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Microsoft SQL Server: Performance Tuning Essentials

This course provides a hands-on approach to optimizing SQL Server performance, blending interactive discussions, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises.

Luca Berton
Luca Berton
Data Science | intermediate | 2 hours |   Published: Feb 2025
In partnership with: Coursera

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Overview

1KSTUDENTS*
97.7%RECOMMEND*

This course includes:

  • 2 hours of on-demand video  
  • Certificate of completion  
  • Direct access/chat with the instructor 
  • 100% self-paced online 

This course offers a hands-on approach to optimizing SQL Server performance, combining interactive discussions, real-world exercises, and industry-relevant projects. Leveraging both traditional learning and virtual tools, it provides engaging demonstrations, quizzes, and comprehensive reading materials. You’ll explore query tuning, indexing strategies, and database optimization techniques to enhance efficiency, minimize downtime, and ensure seamless application performance. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with practical skills to optimize databases, boost efficiency, and tackle real-world challenges with confidence

Skills You Will Gain

SQL Server
Database efficiency
SQL Server troubleshooting
Indexing strategies
Query tuning techniques

Learning Outcomes (At The End Of This Program, You Will Be Able To...)

  • Analyze and tune SQL queries to enhance SQL performance and reduce application latency. 
  • Evaluate effective database index and maintenance task strategies to improve efficiency. 
  • Monitor the performance of troubleshooting techniques used for resolving common SQL server issues.  
  • Apply best practices for SQL Server performance to ensure consistent and reliable operations. 

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of SQL, database management, and query optimization will be helpful. Familiarity with complex queries, indexing, execution plans, wait statistics, and performance tuning concepts is recommended.

Who Should Attend

Database Administrators, IT Professionals, Data Analysts, and Technical Managers involved in SQL Server management, performance optimization, and database efficiency. 

Curriculum

Instructors

*Where courses have been offered multiple times, the “# Students” includes all students who have enrolled. The “%Recommended” shown is also based on this data.
1Module 1: Fundamentals of SQL Server Query Performance Optimization
2Module 2: Advanced SQL Server Performance Techniques
3Module 3: Database Maintenance and Optimization

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Segment 01 - Introduction and Welcome

Segment 02 - Exploring Query Tuning Basics

Segment 03 - Planning Query Execution

Segment 04 - Identifying Indexing Strategies

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Segment 08 - Database Maintenance and Optimization

Segment 09 - Examining Strategies for Backup and Restoration

Segment 10 - Database Security Best Practices

Segment 11 - Congratulations and Continuous Learning Journey

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Segment 05 - Database Maintenance

Segment 06 - Monitoring Performance of Troubleshooting Techniques

Segment 07 - Troubleshooting Performance Problems

Luca Berton

Luca Berton

Luca is a cloud-native engineering leader and Ansible automation expert with 18+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale, secure infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Previously, I served as Vice President of Infrastructure at JPMorgan Chase & Co. At Dell Technologies, I help global banks and ESG startups build resilient, automated platforms—from disaster recovery for hundresd of thousands or containers and VMs to AI-driven ESG calculators used by 100+ SMEs. Luca is also a published technical author (Kubernetes, Ansible, RHEL, RHCE exam prep) and course instructor with Coursera, Pluralsight, and Educative, teaching topics like MLOps, Kubernetes, Azure, and infrastructure automation. Creator of Ansible & Terraform Pilot project reaches around 50,000 views per month, with 500+ hands-on use cases and troubleshooting guides. Luca enjoy turning complex infrastructure into simple, reliable automation and helping learners build practical, job-ready skills in cloud, DevOps, and automation.
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