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Migrating Your Existing SQL Server Estate to Amazon's RDS (Udemy.com)

Learn Real World Techniques For Moving Your Production SQL Servers To Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS

3.2
135 reviews

Created by: Mike West

Last updated June 2015

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What you will learn

  • Move Your Existing SQL Server Databases To Amazon's Relational Database Service.
  • Learn The Benefits To Amazon's Relational Database Service
  • Design Real World Solutions For Moving SQL Server To RDS

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  • Rating3.2 out of 5among the lower-rated ones
  • Reviews135#327 of 389 by number of reviews
  • Length1.5 hoursshorter than 91% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2015earlier than 98% of them

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Course Description

This course focuses on moving SQL Server Databases to Amazon's RDS SERVICE. Amazon's cloud is called AWS which stands for Amazon Web Services and their database offering is called RDS or Relational Database Service.

Before WE get started I would like to share MY excitement on co-authoring my first course. I will be working with noted cloud expert Ryan Kroonenburg. This is the first course I'm co-authoring and couldn't be more excited about working with author and AWS Could Architect Ryan Kroonenburg. Ryan's been teaching AWS centric courses on Udemy for quite some time and his courses are the most highly rated AWS courses available.

HOW is this course different from my course titled How To Become a SQL Server Cloud Architect on AWS? This course is more focused on MIGRATING your on premise databases to RDS. We will be solely focused on RDS and walk through several migration and post migration STRATEGIES.

This course is NOT for any of the current AWS certifications. Currently, there are NO database specific certifications for Amazon's RDS platform.

This course WILL give you the skills necessary to move SQL Server Database to Amazon's cloud. The course will provide YOU with REAL WORLD examples on how to MOVE your existing database to the cloud.

Amazon's control 58% of the cloud market and is spending approximately a BILLION a year on cementing that lead over it's closest competition, which is Microsoft Azure. Currently, Azure comes in second at 12%.

As a SQL Server Consultant I can tell you that many of my customers are MOVING to Amazon's various cloud offerings.

There are still many LIMITATIONS and nuances to moving SQL Server Databases to the cloud. We will discuss many of these in the course.

The code, applications, and TOOLS (like Management Studio) you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS AUTOMATICALLY patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery.

Amazon RDS makes it easy to use replication to enhance availability and reliability for production workloads. Using the Multi-AZ deployment option you can run MISSION CRITICAL workloads with high availability and built-in automated fail-over from your primary database to a synchronously replicated secondary database in case of a failure.

Availability zone replication is very much like having a built in SQL Server Cluster with the click of a button. This course will set up SQL Server Availability Zones for our HIGH AVAILABILITY needs.

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Instructor Details

Mike West

I'm the founder of LogikBot. I've worked at Microsoft and Uber. I helped design courses for Microsoft's Data Science Certifications. If you're interested in machine learning, I can help.

I've worked with databases for over two decades. I've worked for or consulted with over 50 different companies as a full time employee or consultant. Fortune 500 as well as several small to mid-size companies. Some include: Georgia Pacific, SunTrust, Reed Construction Data, Building Systems Design, NetCertainty, The Home Shopping Network, SwingVote, Atlanta Gas and Light and Northrup Grumman. 

Over the last five years I've transitioned to the exciting world of applied machine learning.  I'm excited to show you what I've learned and help you move into one of the single most important fields in this space.

Experience, education and passion 

I learn something almost every day. I work with insanely smart people. I'm a voracious learner of all things SQL Server and I'm passionate about sharing what I've learned. My area of concentration is performance tuning. SQL Server is like an exotic sports car, it will run just fine in anyone's hands but put it in the hands of skilled tuner and it will perform like a race car. 

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3.2

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By Marilyn Drake on 5/18/2020

Completely Outdated! They waste too much time on basic SQL Server processes, does not get into just compare differences

By Techministry on 10/14/2019

Waste, other than export import of of data nothing is majorly covered. - No limitations explained - Backup and resore not covered - Other Components not covered - Multi AZ no discussion - DMS not covered - SCT not touhed - Overall wasting our money

By Anonymized User on 11/5/2018

It's a good match for me but trainer voice is not clear and we need to concentrate a lot to understand what he's saying. Rayn can do this better with his voice, hopefully voice will update soon for this course.

By Siva Chaitanya Varma Konduru on 12/21/2017

Ryan would have been the tutor. Current tutor way of teaching is not good and not active enough to communicate things.

By Anonymized User on 8/11/2017

Content seems to be good as it Mike try to keep it simple .Its good to know what we can do with RDS as DBA . I look forward to attend other courses of Mike related to SQL server on AWS. I would recommend DBAs to attend this course

By Larry Eisenstein on 3/10/2017

Good course, but it there were duplicate lectures and it would be nice if they would update the information when major things change.

By Bert (GC) van der Lingen on 1/7/2017

Recommended course if you want to migrate you on-premises databases - for testing or production purposes to Amazon AWS' managed database service RDS

By Peter Bickford on 6/16/2016

Good coverage of multiple methods of moving, but omitted two major points: (1) moving/setting permissions on objects (I have hundreds of stored procedures--is there no way to ease the setting of permissions on these?), and (2) Dealing with failure cases with some of the more basic methods (foreign key constraints, etc.). Also needs to be updated to note that SQL server 2014 is now supported.

By Harsh Gupta on 8/4/2015

Except for some missing information at 1 place, i find instructor prompt enough to solve queries via chat and mail

By Gaurav Kamboj on 6/11/2015

Before joining this course a had a very brief & overall idea about RDS. I knew how to spin up RDS instance and I also connected one to my WordPress site following Ryan's instruction to MySQL on RDS. This course entirely focuses on MS SQL and is a must if you are starting with RDS. By the end of this course I came to know that all I knew earlier was only 15% of how RDS works. AWS doesn't portray well - what will work and what will not by moving your SQL database to cloud. All the shortcomings are well highlighted and explained by Mike. I wish the course had more lectures (like networking, security and best practices related to RDS) but I think you guys will cover it in the upcoming series. Thank you Mike & Ryan. Eagerly waiting for your next course on RDS.

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