MySQL Database Masterclass
The data layer, owned end to end: SQL fluency, real schema design, the programmable database, and the production habits developers are actually judged on.
Syllabus updated August 2026
Recordings are free with a Google sign-in. These recordings show how we teach, not the exact syllabus of this course.
How long this course takes
This course runs 7-8 months (28-32 weeks) at 2 live classes/week + 3-4 hours practice. The range allows for background and pace: a complete beginner uses the full span, and a student with prior knowledge finishes sooner. The syllabus below is planned to the shorter end, with margin kept for revision.
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At a glance
- Who it is for
- Complete beginner; college students and working professionals (18+). Age: 18+; college students, graduates and working professionals.
- Prerequisites
- None for the SQL core; the Python integration weeks are guided and beginner-safe
- Format
- Live, interactive classes with a real instructor, never pre-recorded videos. Live classes run about one hour.
- Language
- English or Hindi, depending on the batch.
- Duration
- 7-8 months (28-32 weeks)
- Weekly commitment
- 2 live classes/week + 3-4 hours practice
- Class size
- Group batches of 5 to 10 students, mini batches of 3 to 4, or 1-on-1.
- Certificate
- Certificate from Modern Age Coders, awarded on passing the final exam
- Watch first
- Free recordings of real classes for ages 13 and up, free with a Google sign-in. These recordings show how we teach, not the exact syllabus of this course.
- Live demo
- Optional. Enroll directly on this page, or book a free live demo if you would like to meet a mentor first.
How we teach
Deep understanding. Real projects. Expert guidance.
Learn coding, AI and maths through careful explanations, practical demonstrations, and hands-on problem-solving. Our instructors guide you from the foundations to advanced ideas, helping you understand what happens, why it happens, and how to build it yourself.
You will explore concepts step by step, write and improve code, investigate mistakes, ask questions, and apply your knowledge to meaningful projects. Lessons are designed around active participation, thoughtful feedback, and growing independence.
Expert-led live teaching, with practical participation built into every lesson.
- Students explain their thinking.
- Instructors demonstrate, then guide practice.
- Learners code, solve, or build during lessons.
- Questions and misconceptions get attention.
- Assignments receive useful feedback.
- Progress is checked before advancing.
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Program Overview
Every application stands on a database, and every serious interview eventually reaches SQL. This live online masterclass takes college students and professionals from zero to genuine capability in seven months: SQL written fluently, schemas designed rather than accumulated, the programmable side of MySQL (views, stored procedures, triggers, transactions), Python integration where data becomes application, and the production basics, security, backups and performance tuning, that separate developers who use databases from developers databases can trust.
The scope is deliberately honest. Full database administration, replication clusters, multi-cloud failover, is its own profession, and courses that staple it onto a beginner syllabus produce neither developers nor DBAs. This course builds the 95% that developers, analysts and interviews actually demand, names the DBA path clearly for those who want it next, and spends the reclaimed months making the fundamentals genuinely deep: joins that never confuse, EXPLAIN read like a native, transactions understood well enough to argue about.
The pace is honest: seven months at two live classes a week plus three to four hours of practice, with an eighth month in hand. Problem sets after every class, monthly mixed reviews, and a final exam, practical plus written, that decides the certificate with a free retest after revision. Real queries, real design, depth over dopamine.
What Makes This Program Different
- Honest scope: the developer 95%, not a stapled-on DBA career track
- Design is taught as a craft: ER modeling, normalization and constraints, practiced on real domains
- The programmable database gets real weeks: views, procedures, triggers and transactions, not a demo each
- EXPLAIN fluency: performance tuning taught as reading, reasoning and measuring
- Ends integrated: MySQL driven from Python, with security, backups and tuning as habits
- Real assessment: weekly problem sets, monthly mixed reviews, and a final exam that decides the certificate, with focused revision and a free retest
Your Learning Journey
Career Progression
Detailed Course Curriculum
Explore the complete week-by-week breakdown of what you'll learn in this comprehensive program.
