Career path · Database administrator

Database Pathway: SQL foundations to data architecture

Six courses that take you from your first SELECT statement to the architecture behind a production data platform: SQL, SQL Server administration, recovery and performance, dimensional modeling, data engineering, and data architecture. Four of the six include a hosted lab on a real virtual machine.

Starting level
No experience needed
Content time
95 h 55 min
lesson time, from the published courses
Suggested pace
About 15 weeks
planning estimate, at your own pace
Weekly commitment
5–8 hours
suggested study time
Courses
6
Lessons
60
Labs
4
on real virtual machines
Certificate
On completion
Ultiblob-issued, verifiable by serial
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Before you start

Is this path for you?

A sequenced route into database work for someone starting with none. You begin by querying a real database, then learn to run one — backups and restores, permissions, and the work of making a slow query fast. The later courses move from operating a database to shaping data: dimensional models, pipelines and warehouses, and the trade-offs behind them. 60 lessons, about 96 hours of lesson content, with graded checks throughout.

Who it is for

  • Career changers starting with no database background
  • IT support and service-desk staff moving toward data work
  • Developers who write SQL but have never administered a database
  • Analysts who want to own the database rather than only query it

What you should know

  • Comfortable using a computer and a web browser
  • No prior SQL, programming or database experience is assumed

What you will need

  • A computer with a current web browser
  • A stable internet connection
  • Lab machines are hosted by Ultiblob — nothing is installed on your own computer

Curriculum

6 stages, in the order the work happens

Stage 1

SQL foundations

  1. SQL foundations

Stage 2

DBA foundations

  1. DBA foundations

Stage 3

Recovery, security and performance

  1. Recovery, security and performance

Stage 4

Data modeling

  1. Data modeling

Stage 5

Data engineering and warehousing

  1. Data engineering and warehousing

Stage 6

Data architecture

  1. Data architecture

Hands-on

Labs on this path

Each of these courses provisions virtual machines for you on the Ultiblob cluster and opens a console in your browser. The topology below is the published blueprint — roles and operating systems only.

Price and enrollment

$199.00

Introductory pricing. Review the current price before checkout.

  • labs included
  • certificate on completion

Before you decide

What we will not promise

  • A job, a salary, or an employer introduction. We teach and we let you practise; we do not place people.
  • Accreditation. An Ultiblob certificate records what you completed here. It is not an industry certification.
  • Statistics we have not measured. You will not find completion rates, placement rates or student counts on this site until they exist and are audited.

We would rather lose you here than mislead you.

$199.00

introductory price