Database failures can cost enterprises millions of dollars per hour, while poor capacity planning leads to unexpected outages and budget overruns. This Short Course was created to help data engineering professionals accomplish advanced database administration that ensures both reliability and optimal performance.
Automate, Analyze, and Database Administration
Automate, Analyze, and Database Administration
This course is part of DataOps: Automation & Reliability Specialization
Instructor: Hurix Digital
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Advanced level
Recommended experience
3 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Proactive automation with validation is the foundation of reliable data systems.
Backup processes must include integrity verification to be trustworthy .
Performance issues in high-concurrency systems require systematic diagnosis using database internals rather than guesswork
Effective capacity planning transforms historical patterns into actionable forecasts that prevent resource shortages and waste.
Skills you'll gain
- Data Access
- Data Maintenance
- Demand Planning
- Database Management
- Forecasting
- Data Integrity
- Application Performance Management
- Capacity Planning
- Problem Management
- SQL
- Disaster Recovery
- Performance Analysis
- Data Validation
- Database Administration
- Database Architecture and Administration
- Performance Tuning
- Resource Planning
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Taught in English
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