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Hands-on training sessions: build something end to end, step by step, with exercises and a knowledge check. 10 sessions.
A hands-on learning session. Build two VNets with VMs that have no public IPs, prove they can't talk, peer them, control traffic with NSG rules and read the effective rules, then reach a storage account over a private endpoint, see private DNS working (and failing), and switch off public access. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session. Set up the OCI CLI, create a compartment and an IAM policy, build a VCN with an internet gateway and a public subnet, launch a Linux instance and SSH to it, attach and mount a block volume, store a file in Object Storage and share it with a pre-authenticated request, then clean everything up. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session. Load pipe-delimited files into Delta tables with PySpark DataFrames, make the notebook reusable with parameters, orchestrate many tables with a job, then add an incremental MERGE pattern. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session. Learn what InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, MySQL Shell and MySQL Router each do, then build a three-member sandbox cluster on your own laptop or a single VM, connect an application through Router, kill the primary and watch the cluster elect a new one, do a planned switchover and clean up. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session on a MySQL 8.4 container. Learn what the binary log records, take a consistent mysqldump backup that remembers its binlog position, make changes, drop a table by mistake, then restore the backup and replay the binary log up to the second before the mistake. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session for people who have built a lab cluster. Design and build a three-node InnoDB Cluster across availability zones, harden it with TLS and allow-lists, deploy MySQL Router properly, monitor Group Replication, recover from expelled members, lost quorum and complete outages, take backups, do rolling upgrades, and add a second region with InnoDB ClusterSet. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session on a free Oracle Database container. Switch to ARCHIVELOG mode, set up a fast recovery area, configure RMAN, take and check backups, delete a datafile on purpose, restore and recover the pluggable database without losing committed data, then validate and tidy up backups. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session with two PostgreSQL containers. Learn how WAL streaming works, create a replication user and slot, clone a standby with pg_basebackup, read from it, measure lag, promote it when the primary dies, and rebuild the old primary as a new standby. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session. Create a logical server and a serverless Azure SQL Database, connect with Microsoft Entra ID, create tables and load data, grant least-privilege access, restore to a point in time, scale up and down, watch basic metrics, and clean up so the lab costs little. Exercises and a knowledge check included.
A hands-on learning session for people who already run Azure SQL Database. Lock the server down with a private endpoint and Entra-only access, connect an app with a managed identity, turn on auditing, Defender and customer-managed TDE keys, build a geo-replicated failover group and test failover, tune with Query Store, automatic tuning and DMVs, compare Hyperscale and elastic pools, protect data with ledger and long-term retention, and deploy schema changes with dacpacs from a pipeline. Exercises and a knowledge check included.