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About the Course

Get started with Relational Database Administration and Database Management in this self-paced course! This course begins with an introduction to database management; you will learn about things like the Database Management Lifecycle, the roles of a Database Administrator (DBA) as well as database storage. You will then discover some of the activities, techniques, and best practices for managing a database. You will also learn about database optimization, including updating statistics, slow queries, types of indexes, and index creation and usage. You will learn about configuring and upgrading database server software and related products. You’ll also learn about database security; how to implement user authentication, assign roles, and assign object-level permissions. And gain an understanding of how to perform backup and restore procedures in case of system failures. You will learn how to optimize databases for performance, monitor databases, collect diagnostic data, and access error information to help you resolve issues that may occur. Many of these tasks are repetitive, so you will learn how to schedule maintenance activities and regular diagnostic tests and send automated messages of the success or failure of a task. The course includes both video-based lectures as well as hands-on labs to practice and apply what you learn. This course ends with a final project where you will assume the role of a database administrator and complete a number of database administration tasks across many different databases....

Top reviews

Jul 30, 2023

Very good course and very informative. Thank you IBM, for educating me in such an important field

Jan 27, 2025

Very Informative and hand on lab provide good practice

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By Elena N

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Jul 23, 2025

This course is worse than others in the specialization, giving a very basic information, for some reason labs are in different rdbms-es which overwhelms without much of knowledge. Test questions suppose you memorize things from the video you watched once. I did it as a part of specialization otherwise I don’t recommend it.

By Peter S

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Apr 8, 2025

The course taught a lot, but there were a few "Readings" which should really be transformed into Hands On Labs to get more familiar with the practical application. I hope that can be implemented for future learners as it really helps to solidify the difference between the logs and when to use them.

By William S

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Aug 8, 2024

Could be better if the postqresql servers labs didn't have load issues.

By Georgiy R

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Sep 13, 2024

too many technical errors

By Đ S

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Jul 27, 2023

Absolute disaster. IBM provides 0% support here. Cannot even access to IBM DB2 lite plan. First tried 50 times to register and I dont know how, I succeeded; however, cannot create Lite account on the provided servers, therefore, cannot even start this course or any else because IBM is total garbage regarding support and their communication with Coursera.

By Bhushan S

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Dec 4, 2023

There is no moderator if any assignment reviewed wrongly. Also support is not at fruitful and its waste of time. Giving one start for bad support and shallow content.