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AI for Database & SQL Professionals

Write, tune, and document SQL faster, while keeping every result tested and defensible.

Hands-on with Claude and ChatGPT | 16 guided hours | Live online or in person

  • Generate and explain SQL with AI assistance

  • Troubleshoot slow and incorrect queries

  • Plan and review database designs

  • Document schemas and procedures faster

  • Choose a track for growing in your role or finding your next one

Target Audience

  • Database developers who want to work faster with AI

  • Database administrators handling tuning and troubleshooting

  • SQL analysts writing queries for business teams

  • Working database professionals seeking growth or promotion

  • Database and SQL professionals looking for work

AI for Database & SQL Professionals Overview

This hands-on course builds on the experience you already have, so it does not start you from zero. Across eight Skill Sprints, you use Claude and ChatGPT on practice databases to write queries, diagnose problems, review designs, and document your work. Every Skill Sprint ends with a small result you can use, explain, or build on.

  • Mostly hands on: you build each skill by doing it

  • A checking habit: you learn to catch AI errors before they matter

  • Guidance throughout: progress reviews show where you need support and what to do next

  • Two tracks: choose workplace growth or job search, with shared skills at the core

Delivered using OCA’s Skill Sprint™ Method with hands-on practice, real-world exercises, and instructor-led feedback.

Prerequisites

The following are needed before you start:

  • Working experience with SQL or database administration, however recent

  • A computer with internet access

  • Claude and ChatGPT accounts, with the plans confirmed before you start

  • Looking for Work track: your current resume and LinkedIn profile

All practice databases and sample queries are included in your course material, so you never need to use confidential or employer data. This course is designed and delivered independently by Ohio Computer Academy and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain how AI works, why it makes mistakes, and what is safe to share

  • Generate and improve complex SQL with AI assistance

  • Diagnose slow queries and propose tested fixes

  • Review database designs and document them clearly

  • Working track: make query requests and database documentation faster and easier to document, and show the value of your work to your manager and stakeholders

  • Looking for Work track: present your experience on LinkedIn, on your resume, and in interviews, and run a daily routine of practice, connections, applications, and follow ups

Workplace Applications & Career Skills

The skills learned in this course apply directly to:

  • Query writing and review

  • Performance troubleshooting

  • Schema design and review

  • Data validation

  • Stored procedure documentation

  • Requests from business teams

  • Database Developer and SQL Developer roles

  • Database Administrator roles

  • Data and reporting support roles

Curriculum

For people with experience in this field who want to return to it or move into a new role. Skill Sprints 2 to 4 are the same in both tracks, and each track runs as its own cohort.

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$850   
  • Instructor-Led: Live Online or In Person

  • 16 Total Hours

  • 8 Skill Sprints

  • Working Experience in the Field

  • Two Tracks to Choose From

  • Real-World Project

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Why This Course Is in Demand

AI can write a query in seconds, but a query that runs is not always a query that is correct, safe, or fast.

AI for Database & SQL Professionals builds these skills through practical work, with a habit of checking AI output before it is used.