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Microsoft SQL Server DBA Training

Become a skilled SQL Server Database Administrator and learn installation, configuration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, high availability, disaster recovery, and real-world production support.

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Course Duration

3 Months

Training Mode

Online

Trainer Experience

19+ Years

Placement Support

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Course: Microsoft SQL Server DBA Training

Date: 05 July 2026

Time: 07:00 AM IST

Class: 60 Minutes

Schedule: Monday to Friday

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Live SQL Server DBA Training Sessions

Learn directly from industry experts through interactive live sessions, hands-on labs, real-world production scenarios, and practical DBA exercises.

AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server Deadlocks in SQL Server File and Filegroups in SQL Server Indexes and Fragmentation in SQL Server Log Shipping in SQL Server Recovery Phases during a database restore Transactional Replication in SQL Server Transaction Processing in SQL Server Database Mirroring in SQL Server

Course Overview

Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely used enterprise database platforms in the world. Organizations rely on SQL Server DBAs to manage, secure, optimize, and maintain mission-critical databases.

This training program is designed for beginners and working professionals who want to build expertise in database administration and pursue careers in database management, cloud databases, and enterprise data platforms.

Why Choose This Training?

Real-Time Projects

Hands-on experience with production-like environments.

Industry Expert Trainer

Learn from professionals with years of DBA experience.

Interview Preparation

Resume guidance, mock interviews, and troubleshooting scenarios.

Practical Learning

Focus on administration, monitoring, maintenance, and performance tuning.

Course Syllabus

Module 1 - Starting with SQL Server
  • Understanding SQL Server components, memory, storage, and processing architecture.

