7 courses. Pick a level or audience to narrow the list.
Vendor coverage
Databases Training by Vendor
The vendors behind the databases catalog — each vendor page maps its full certification landscape.
Full catalog
All Databases Courses
Every Databases course in the CBT Nuggets catalog.
Frequently asked questions about Databases training
Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Databases training for their team.
Which roles and experience levels do the Databases courses serve?
The path spans beginner to associate level. MySQL Essentials, SQL for Data Practitioners, and DP-900 suit junior IT practitioners, developers, and analysts. DP-300, the SQL Server 2016 administration course, and the T-SQL course are built for DBAs and IT practitioners with at least a year of relational database or T-SQL experience.
Which certifications do these courses prepare a team for?
The courses align to Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900), Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), the Microsoft MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration exams (70-764 and 70-765), and Oracle Database SQL Certified Associate (1Z0-071). The vendor issues the certification; CBT Nuggets prepares the learner for it.
How should a Training Manager sequence a team path?
Start with a shared foundation such as SQL for Data Practitioners, MySQL Essentials, or DP-900. Then assign platform-specific depth by role: DP-300 and T-SQL for SQL Server and Azure SQL DBAs, and 1Z0-071 for staff who query or change Oracle data.
How much time should we plan per learner?
Time varies by course. For example, Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) runs about 8.8 hours and the T-SQL course about 7.2 hours per learner. Associate-level administration courses such as DP-300 cover more skills and typically take longer.
How do these courses support audit readiness and outage prevention?
The administration courses cover encryption, including Always Encrypted and transparent data encryption, along with permissions, auditing, backup strategy, restores, and high availability and disaster recovery. These are the areas most often examined in data-protection reviews and recovery-time planning.
How do IT Directors track team progress?
Team reporting shows per-learner progress and completion, cohort and group views, and completion exports you can use as audit evidence. It also shows IT Trainerbot usage, including questions per member, top topics, and the training the answers came from.