Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Performance Tuning and Management

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in diagnosing and improving SQL Server 2019 workload performance using baselines, waits, query plans, indexes, statistics, concurrency, memory, storage, and operational controls. 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

• Define performance objectives and capture workload, waits, CPU, memory, storage, and latency baselines
• Use monitoring tools and repeatable tests to separate symptoms, causes, and business impact
• Read execution plans and identify scans, estimates, joins, spills, lookups, and expensive operators
• Tune queries, indexes, statistics, parameter behavior, and plan stability with measured validation
• Investigate blocking, deadlocks, isolation, transactions, latches, memory grants, and pressure
• Assess TempDB, files, storage latency, throughput, capacity, and configuration trade-offs
• Apply Query Store, Resource Governor, Extended Events, alerts, and operational dashboards
• Prioritize changes, test regressions, document rollback, and establish a tuning lifecycle

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.