SQL Server DBA Training and Certification Course

MindMajix offers practice-based SQL Server DBA training, including hands-on labs, real-time projects, and case studies. The advanced training aligns with SQL Server 2025 and includes post-training support to equip you to become a competent SQL Server database administrator.

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SQL Server DBA Course Overview

MindMajix’s SQL Server DBA course empowers you to install, configure, and manage SQL Server databases effectively. At the end of the training, you will be able to perform database performance tuning and troubleshooting.

Why learn SQL Server DBA?

  • TheirStack reports that key industries, including IT services and consulting, manufacturing, software development, and business consulting, use SQL Server for database management.
  • You can apply for many job roles, including:
    • SQL Server Database Administrator
    • SQL Server Developer
    • Data Engineer
    • Database Engineer
  • This information shows that learning SQL Server DBA is rewarding and future-proof.

What will you learn?

  • Create databases, and add files and file groups
  • Perform data backup and disaster recovery
  • Apply indexing and tuning methods to optimize database performance
  • Manage users, security, roles, and permissions
  • Configure, monitor, and manage log shipping

Prerequisites:

  • Basic understanding of SQL fundamentals and database concepts.

Target Audience:

  • Beginners
  • Database Professionals
  • IT Administrators
  • Software Developers

Why MindMajix?

  • We deliver SQL Server training by experienced trainers with real-time industry exposure.
  • Our trainers will help you install Microsoft SQL Server on your system for hands-on practice.
  • We provide extensive post-training support, including mock interviews, resume-building guidance, and job-search assistance.
  • We offer additional learning resources to enhance your SQL Server expertise. You can access them in the ‘SQL Server DBA Training Resources' section of this webpage.
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SQL Server DBA Job Oriented Training Content

MindMajix’s SQL Server DBA course curriculum covers core modules to equip students with the in-demand skills required for SQL Server administration. We have aligned our course content with the latest SQL Server 2025 to keep learners current with the latest technical advancements.

Topic-wise Content Distribution

Starting with SQL Server 2022

SQL Server 2022 is a secure and consistent platform for building data management solutions. Using Server, you can run transactions faster with enhanced performance and high availability. Additionally, in SQL Server 2022 you can analyze, integrate, and manage both unstructured and relational big data using big data clusters and data virtualization.

  • Responsibilities of Database Administrator
  • Types of DBA’s
  • History of SQL Server – Versions
  • What’s new in SQL Server 2022 for Administrators?
  • Editions of SQL Server
  • Differences between Enterprise and Standard Editions
  • Requirements 
    • Hardware
    • Software
  • Instances  & its advantages
  • Types 
    • Default Instance
    • Named Instances

Learning Outcome

At the end of this section, you will get a basic idea about SQL Server 2022 along with its key features and advancements in its version.

Installing and Configuring

In this module, you will learn what are the requirements while installing SQL Server 2022 and the procedure to install SQL Server. You will also gain knowledge on how to configure SQL Server components. Moreover, you will learn additional concepts such as Migration strategy and also various ways of managing the SQL Server 2022 agent.

  • Installing SQL Server 2022 
    • Pre –Installation Steps
    • Installations
    • Viewing the Installation process with Log files
    • Common issues
    • Adding or removing components
    • Installing Service Packs 
  • Configuration 
    • Configuration of Various Services
    • Startup Parameters
    • Configuring data files and log file paths
    • Memory Configuration
    • Remote Connections
    • Configuring network protocols, Ports
    • Configuring Services
    • Configuring default backup folder.

Learning Outcome

At the end of this section, you will be in a position to test the connectivity while installing and also able to enable and disable features. You will gain complete expertise in configuring SQL Server 2022 components in a very high and complex and secure environment. Additionally, you can configure full-text indexing by yourself.

Working with Databases

  • Working with Databases 
    • System Defined databases
    • Moving System Databases
    • Handling TempDB database 
  • Database Architecture 
    • Data Files
    • Log Files
    • Filegroups
    • Extents
    • Pages –Types
    • Page Architecture
    • Tracking Free Space
    • Log file full – How to troubleshoot. 
  • Creating Databases
  •  Adding files, Filegroups
  • SQL Server Architecture

Security in SQL Server 2019

SQL Server 2022 built on the latest innovations will allow an individual to run SQL Server on your own platform of choice with more security features and functionality. In this sector, you will learn how a SQL Server allows developers and database administrators to develop and create database applications securely using its prominent architecture of security.

