server and database creation, and elastic pools. It also compares IaaS and on-premises SQL Server installation and covers VM provisioning and migration.
How can an IT Director track team progress and show completion for audits?
Team reporting shows per-learner progress and completion, along with cohort and group views. It also provides completion exports you can use as audit evidence. Per-learner time varies by course; for example, the T-SQL course runs about 7.2 hours across three skills.