Nine programs, one operational practice.

A four-week start for IT staff stepping into database administration — readable queries, safe writes, and a working mental model of how relational engines plan work.

Six weeks for operators who already deploy PostgreSQL and now have to keep it healthy through patch days, table bloat, and the slow drift of running systems.

A four-week cohort for teams running MySQL or MariaDB in mid-volume estates — replication, binlog hygiene, and the day-to-day discipline of keeping the writer node honest.

Four practical weeks for administrators inheriting a SQL Server estate alongside other engines — health checks, Always On listeners, and a sensible first month plan.

Six weeks dedicated to query plans, index design, and the careful art of measuring before you change. Bring three slow queries and leave with three fast ones.

A focused two-week intensive on backup verification, point-in-time recovery, and the operational habits that make a 03:00 restore feel boring rather than brave.

An eight-week deep program for senior practitioners who want to refactor large query sets — set-based rewrites, materialised view strategy, and discipline around testing.

A six-week corporate program for IT teams of four to twelve — internal labs against your own anonymised schemas, with a closing review attended by your engineering leadership.

A four-week program on the human side of recovery — leading an incident, writing a post-mortem worth reading, and building rotation practices that do not exhaust the team.