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OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Course is specially designed to enhance communication skills and gain advanced skills in office management. It will help identify key features of the role and will navigate through all the components and techniques for operating an efficient support team. This course will update your interpersonal skills, communication skills and other skills required to have effective office management and gain advanced administrative skills.

MYSQL PERFORMANCE & TUNING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This MySQL Performance & Tuning course is designed for Database Administrators, Application Developers and Technical Consultants who need to monitor and tune the performance of MySQL servers and databases. The course provides practical experience in monitoring and tuning MySQL servers and databases. Note: This MySQL Performance & Tuning course does not cover clustering (other than at overview level), replication or non-standard storage engines such as Falcon and PBXT. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Develop a monitoring and tuning plan * Use server configuration and status variables. * Identify and improve problem queries. * Make efficient use of indexes. * Monitor and size memory caches and locks. * Tune the MyISAM and InnoDB storage engine. * Evaluate the use of partitioning for performance. MYSQL PERFORMANCE & TUNING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone who wishes to monitor and tune MySQL performance. * Prerequisites: Delegates must have a working knowledge of MySQL Database Administration * Duration 3 days MYSQL PERFORMANCE & TUNING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction to performance tuning Tuning overview, Resolving performance issues, Recommended approach to tuning, Items to evaluate, Where to look, Planning a monitoring routine, Building a new database for performance, Tuning an existing database, Setting suitable goals. * MySQL performance tuning tools Administration tools, the information schema, performance-related SHOW commands, benchmarking tools, the MySQL performance schema, MonYog. Hands on Obtaining performance information. * Schema design Normalisation, de-normalisation, naming conventions, load generation, stress testing and benchmarking tools, selecting data types, data types, character sets, choosing storage engines. Hands on effects of design on performance. * Statement tuning Overview of statement tuning, identifying problem queries, the optimizer, explain, explain extended. Hands on identifying problem queries and using explain. * Indexes Index overview, Types of index, Index tuning, Indexes and joins. Hands on Indexes and performance. * Server configuration and monitoring Server configuration variables, server status variables, table cache, multi-threading, connection issues, query cache. Hands on setting and interpreting server variables and caching. * Locking Types of locking, locking and storage engines, effects of locking on performance. Hands on locking and performance. * The InnoDB engine Transactions, crash recovery, locking, monitoring InnoDB, caches and buffers, configuring data files, configuring the log files. Hands on InnoDB configuration and performance. * Other storage engines MyISAM engine, merge engine, archive engine, memory engine, blackhole engine, CSV engine, the Spider engine, the ColumnStore engine, the MyRocks engine, mixing sorage engines. Hands on storage engine performance. * Overview of clustering and performance Advantages of performance, advantages of clustering, performance issues and clustering, the NDBCluster engine, the Galera cluster, the Percona XtraDB cluster, MySQL InnoDB cluster, the federated engine, the federatedX engine, overview of other high availability techniques. NOSQL and Mencached overview. * Dumping and loading data SQL statements versus delimited data, parameters affecting dump performance, parameters affecting load performance. Hands on dump and load performance. * Partitioned tables Partitioned tables concepts, range partitioning, hash partitioning, key partitioning, list partitioning, composite partitioning or subpartitioning, partition pruning. Hands on partitioned table performance.

