Updating Your Skills to SQL Server 2016

Course Description

SkillDynamo’s Updating Your Skills to SQL Server 2016 course develops practical, role-relevant capability in updating existing SQL Server skills for SQL Server 2016 performance, security, availability, data, reporting, analytics, and cloud capabilities. The learning path progresses from planning and essential concepts to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, instructor-led demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Each topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals build dependable skills, explain their decisions, identify failure points, and create an actionable improvement plan that can be applied to future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Review SQL Server 2016 architecture, editions, compatibility, installation, and upgrade concerns
• Use Query Store, temporal tables, JSON support, and performance improvements
• Assess workloads, compatibility, deprecated features, and upgrade risks
• Implement Always Encrypted, row-level security, dynamic data masking, and auditing
• Review permissions, authentication, encryption, keys, and separation of duties
• Validate application compatibility and security behavior
• Review Always On availability, backup, recovery, scale, and operational improvements
• Use columnstore, in-memory, reporting, integration, and analytical enhancements

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.