  • Security Enhancements
  • Types of Authentications. 
    • Windows Authentication 
      • Creating logins from Windows users and groups
      • Orphan logins
  • SQL Server Authentication 
    • Creating SQL logins and testing logins
    • Setting Authentication Mode
    • Security Auditing
    • Understanding Server roles
    • Working with users
    • Resolving Orphan users
    • Understanding database roles
    • Understanding permissions
    • Major Issues

Learning Outcome

By the end of this session, you will be able to build modern and secure database applications and also you can counter threats using SQL Server 2022 security measures.

Backup and Restoration

In this module, you will gain knowledge on how to back up your own database using SQL Server 2022 backup strategies. At the same time, you will learn how to restore your database securely from the damaged DB. Furthermore, you will get through some more additional concepts such as recovery models, types of backups, point-in-time recovery, and many more.

  • Recovery Models Setting Recovery Model 
    • Full
    • Bulk Logged
    • Simple
  • Database Backups 
    • Why do we need backups 
  • Backup Types Copy-Only, Mirrored, and Tail log backups 
    • Full
    • Differential
    • Transaction Log
    • File or Filegroup
  • Backup Devices
  • Performing Restoration
  • Backup System Databases
  • Point-in-time Recovery
  • Viewing complete details of the backup process
  • Issues related to backups

Learning Outcome

You will be able to perform a backup of your database using various backup models present in SQL Server 2022 by the end of this section. You can even restore your database at a point in time. Finally, You will also be in a position to understand page-level restore, group file restore, and many more in a clear way.

Introduction to High Availability and Working with Log Shipping

You will get through high availability features in SQL Server 2022 and how this feature makes the availability of servers in the occurrence of any failover event. You will come to know about log shipping feature in this section. SQL Server mainly uses log shipping for disaster recovery and it also involves log backups for the principal databases.

  • Introduction to High Availability
  • Working with Log Shipping
    • Features
    • Jobs
    • Requirements to implement Log Shipping
    • Configuring Log Shipping
    • Monitoring Log Shipping
    • Manually performing Fail Over
    • Transferring Logins
    • Log Shipping tables and stored procedures
    • Handling Issues

Learning Outcome

By the end of this module, you will gain expertise in the high availability of groups and disaster recovery features. you will also be able to configure and monitor log shipping by yourself.

Introduction to Always ON & Replication

You will get through the availability groups feature called Always-On and Replication Strategies in this module. This “Always On” is the significant disaster-recovery and availability solution used as a substitute for database mirroring. Another feature of SQL Server is replication, it is a group of technologies used for disturbing objects and data from one database to other databases in different locations through the Internet. Additionally, you will also have also learn concepts such as Patching in Always-On, Troubleshooting, types of Replications, and many more.

  • Always-ON
    • HADR Internals & Advantages
    • Setting up HADR
    • Adding a DB to the AG
    • Patching in Always on
    • Adding a Replica in AG
    • Setting up Listener & read-only Replicas in AG
    • Troubleshooting & maintenance
  • Replication
    • Replication and Advantages
    • Replication Entities
    • Replication Architecture
    • Replication Agents
    • Types of Replications
    • Configuring Replication 
    • Snapshot Replication
    • Transactional Replication
    • Merge Replication
    • Peer to Peer replication
    • Managing Replication
    • Monitoring and Tuning Replication

Learning Outcome

You will be in a position to troubleshoot replication problems by the end of this section. Every individual who has taken this SQL Server DBA training will be able to identify various strategies of replication and availability of groups.

Clustering SQL Server

The SQL Server's new architecture introduces the data platform called Big Data Cluster which is the combination of Spark, HDFS, and SQL Server database engine. This Big data Cluster present inside the relational database SQL Server engine will form a storage layer to integrate HDFS and Server in order to scale petabytes of data.

  • Clustering SQL Server
  • Overview of Windows Clustering
  • Requirements
  • Installation and configuration of SQL Server Clustering
  • Applying Service packs and fixes
  • Moving groups
  • Adding node on a SQL Server Failover Cluster
  • Troubleshooting Cluster issues.