ORACLE SQL TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The Oracle SQL course is designed to give delegates practical experience in writing SQL statements and scripts using Oracle SQL. The basic SELECT statement, the use of SQL functions and the basic table and view handling statements are introduced. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Create SQL statements to query database tables. * Use standard aggregate functions and related SELECT statement clauses. * Join Tables. * Use basic subqueries and the set operators. * Use numeric, character and date functions. * Use conversion and other miscellaneous functions. * Use SQL parameters. * Use complex subqueries. * Create and alter tables and views. * Insert, update and delete rows in database tables. * Manage sequences and synonyms. ORACLE SQL TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone who needs to use and understand Oracle SQL to query and update data in an Oracle database. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 3 days ORACLE SQL TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Retrieving data with the SELECT statement The SELECT statement, The SELECT and FROM clauses, Conditions and the WHERE clause, Other conditional operators, Logical operators, The ORDER BY clause, Column aliases, Arithmetic expressions, Precedence of operators. * Aggregate functions Overview of built In aggregate functions, The GROUP BY clause, The HAVING clause. * Joining tables Overview of table joins, Inner joins, Table aliases, Outer joins, Self joins, ANSI standard joins. * Basic subqueries and set operators Overview of subqueries, Basic subqueries, Set operators, The union, intersect and ,minus operators. * Numeric, character and data functions Function types, Using the table dual to try out functions, Numeric functions, Character functions, String concatenation, Date arithmetic and date functions. * Conversion and miscellaneous functions Conversion functions, The NVL and NVL2 functions, The DECODE function, CASE expressions, The COALESCE and NULLIF functions. * SQL parameters Command line substitution parameters, The accept command, The define and undefine commands. * Complex subqueries Subqueries usage, In-line views, Top-N queries, Subqueries with joins, Multi column subqueries, Correlated subqueries, Subquery rules, Using the ANY, ALL and SOME operators. * Managing data Inserting rows, Updating rows, Deleting rows, Verifying updates, Transaction control, Commit and rollback, Savepoints, Commits and constraints, Amending data in SQL developer. * Managing tables Creating tables, Specifying constraints, Altering tables, columns and constraints, Dropping tables, columns and constraints, Recovering dropped tables, Copying tables. * Managing indexes and views Creating indexes, Dropping indexes, Listing indexes, Creating and using views, Dropping views, Listing views. * Managing sequences and synonyms Create a sequence, View sequence details, Create a synonym, List synonyms.

MYSQL FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The MySQL foundation course covers the basics of the SQL language as implemented by MySQL. The course is designed to give delegates practical experience in writing SQL statements using the MySQL client program and MySQL Workbench. The basic SQL statements, including the use of SQL functions and the basic table and view handling statements are introduced. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Create, alter and drop a MySQL database. * Write SQL statements. * Use SQL expressions and functions. * Create and alter tables, indexes and views. * Use transactions. * Grant and revoke access privileges. * Export and import data. MYSQL FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone who needs to access and work with a MySQL Database. * Prerequisites: An understanding of databases and exposure to information technology in general would be useful. * Duration 3 days MYSQL FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Database concepts What is a database? database management systems, tables, rows and columns, indexes, primary keys, unique constraints and foreign keys, client-server architecture, supported data types, storage engines and table types, Information_Schema and MySQL Databases. Hands on using a database. * Using the MySQL client What is the MySQL client? getting started and logging in, selecting a database, client commands, entering and executing SQL statements, retrieving previous commands, creating, editing and executing SQL files, redirecting output into a file, command line execution of MySQL scripts. Hands on Using the MySQL client. * Basic SELECT The SQL SELECT statement, case sensitivity, quotes, statement terminator, syntax conventions, SELECT clause, FROM clause, conditions and the WHERE clause, logical operators, ORDER BY clause, column aliases, arithmetic expressions, precedence of operators. Hands on querying the sample database. * LIMIT, UNION and AGGREGATE functions The LIMIT clause, UNION, UNION ALL, aggregate functions, GROUP BY clause, using Rollup with GROUP BY, HAVING clause. Hands on using limit, union and aggregate functions. * Subqueries and joins Subqueries, cartesian products, table aliases, natural joins, join using, join on, multi-table joins. Hands on using subqueries and joins. * Numeric and character functions Function types, testing functions, numeric functions character functions. Hands on using numeric and character functions. * Data, time and other functions Date and time column types, date and time formats, Date format function, functions to return date time, functions to extract components from date time, date time arithmetic, miscellaneous functions. Hands on using date, time and other functions. * Databases and tables Creating a database, selecting a database, creating tables, Auto_increment, show create table, column operations, constraint operations, copying tables, renaming tables, changing engine for tables, dropping tables, temporary tables. Hands on maintaining databases and tables. * Indexes and views What is an index? creating an index, reviewing indexes, dropping indexes, what is a view? creating views, view restrictions, dropping views. Hands on maintaining indexes and views. * Managing data Inserting rows, replacing rows, updating rows, deleting rows, Truncate statement, The COMMIT and ROLLBACK commands, savepoints, implicit commits. Hands on managing data. * Access control Creating users, renaming users, dropping users, granting privileges, revoking privileges. Hands on creating users, granting and revoking. * Import and export Exporting using SQL, importing using SQL, exporting from the command line, importing from the command line. Hands on export and import data.

A popular 3 day programme aimed at team supervisors and managers. Develop skills in managing yourself, your job and managing others.