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Database Administration Fundamentals
Take your MySQL skills beyond basic setup into full production ownership. This path covers backup and recovery strategy, high availability and failover, performance monitoring and troubleshooting, and security hardening with automation. Built for Database Administrators, System Administrators, and Systems Engineers, you'll learn to protect data against loss and downtime, resolve real-world performance incidents, and secure MySQL environments against modern threats through realistic, hands-on lab scenarios.
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Performance & Security Operations
With recoverability in place, this section shifts to keeping a MySQL environment running well and running safely, diagnosing and resolving performance issues, automating routine maintenance, and hardening security beyond default configurations.
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What You'll Learn
- Protect MySQL data from loss and downtime with backup, recovery, and high availability.
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues before they become outages.
- Harden MySQL security beyond defaults and automate the checks that keep it that way.
- -- Data Protection & Availability ---
- 1\. MySQL Backup, Recovery & High Availability Operations (video)
- 2\. MySQL Disaster Recovery & Failover (lab)
- -- Performance & Security Operations ---
- 3\. MySQL Performance Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Automated Maintenance (video)
- 4\. MySQL Security Hardening & Operational Automation (video)
- 5\. MySQL Performance & Security (lab)
- Learners should already be comfortable operating a MySQL database day-to-day: creating and configuring databases, managing users and permissions, and moving data in and out through import/export. This path doesn't teach basic database setup or access control from scratch; it builds specialized, production-ownership skills, including backup and recovery, performance troubleshooting, and security hardening, on top of that foundation.
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