SQL Server training and technical instruction
Complex architecture has to be explained before it can be agreed to, and explaining it well is a separate skill from designing it.
Aurora Data delivers SQL Server training, technical instruction and curriculum development, drawing on Microsoft Certified Trainer accreditation held for thirty years alongside the architecture practice.
Sessions are built around your platform and your team’s starting point rather than delivered from a fixed catalogue, which matters most when the audience is a mix of analysts, engineers and the people who sign off the design.
What the work covers
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SQL Server, from fundamentals to internals
Pitched at the room, whether that is a team new to the platform or engineers who need the level below the documentation.
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Performance tuning and query optimisation
Reading plans, indexing decisions and the habits that stop the same problem being rediscovered every quarter.
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Database and solution design
Modelling and design choices, and the trade-offs behind them, taught against your own workloads where possible.
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Architecture workshops
Facilitated sessions that get a room of stakeholders to a decision rather than to a longer list of options.
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Curriculum development
Structured material your organisation keeps and reuses, rather than slides that leave when the trainer does.
How an engagement runs
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Scoping
What the team already knows, what they need to be able to do afterwards, and how much time you genuinely have.
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Tailored delivery
Sessions built for that audience and that platform, delivered on site or remotely.
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Follow-through
Material handed over, and mentoring afterwards where the skill needs practice rather than another session.
Questions people ask
Are courses tailored or off the shelf?
Tailored. Content is built around your platform, your data and the starting point of the people in the room, which is the difference between a course people sit through and one they use on Monday.
Can training be delivered on site?
Yes, on site in Brisbane and across Australia, or remotely where that suits the group better.
Is training only for technical teams?
No. A significant part of the work is explaining architecture to the people who have to approve and fund it, which is a different session to the one an engineering team needs.
Talk it through
Engagements start with a conversation about what you have and what is actually in the way. If that sounds useful, send an email and describe the situation in a paragraph or two.
Background on the practice is on the home page, and on the architect leading it on the profile page.