Learning Outcome

You will gain hands-on expertise in managing multiple instances on a cluster and able to configure SQL Server clusters

Automating Administrative Tasks

Microsoft SQL Server will allow users to automate administrative tasks. Using this automated administration you can handle various events and tasks easily which will save your time for other functions of administration. Additionally, you will gain knowledge on various concepts such as configuring profiles, job monitoring, resolving errors, and many more.

  • Maintenance Plans
  • Working with Database Mail Configuring 
    • Mail Architecture
    • Configuring Profiles and Accounts
    • Sending Mails
  • Implementing Automation 
    • Configuring SQL Server Agent
    • Creating Operators, Alerts, Jobs
    • Managing jobs and resolving errors
    • Monitoring Jobs
    • Auto alert when jobs are enabled, disabled or failed

Learning Outcome

By the end of this module, you will be able to automate administrative tasks and also understand how to configure SQL Server agents.

Advanced Administration Concepts

  • Database indexes understanding
  • Checking index defragmentation & Maintenance
  • Database Health Check
  • Understanding SQL Server Profiler
  • Creating & Running Traces
  • Understanding Extended Events
  • Creating & configuring Extended Events
  • Monitoring Tools 
    • System Monitor
    • SQL Server Profiler
    • Database Engine Tuning Advisor
    • Dynamic Management Views
    • SQL Server and Windows Error Logs 
  • TroubleshootingLocks 
    • Physical Server Performance
    • Connectivity to SQL Server
    • Database Performance
  • Dead Locks
  • Transaction Isolation Levels
  • Understanding Blocking
  • Terminating Processes
  • Using the DAC
  • Managing Databases 

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Most of the SQL Server DBA Jobs in the industry expect the following add-on skills. Hence, we offer these skills-set as FREE Courses (Basics) to ease your learning process and help you stay ahead of the competition.

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Hands-on SQL Server DBA Projects / Use Cases

Our SQL Server DBA Training course aims to deliver quality training that covers solid fundamental knowledge on core concepts with a practical approach. Such exposure to the current industry use-cases and scenarios will help learners scale up their skills and perform real-time projects with the best practices.

  1. 1. Always on High Availability

  2. 2. Monitoring SQL Server Databases

  3. 3. Library Management System Database Design and Querying

  4. 4. E-Commerce Platform Database Design and Data Analysis

  5. 5. High-Performance Database Optimization and Security Enhancement

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On-Demand Training

25 hrs of Self-Paced Videos

  • 25 hours of SQL Server DBA Training videos
  • Curated and delivered by industry experts
  • 100% practical-oriented classes
  • Includes resources/materials
  • Latest version curriculum with covered
  • Get one year access to the LMS
  • Learn technology at your own pace
  • 24x7 learner assistance
  • Certification guidance provided
  • Post sales support by our community

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  • Real-time projects and certification guidance.

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  • Customized course curriculum as per your team's specific needs
  • Training delivery through self-Paced videos, live Instructor-led training through online, on-premise at Mindmajix or your office facility
  • Resources such as slides, demos, exercises, and answer keys included
  • Complete guidance on obtaining certification
  • Complete practical demonstration and discussions on industry use cases
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SQL Server DBA Certification

Course Completion Certification:

MindMajix provides you with a SQL Server DBA course completion certificate once you complete the assessments and quizzes included in the training.

  • The certificate validates your proficiency in SQL Server administration and database management.
  • You can add this shareable certificate to your LinkedIn profile and professional portfolio. It helps you stand out in the field of database administration.

 

SQL Server DBA Certification:

MindMajix’s SQL Server DBA course curriculum aligns with the Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate certification exam topics. Our training provides you with the confidence to pass the certification exam effectively.

The table below maps the SQL Server DBA certification exam blueprint to the relevant MindMajix course modules for your better clarity.

