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- Price: FREE
- Enrolled: 4670 students
- Language: English
- Certificate: Yes
- Difficulty: Beginner
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What You'll Learn
- Build a complete multi-server lab using VMware
- Windows Server
- and Active Directory.
- Automate SQL Server installation
- configuration
- patching
- and removal using PowerShell
- dbatools
- and DSC.
- Manage databases
- backups
- restores
- security
- logins
- roles
- and server administration through PowerShell automation.
- Monitor SQL Server performance using Grafana
- capturing CPU
- memory
- IO latency
- backups
- error logs
- and agent jobs.
- Create automated reports
- alerts
- and perform database migrations using PowerShell and dbatools.
Requirements
- Basic understanding of SQL Server concepts is helpful but not mandatory
- No prior PowerShell automation experience is required
- Willingness to learn SQL Server administration and automation
- A computer or laptop capable of running virtual machines (VMware)
- Basic knowledge of Windows operating systems is recommended
- A basic understanding of computer networking concepts (such as IP addresses
- ports
- and protocols) is helpful but not mandatory.
Description
This comprehensive course is designed to help you become a modern SQL Server DBA by mastering PowerShell automation, dbatools, SQL Server installation, maintenance, monitoring, reporting, and migration in real-world environments.
You will start by building a complete virtual lab using VMware, setting up multiple SQL Servers, a central monitoring server, and an Active Directory domain. From there, the course gradually introduces PowerShell fundamentals, modules, and advanced automation techniques used by professional DBAs.
A major focus of this course is SQL Server automation using dbatools and PowerShell DSC. You will learn how to install, configure, patch, uninstall, and manage SQL Server completely through scripts—eliminating repetitive manual work.
The course also covers database maintenance tasks such as database creation, configuration, ownership changes, recovery models, file growth, backups, restores, security management, logins, roles, and server administration across multiple SQL instances.
In advanced sections, you will implement SQL Server monitoring using Grafana, capturing real performance metrics like CPU, memory, IO latency, backups, error logs, SQL Agent jobs, and instance details, all visualized through professional dashboards.
You will also learn automated reporting and alerting using PowerShell, including HTML reports, email notifications, backup missing reports, replication alerts, database health checks, and DBCC reports.
Finally, the course covers database migration using dbatools, helping you move databases safely and efficiently between SQL Server environments.
By the end of this course, you will have the skills to automate SQL Server administration, manage multiple servers confidently, and work like a real-world SQL Server DBA using PowerShell.
Who this course is for:
- SQL Server DBAs who want to automate daily administrative and maintenance tasks
- System and Windows Server administrators managing SQL Server environments
- IT professionals looking to learn PowerShell automation for SQL Server and servers
- Developers or support engineers who work with SQL Server and want better administration skills
- Beginners aiming to become professional SQL Server DBAs or automation engineers
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