Microsoft SQL Server DBA Training

Course Overview

Microsoft SQL Server is one of the world's leading enterprise database management systems, powering critical applications across industries. Organizations depend on skilled SQL Server Database Administrators (DBAs) to install, configure, secure, monitor, maintain, and optimize database environments that support business operations.

This comprehensive SQL Server DBA training program is designed for students, IT professionals, system administrators, and database enthusiasts who want to build expertise in database administration. Participants will gain hands-on experience in SQL Server installation, database maintenance, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security management, monitoring, automation, and high availability solutions using real-world scenarios and industry best practices.

SQL Server Installation Database Architecture Backup & Recovery Security Management Jobs & Schedules Disaster Recovery - Log Shipping Transactional Replication High Availability - AlwaysOn Availability Groups Performance Tuning

Course Highlights

Develop practical Microsoft SQL Server DBA skills through hands-on administration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security management, and high-availability implementations using real-world database environments.

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Course Duration

90 Days of structured SQL Server DBA training with practical exercises.

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SQL Server Installation

Learn installation, configuration, upgrades, and instance management.

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Backup & Recovery

Master backup strategies, restore operations, and disaster recovery planning.

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Performance Tuning

Monitor workloads, analyze bottlenecks, and optimize SQL Server performance.

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Security Management

Implement authentication, authorization, auditing, and database security best practices.

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High Availability

Work with Always On Availability Groups, replication, and failover solutions.

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Trainer Experience

Learn from an industry expert with 19+ years of database administration experience.

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Career Support

Resume preparation, interview guidance, troubleshooting scenarios, and placement assistance.

Why Choose Our Microsoft SQL Server DBA Training?

Build enterprise-grade database administration skills through hands-on training, real-world scenarios, and industry best practices designed to prepare you for SQL Server DBA roles.

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Real-World DBA Scenarios

Gain practical experience managing SQL Server environments, handling incidents, troubleshooting issues, and supporting business-critical databases.

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Expert-Led Training

Learn directly from an experienced database professional with extensive expertise in SQL Server administration and enterprise database management.

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Hands-On Administration

Perform installation, configuration, maintenance, backup, recovery, monitoring, and security tasks in a practical lab environment.

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Performance Optimization

Learn to identify bottlenecks, analyze workloads, optimize queries, and improve SQL Server performance using industry best practices.

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High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Understand Always On Availability Groups, replication, failover strategies, and disaster recovery planning for mission-critical systems.

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Career & Interview Support

Prepare for DBA interviews through resume guidance, real-world troubleshooting exercises, mock interviews, and placement assistance.

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

Our Training Success

50+

Batches Completed

1000+

Students Trained

500+

Students Placed

19+

Years Industry Experience

Upcoming Free Demo Class

Course: Microsoft SQL Server DBA Training

Date: 27 July 2026

Time: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM IST

Class: 60 Minutes

Schedule: Weekdays-Online

Platform: Zoom Meeting

Fee: Contact Us for Fee Details

Meeting Link: Join Demo Class

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

Recovery Phases during a database restore

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

Sample SQL Server DBA Training Videos

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.