DP-800 Microsoft SQL AI Developer Associate Course 2026

About this course

Are you preparing for the Microsoft DP-800: SQL AI Developer Associate certification? This ultimate course is designed to take you from foundational concepts to advanced, exam-ready skills with a perfect blend of theory and hands-on practice.You’ll begin by mastering database objects such as tables, indexes, column store indexes, and sequences, while learning how to enforce integrity with constraints like PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, UNIQUE, CHECK, and DEFAULT. From there, you’ll explore specialized tables including in-memory, temporal, external, ledger, and graph tables.The course dives deep into JSON support and functions, regular expressions, and fuzzy string matching to help you handle modern data challenges. You’ll sharpen your T-SQL skills with Common Table Expressions (CTEs), window functions, and graph queries using the MATCH operator. Programmability objects such as views, scalar functions, table-valued functions, stored procedures, and triggers are covered in detail.Security and optimization are a major focus: you’ll implement encryption, dynamic data masking, row-level security, auditing, and passwordless access, while learning to resolve deadlocks, blocking issues, and optimize queries using DMVs, Query Store, and Query Performance Insight. You’ll also gain practical exposure to CI/CD practices with SQL Database Projects, secrets management, schema drift detection, and deployment pipelines.Finally, the course equips you with cutting-edge AI capabilities: embeddings, vector search, semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and integration with GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). You’ll learn how to design intelligent search solutions, build hybrid search strategi

Course objectives

• prepare for the DP-800 certification
• gain practical experience in SQL development
• learn to design intelligent search solutions