SQL Server comes with many features for monitoring, securing, optimizing, and supporting your database infrastructure. Learn how to use these features to administer your SQL Server instances, and prepare for the Microsoft MCSA Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure (70-764) certification exam.Adam Wilbert covers four main skill areas required of SQL Server 2016 administrators: configuring access to data, managing backups, monitoring performance, and implementing the high-availability features of the product. Learn about data encryption, access control, role-level security, and dynamic data masking. Use SQL Server auditing to gain insights into the health and performance of your system, and determine upgrade paths. Discover how to back up SQL Server and perform full or partial restores, and monitor activity. Explore indexing and query execution plan management. Plus, learn to configure availability groups to mitigate hardware failure.

SQL Server is the database used with Azure and many on-premises environments and is quickly becoming a very popular RDBMS. Get an overview of installing, administering, and managing SQL Server 2016 in this course with SQL Server expert Gerry O'Brien. Learn how to install the database and tools, configure different instances, optimize performance, and secure your database with user roles and logins. Gerry also covers administrative duties such as backup and restoration, database migration, and high-availability options, including database replication, log shipping, and always-on availability.This course is also ideal for anybody preparing for the Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure (70-764) exam, one of two exams necessary to earn an MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration certification.

Ongoing, regular administration is critical to the security and performance of databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. It's also a key topic of the Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Exam. Whether you're studying to pass the test or simply to keep your admin skills up to date, this course will cover the most current techniques and best practices for administering a database. Adam Wilbert covers the core concepts, including securing the server with user authentication and roles, assigning object-level permissions, and performing a backup and restore. Along the way, he'll provide tips for working with SQL Server Management Studio and some challenges to help you practice what you've learned.Note: This course will also prepare certification candidates for the "Administer a database" domain of the Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Exam 98-364, Database Administration Fundamentals.

Never worked with a database before? In this course, Adam Wilbert goes over the most important features of working with SQL Server 2019, providing brand-new users with a first look at how the server operates. Instructor Adam Wilbert introduces the main working environment, SQL Server Management Studio, and walks you through how to create tables, define relationships, and write and run queries with Transact-SQL commands. Upon wrapping up this course, you’ll know everything you need to accomplish to create your first database. Start watching to quickly get up and running with this professional-grade database management system.

Master the fundamentals of SQL Server 2019, the industry-leading database management platform from Microsoft. In this course, instructor Adam Wilbert equips beginners with the core skills they need to create and manage SQL Server databases. Adam begins with the basics, showing how to install SQL Server and log into a local database server. He then discusses how to create new databases, design tables, define relationships, write queries, and use stored procedures and built-in functions. Plus, he demonstrates how to perform crucial database administration tasks, such as backups and restores, security enhancements, and performance monitoring.

Get Ben Sullins's 12 must-have SQL techniques for data science pros—engineers, DevOps, data miners, programmers, and other systems specialists. Ben's tips focus on practical applications of SQL queries for data analysis. Learn how to retrieve data, join tables, calculate rolling averages and rankings, work with dates and times, use window functions, aggregate and filter data, and much more. Each tip is short, relevant, and up to date with current industry best practices—making this the perfect course for busy analysts who normally struggle to find time to build their skills.

SQL queries can be fast and highly efficient, but they can also be slow and demand excessive CPU and memory resources. For many SQL programmers, occasional bouts with long-running queries and poor performance are simply par for the course. But by gaining a better understanding of how databases translate SQL queries into execution plans, you can take steps to avoid these issues. In this course, Dan Sullivan shows developers how to analyze query execution plans and use data modeling strategies to boost query performance. Dan describes how SQL queries are executed; highlights different types of indexes and how they factor in query tuning; covers several methods for performing joins; and discusses how to use partitioning and materialized views to improve performance.

Mastering SQL is an essential skill for any Oracle professional and the first step in becoming a true Oracle expert. In this course, Bob Bryla covers the basics required to code using SQL in an Oracle 19c Database environment. Bob covers what you need to know to get data in and out of your database tables, as well as how to modify data. He explains how to leverage SELECT statements, filter and sort rows, use both single- and multiple-row functions, and join tables. He delves into the Oracle data dictionary—a set of tables that provide information about a database—and shows how to query it. Plus, he demonstrates how to efficiently delete data using DML statements. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have the fundamental skills you need to work with SQL in this popular relational database management system.

Get up and running with Oracle Database 19c, the latest version of the popular relational database management system (RDBMS), and learn how it can help enhance your database design and deployment process. Throughout this course, instructor Bob Bryla covers the fundamentals of administering Oracle Database 19c. Discover how to install the RDBMS on Linux, manage the database and query tables using the SQLcl command-line tool, and efficiently move data in and out of your database tables using SELECT and DML statements, respectively. Plus, learn how to create, assign, and drop tablespaces, as well as how to create and drop user accounts.