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Training and workshops

Useful database training combines explanation with a lab that behaves like the real platform. Workshops can focus on development, administration, performance, migration, security, availability, or safe use of AI with database tools.

Core focus

What this practice covers

01

Role-based learning

Shape the material for developers, DBAs, platform engineers, support teams, or mixed delivery groups.

02

Guided labs

Practice diagnosis, change, validation, failure, and recovery using repeatable SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments.

03

Transfer to production

Connect every lab to checklists, scripts, measurements, and decisions participants can use after the session.

Typical work

What teams work on

  • SQL development and query tuning workshops
  • Production DBA fundamentals and operational runbooks
  • Backup, restore, HA, and disaster-recovery labs
  • SQL Server to PostgreSQL migration workshops
  • Security and least-privilege exercises
  • GitHub Copilot, Data API Builder, and SQL MCP sessions

Results

What good looks like

  • Practical skills demonstrated in a lab
  • Shared terminology and operating practices
  • Reusable scripts and checklists
  • A training path matched to the team’s current platform