Microsoft SQL Always On High Availability with Optimization

Course Description

Microsoft SQL Always On High Availability with Optimization develops practical, role-relevant capability in implementing SQL Server Always On high availability while optimizing indexes, statistics, query execution, security, backup, automation, monitoring, and recovery. The course connects important platform concepts with implementation decisions, operational controls, and realistic workplace scenarios.

Learners progress through four structured lessons aligned to the current source course focus. The learning path emphasizes accurate configuration or development, secure practices, reliable operations, collaboration, and evidence-based troubleshooting.

By completing the course, learners can apply the skills to role-specific tasks, review results against clear acceptance criteria, and create a practical improvement plan for continued development.

What You Will Learn

• Explain storage engine, query processor, statistics, cardinality, indexes, and columnstore
• Create workload, wait, resource, query, and availability baselines
• Identify inefficient access paths, stale statistics, fragmentation, and systemic bottlenecks
• Analyze execution plans, plan cache, parameter sensitivity, waits, and memory grants
• Use Extended Events, Query Store, DMVs, and performance counters
• Tune queries, indexes, configuration, concurrency, and resource use
• Design and configure availability groups, replicas, listeners, quorum, and failover
• Protect data with encryption, auditing, permissions, backup, restore, and recovery testing

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this Microsoft SQL Always On High Availability with Optimization course through instructor-led demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, evidence-based reviews, and a final improvement plan linked to practical workplace outcomes.