MTA Database Fundamentals

MTA Database Administration Fundamentals training

• Training: get practical technical skills
• More hands-on: trial software included
• Receive a certificate of course attendance
• Small class size: increased instructor interaction
• Expert trainers: imparting real world experience
• Authorised test centre: exam taken at our premises

• Basic knowledge of Database Development

• Understanding Core database concept
• Create database objects
• Manipulate data
• Understand data storage
• Administer a database

This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.

• University students
• Helpdesk operators
• Candidates entering IT job market
• First-level network support staff
• Systems administrator
• Individuals seeking MTA certification

• Understand how data is stored in tables
• Understand what a table is and how it relates to the data that will be stored in the database; columns/fields, rows/records
• Understand relational database concepts
• Understand what a relational database is, the need for relational database management systems (RDBMS), and how relations are established
• Understand data manipulation language (DML)
• Understand what DML is and its role in databases
• Understand data definition language (DDL)
• Understand how T-SQL can be used to create database objects, such as tables and views
• Choose data types
• Understand what data types are, why they are important, and how they affect storage requirements
• Understand tables and how to create them
• Purpose of tables; create tables in a database by using proper ANSI SQL syntax
• Create views
• Understand when to use views and how to create a view by using T-SQL or a graphical designer
• Create stored procedures and functions
• Select, insert, update, or delete data
• Select data
• Utilize SELECT queries to extract data from one table, extract data by using joins, combine result sets by using UNION and INTERSECT
• Insert data
• Understand how data is inserted into a database, how to use INSERT statements
• Update data
• Understand how data is updated in a database and how to write the updated data to the database by using the appropriate UPDATE statements, update by using a table
• Delete data
• Delete data from single or multiple tables, ensure data and referential integrity by using transactions
• Understand normalization
• Understand the reasons for normalization, the five most common levels of normalization, how to normalize a database to third normal form
• Understand primary, foreign, and composite keys
• Understand the reason for keys in a database, choose appropriate primary keys, select appropriate data type for keys, select appropriate fields for composite keys, understand the relationship between foreign and primary keys
• Understand indexes
• Understand clustered and non-clustered indexes and their purpose in a database
• Understand database security concepts
• Understand the need to secure a database, what objects can be secured, what objects should be secured, user accounts, and roles
• Understand database backups and restore
• Understand various backup types, such as full and incremental, importance of backups, how to restore a database