 

Certification Exam Exam Topics MindMajix Modules
Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions (DP-300) Plan and implement data platform resources
  • Starting with SQL Server 2022
  • Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2022
Implement a secure environment Security in SQL Server 2019
Monitor, configure, and optimize database resources
  • Working with Databases
  • Advanced Administration Concepts
Configure and manage automation of tasks Automating Administrative Tasks
Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) environment
  • Backup and Restoration
  • Introduction to High Availability and Working with Log Shipping
  • Introduction to Always ON and Replication
  • Clustering SQL Server

 

Last reviewed: 23 Dec 2025 · Sources: Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions (DP-300)

What is the cost and process of the SQL Server DBA Certification

Certification Exam DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure measures the skills around management, availability, security and performance monitoring and optimization of modern relational databases like SQL Server 2022. 

Please find below the percentage of questions asked from each category.

  • Implement a secure environment (15-20%)
  • Monitor and optimize operational resources and Query (20-30%)
  • Perform automation of tasks (10-15%).
  • High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) implementation (15-20%)
  • Administration using T-SQL (10-15%)

Note: The same exam earlier validated the skills in the name of the Microsoft 70-462 exam.

MindMajix's SQL Server DBA Certification Training covers most DP 300 exam topics.

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SQL Server DBA Training FAQs

Do I need to purchase an SQL Server DBA license to attend the training?

No, you don't need to purchase an SQL Server DBA license to join the training. Our trainers will assist you with installing SQL Server 2025 for your hands-on exercises.

Do you accept learners from all countries?

Yes, we welcome learners from all over the world. Learners must have basic English communication skills to participate actively in the training.

I don't have any industry experience. Can I still join the SQL Server DBA training?

Yes. You can join with no industry experience. Our trainers begin with fundamental SQL Server DBA concepts, then dive into advanced ones. It helps you get perfectly aligned with the training.

Can learners from a non-technical background take this course?

Yes. The training is designed for both technical and non-technical learners. Our training explains technical concepts in an easy-to-understand manner, so non-technical learners can quickly understand SQL Server.

I already have some experience as an SQL Server Database administrator. Can I skip the basic modules?

We customize the training to your current SQL Server DBA expertise and learning goals.

What if I face difficulties during the learning process?

MindMajix trainers provide continuous support throughout the training process, making your learning experience easier. We also offer additional learning resources and practical exercises to ensure a seamless learning journey.

Is there a maximum batch size for this training?

We offer flexible batch sizes and provide one-on-one training at your convenience.

How do you assign trainers for the SQL Server DBA training?

Our trainers typically have more than 10 years of real-world experience. Our SQL Server database trainer has over 10 years of industry experience administering SQL Server databases across industries.

How important is hands-on learning in your SQL Server DBA training?

MindMajix emphasizes practice-based training. You will work on several hands-on labs and real-time projects during the training.

How do you deliver hands-on projects during the training?

You will complete many of the latest SQL Server database projects outlined in the project section of this webpage. Our trainers will provide you with close guidance to help you complete the projects successfully.

Do you provide support if technical issues arise during training?

Yes, our dedicated technical support team is available to help resolve technical issues promptly.

What is the format of the final assessment?

The final assessment includes multiple-choice questions designed to evaluate and validate your SQL server database administration skills.

Does the SQL Server DBA course guarantee a job?

We do not guarantee job placement. However, we provide strong career support, including:

  • Helping you build a strong project portfolio showcasing your SQL Server database expertise
  • Conducting mock interviews to prepare for interviews with confidence
  • Sharing your profile with companies hiring SQL Server database administrators

What if I miss a session?

You can watch recordings of any missed sessions at any time through our LMS.

How can I contact your support team?

You can reach our support team by phone, WhatsApp, or via the contact form on our website.

What is your typical response time for addressing queries?

Our support team responds to learner queries promptly.

What are the system requirements for attending this training?

You will need:

  • A laptop, desktop, or tablet
  • Zoom or Google Meet installation
  • Windows, macOS, or Linux operating systems
  • A stable, high-speed internet connection

What is the validity of the SQL Server DBA course completion certificate?

MindMajix's SQL Server DBA course completion certificate is valid for life.

What payment methods do you accept for training fees?

We accept payments through credit/debit cards, UPI, and net banking for your convenience.

How long can I access the self-paced pre-recorded videos in the LMS?

You will have access to the self-paced SQL Server DBA training videos for one year. You can renew the access annually at a discounted price.

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