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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

By : Kate Gawron
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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

5 (1)
By: Kate Gawron

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is one of the most challenging AWS certifications. It validates your comprehensive understanding of databases, including the concepts of design, migration, deployment, access, maintenance, automation, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting. With this guide, you'll understand how to use various AWS databases, such as Aurora Serverless and Global Database, and even services such as Redshift and Neptune. You’ll start with an introduction to the AWS databases, and then delve into workload-specific database design. As you advance through the chapters, you'll learn about migrating and deploying the databases, along with database security techniques such as encryption, auditing, and access controls. This AWS book will also cover monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery techniques, before testing all the knowledge you've gained throughout the book with the help of mock tests. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the DBS-C01 AWS certification exam and have a handy, on-the-job desk reference guide.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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2
Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview
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Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design
12
Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Converting a database using SCT

Once you have completed the assessments and decided on a target database, you can use SCT to assist in converting the database objects and code. SCT carries out the following tasks:

  • SCT installs an extension pack that contains common functions that can be used in converted database code. This extension pack is supplied within the SCT program.
  • SCT checks all DDL statements in the source database and attempts to recreate those in the language of the target. This includes tables, views, indexes, and more.
  • SCT attempts to convert the database's code into the target database's code.
  • For those who cannot automatically convert either using the native code of the target database or via the added extension pack functions, it provides a report that shows where the issues with the conversion are and what action you need to take to resolve them.

Figure 10.2 showed some example output of an assessment report for a SQL Server source...