  • Responsibilities of Database Administrator
  • History of SQL Server
  • Editions of SQL Server
  • Differences between Standard and Enterprise editions
  • Instance types in SQL Server
    • Default Instance
    • Named Instance
  • SQL Server Services and Tools
Module 2 - Installation & Configuration
  • Pre-requisites
  • Installation
  • Post Installation Configuration
Module 3 - DB Objects and SQL Commands
  • Different Types of Objects in RDBMS databases
  • What is the purpose of Table object?
  • Understand Different terminologies like Columns, Rows, Data & Attributes
  • SQL Commands
  • Different data types in SQL
  • DDL - Data Definition Language (CREATE, ALTER & DROP)
  • DML - Data Manipulation Language (INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE)
  • TCL - Transaction Control Language (BEGIN TRAN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK & SAVEPOINT)
  • DCL - Data Control Language (GRANT & REVOKE)
  • DRL - Data Retrieval Language (SELECT)
Module 4 - Functioning of Databases
  • Databases
  • Creating database
  • Altering database properties
  • Adding Files
  • Moving and renaming the database files
  • Types of Databases and brief explanation
    • System Databases
    • User Database
  • Database Architecture
    • Pages
    • Extents
    • Files
    • File groups
  • Transaction Log File Architecture
Module 5 - Security
  • Authentication Types in SQL Server
  • Types of Logins
    • Windows Logins
    • SQL Logins
  • Creating Users and Logins
  • Server roles
  • Password policy
  • Understanding Database and Server Roles
  • Grant and revoke permissions
  • Working on access level issues
  • Find orphan users and fixing them
  • Important queries related to verify user's acces
Module 6 - Database Backups and Restore
  • Database Backups
    • Why we need backups
  • Types of Backups
    • Full Backup Differential Backup Transaction Log Backup
  • Copy-only, Mirrored, Split and Tail log Backups
  • Differences between backups
  • Backup Strategy
  • CHECKPOINT
  • Monitor and fix the space f transaction log files
  • Checking the backup files VALID or CORRUPTED
  • Backup storage tables
  • Important queries to check database backups
  • Performing database restores
    • Types of Restoration
    • Attach and Detach
  • Shrinking database files
Module 7 - Recovery Models of Databases
  • Types of Recovery Models
  • Full
  • Bulk Logged
  • Simple
  • Differences between Recovery Models
  • Setting Recovery Models according to the Scenarios with examples
Module 8 - Automation of SQL Server
  • Working with SQL SERVER Agent
  • Creating Jobs
  • Managing Jobs and Resolving issues
  • Monitoring Jobs
Module 9 - DB Mail Configuration, DB Audit, Linked Servers and Error Logs
Module 10 - Disaster Recovery Solution - Log Shipping
  • Understand the key terms in disaster recovery
  • Recovery time objective
  • Recovery point objective
  • What is a data center?
  • Primary and secondary data centers
  • Understand the disaster recovery solutions
  • Working with Log shipping
  • Log shipping terminology
  • Pre-requisites to implement Log shipping
  • Different modes of Log shipping
  • Configuring Log shipping
  • Monitoring
  • Manually performing a failover
  • Log shipping Tables
  • Discussing Real Time Scenarios
Module 11 - High Availability - Database Mirroring
  • Working with Database Mirroring
  • Terminology
  • Pre-requisites to implement Mirroring
  • Pre check mirroring ports ENABLED or DISABLED
  • Architecture
  • Operating Modes
  • Differences between Modes
  • Port numbers involved in Mirroring
  • Requirements for Mirroring
  • Configuring Mirroring
  • Mirroring failover
  • Issues on Mirroring
  • Limitations and disadvantages of database mirroring
Module 12 - Replication
  • Replication
  • Pre-requisites to implement to Replication
  • Types of Replications
  • Snapshot publication
  • Transactional publication
  • Peer to peer publication
  • Merge publication
  • Pull subscriptions
  • Push subscriptions
  • Usage of snapshot job
  • Snapshot path and files
  • Usage of log reader job
  • Usage of Distribution database and repl commands and transaction tables
  • Usage of distributor job
  • Understand the process of applying the snapshots onto subscriber.
  • Understand the process of applying changes to subscriber.
  • Distribution cleanup job
  • Monitor the replication process
  • Identify and troubleshoot real-time issues in replication
Module 13 - AlwaysOn Availability Groups - Part1
  • Understand the role of Window Cluster and Quorum disk
  • Pre-requisites to Enable AGA feature on SQL Server service
  • Prerequisites to Setup databases to AGA groups
  • Configure the SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
  • Add a database to New Availability Group by using AGA wizard on Primary replica
  • Add a database to existing Availability Group by using AGA wizard on Primary replica
  • Remove database from availability group
  • Restore a database from backup which is in availability groups
  • Configure AGA Group with Asynchronous
  • Test auto failover by take down the current Primary replica
  • AUTO SEEDING option
  • Do manual failover by from Dashboard
Module 14 - AlwaysOn Availability Groups - Part2
  • Add AGA listener
  • Test the connections by using Listener
  • Create one more AGA group and add different set of databases
  • Add listener to another AGA group and test the connection
  • Check the status of Asynchronous commit changes
  • Install the Service pack2 (On SQL Server 2014/2016) on both nodes
  • Add AD users and groups to Replicas
  • Grant Access to SQL Authenticated Logins
  • Setup the jobs in AGA Replica to run only on Primary replica
  • Monitor the status of synchronization by using Dashboard
  • Different forms of failovers (Auto failover, manual failover and forced failover)
  • Configure read-only routing list for Read Intent connections
  • Accessible secondaries for report purpose
Module 15 - Monitoring Tools
  • System Monitor
  • SQL Server Profiler
  • SQL Server and Windows Error Logs
Module 16 - Query Performance Tuning - Part1
  • Locks and session blockings
  • Different types of locks
  • Monitor the locks
  • Understand the deadlocks
  • Generate a deadlock situation
  • Examine the deadlock situation
  • Troubleshoot to minimize occurrences of deadlocks
  • Isolation levels
  • Read committed isolation level
  • Read uncommitted isolation level
  • Serializable isolation level
  • Non repeatable reads isolation level
  • Test blocking sessions with different isolation levels
  • Understand the heap tables and storing of data
  • Understand the clustered tables and storing of data
Module 17 - Query Performance Tuning - Part2
  • Tables with indexes
  • Different types of indexes
  • Understand the B-Tree architecture
  • Understand why indexes improve the performance of read operation
  • Statistics on a table
  • Query optimizer role
  • Fragmentation in indexes
  • Understand why fragmentation occur
  • Troubleshoot fragmentation issue
  • Rebuild/reorganize the indexes
  • Usage of fill factor
  • Understand the execution plans
  • Examine the execution plans to identify the performance issues
  • Index scan vs index seek vs table scan operations
  • Add proper indexes based on the sql queries
  • Non clustered indexes and/or covering indexes
  • Best recommendations to create non clustered or covering indexes in the tables
Module 18 - Query Performance Tuning - Part3
  • Using DMV’s and DMF’s to analyze the Query Performance
  • Compress the tables to reduce its size which in-turn helps to improve the query performance
  • Table partitions
  • Database Tuning Adviser to trouble shoot long running queries
  • Identify and troubleshoot IO, CPU & Network bottlenecks
  • Troubleshoot tempdb issues
Module 19 - Managing SQL Server instance and its databases
  • SQL Server Architecture
  • Starting SQL Server in Single user mode
  • Modifying the Logical and Physical names of database files
  • System databases - Master, Model, MSDB & TempDB
  • Rebuilding System databases
Module 20 - SQL Server Upgrade and Migration
  • Procedure to migrate the SQL Server
  • In-Place upgrade and Sid by side Migrate
  • Use the Microsoft Database Migration Assistance Tool
  • Migrate to Azure VM
Module 21 - Introduction to Azure Database Admin
  • Understand IAAS, PAAS, SAAS
  • License Model
  • SQL Server on Azure VM
  • SQL Server Managed Instances
  • Elastic Pools
  • Data Security
  • Monitoring Azure resources
  • Optimize SQL Server performance in Azure
  • Optimize Query performance
  • Automate the Alerts
  • Disaster Recovery and High Availability in Azure

Who Can Join?

🎓 Fresh Graduates
💻 Database Developers
🖥️ System Administrators
🔧 Technical Support Engineers
🏢 IT Professionals
📊 Aspiring Database Administrators

Career Opportunities

💼 SQL Server DBA
🚀 Senior Database Administrator
⚙️ Production Support Engineer
📈 Database Consultant
☁️ Cloud Database Administrator
🏗️ Database Operations Engineer

What You Will Gain

Real-world SQL Server DBA Skills
Production Support Experience
Backup & Recovery Expertise
Performance Tuning Knowledge
High Availability & Disaster Recovery Skills
Interview Preparation Sessions
Resume Building Guidance
Hands-on Lab Exercises

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Excellent practical sessions with real-time scenarios. The course content, support, and guidance helped me gain confidence in PostgreSQL administration and troubleshooting.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need prior database experience?

No. The course starts with fundamentals and progresses to advanced DBA topics.

Will I get practical experience?

Yes. The training includes hands-on labs and real-world DBA scenarios.

Is this training suitable for working professionals?

Yes. Weekend and weekday batches can be arranged.

Will interview questions be covered?

Yes. Interview preparation and troubleshooting sessions are included.

Will I receive assistance with resume preparation and interview readiness?

Yes. We provide guidance on creating a professional SQL Server DBA resume, highlighting relevant skills and project experience. We also offer interview preparation support, including commonly asked SQL Server DBA interview questions and real-world troubleshooting scenarios.

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