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MongoDB for the DBA
MongoDB is a powerful database featuring a flexible document-oriented approach for organizing data rather than the traditional fixed-schema tabular model. With its robust durability and scalability...
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MongoDB is a powerful database featuring a flexible document-oriented approach for organizing data rather than the traditional fixed-schema tabular model. With its robust durability and scalability mechanisms, MongoDB became massively popular for workloads of any size.
Ascendient Learning's MongoDB training goes well beyond basic MongoDB concepts and includes specific topics important to those charged with running, monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting MongoDB clusters. Students learn the basics of MongoDB as a database, including installation, basic querying, and data manipulation. Attendees also learn how to handle administrative tasks such as installation, backup, performance tuning, replica sets, and sharded clusters.
Skills Gained
- Operate and install MongoDB clusters
- Learn basic data manipulation and query sytnax
- Work with performance tuning
- Understand monitoring
- Create a backup strategy
- Understand storage internals
- Work with Replica Sets and replication
- Understand Sharding and scalability
Prerequisites
- Have experience in developing database-backed applications
- Know basic JavaScript
- Be comfortable working in the shell (Bash or PowerShell or Cmd.exe)
Course Details
Training Materials
All students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- Computer with Internet connectivity
- Ability to install software on the computer
- Recent 64-bit OS, such as Windows 10, macOS, or Linux
Outline
- Introduction
- MongoDB Overview
- What is MongoDB?
- What is a Document-Oriented database?
- The differences from relational databases
- Databases, Collections, and documents
- Running MongoDB
- Zero-footprint using command line
- Using the Configuration file
- Understanding key configuration choices
- CRUD basics
- Creating documents
- Finding documents
- Updating documents
- Deleting documents
- Backup & Restore
- Backing up MongoDB
- Restoring MongoDB
- Storage snapshot
- Importing and exporting data
- Log rotation
- Aggregation
- The aggregation pipeline
- Major pipeline stages
- Key aggregation operators
- Replica Sets
- Durability
- Automatic failover
- Elections and server roles
- Read and write concerns
- The Oplog
- Sharding
- Understanding sharding mechanics
- Sharded cluster components
- Creating a sharded cluster
- The sharding key and data distribution
- Indexing and Query Tuning
- Index types
- Index direction
- Covering index
- Query planner
- Monitoring
- Server Statistics
- Log and logging levels
- Profiling
- Using command line tools
- Production Notes
- Sharding and Scale Up
- WiredTiger, memory and CPU
- Sizing Oplog
- OS specific notes
- Conclusion
Schedule
FAQ
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.
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Ascendient Learning instructors have an average of 27 years of practical IT experience and have also served as consultants for an average of 15 years. To stay current, instructors spend at least 25 percent of their time learning new, emerging technologies and courses.
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Class was very informative, although one lab didnt but will try again later
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Courseware was effective but would like to have some PDF material on BPML and XPATH
Simply great training provider that I can go for updating/acquiring my skill sets.