Topics Covered
- What are databases and why we need them
- Relational vs Non-relational databases
- History and evolution of MySQL
- MySQL vs other databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
- MySQL ecosystem: Community, Enterprise, MariaDB, Percona
- Installing MySQL on Windows, Linux, Mac
- MySQL Workbench installation and setup
- Command-line client basics
- phpMyAdmin and other GUI tools
- Creating your first database
- Understanding schemas and instances
- Basic security during installation
Projects You Build
- Install MySQL on local machine
- Set up MySQL Workbench
- Create first database and tables
- Configure basic security settings
Practice & Assignments
Complete 20 basic database operations
Topics Covered
- Creating databases with CREATE DATABASE
- Dropping databases safely
- Creating tables with CREATE TABLE
- Data types: Numeric (INT, DECIMAL, FLOAT)
- String types (CHAR, VARCHAR, TEXT)
- Date and time types (DATE, TIME, DATETIME, TIMESTAMP)
- Boolean and ENUM types
- Understanding NULL and NOT NULL
- Primary keys and their importance
- AUTO_INCREMENT for automatic numbering
- Altering tables with ALTER TABLE
- Dropping and truncating tables
Projects You Build
- Design employee database schema
- Create online store database structure
- Build student management system tables
- Library management database design
Practice & Assignments
Create 30 different table structures
Topics Covered
- Inserting data with INSERT
- Bulk insert operations
- Updating records with UPDATE
- Safe update practices
- Deleting data with DELETE
- TRUNCATE vs DELETE
- Basic SELECT queries
- Selecting specific columns
- WHERE clause for filtering
- Comparison operators (=, !=, <, >, <=, >=)
- Logical operators (AND, OR, NOT)
- IN and BETWEEN operators
Projects You Build
- Populate employee database with data
- Create product catalog with 1000+ items
- Build customer records system
- Inventory management data setup
Practice & Assignments
Write 100 INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE queries
Topics Covered
- ORDER BY for sorting results
- LIMIT for pagination
- DISTINCT for unique values
- Aliases with AS
- String functions: CONCAT, LENGTH, UPPER, LOWER
- LIKE operator for pattern matching
- Wildcards (% and _)
- Regular expressions in MySQL
- Date functions: NOW, CURDATE, DATE_FORMAT
- Mathematical functions: SUM, AVG, COUNT, MIN, MAX
- GROUP BY for aggregation
- HAVING clause for group filtering
Projects You Build
- Sales reporting queries
- Customer analytics dashboard queries
- Product search functionality
- Date-based report generation
Practice & Assignments
Master 150 SELECT query variations
Assessment
Phase 1 check: a timed SELECT gauntlet on a fresh dataset, plus a mixed review of the whole phase
Topics Covered
- Understanding table relationships
- One-to-One relationships
- One-to-Many relationships
- Many-to-Many relationships
- Foreign keys and referential integrity
- CASCADE options (DELETE, UPDATE)
- Creating foreign key constraints
- Database normalization introduction
- First Normal Form (1NF)
- Second Normal Form (2NF)
- Third Normal Form (3NF)
- Denormalization when and why
Projects You Build
- Design blog database with posts and comments
- E-commerce database with orders and products
- School database with students and courses
- Social media database schema
Practice & Assignments
Design 20 relational database schemas
Topics Covered
- Understanding JOIN operations
- INNER JOIN deep dive
- LEFT JOIN (LEFT OUTER JOIN)
- RIGHT JOIN (RIGHT OUTER JOIN)
- CROSS JOIN
- Self joins for hierarchical data
- Multiple table joins
- Using aliases in joins
- Natural joins
- Join performance considerations
- UNION operations
- INTERSECT and EXCEPT alternatives
Projects You Build
- Employee-Department-Salary reports
- Order-Customer-Product analysis
- Multi-table inventory system
- Hierarchical organization chart
Practice & Assignments
Write 100 complex JOIN queries
Topics Covered
- Understanding subqueries
- Subqueries in SELECT clause
- Subqueries in FROM clause
- Subqueries in WHERE clause
- Correlated vs non-correlated subqueries
- EXISTS and NOT EXISTS
- ANY, ALL, SOME operators
- Subqueries vs JOINs performance
- Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
- Recursive CTEs
- UNION and UNION ALL
- Combining multiple result sets
Projects You Build
- Complex reporting with subqueries
- Hierarchical data queries with CTEs
- Performance comparison study
- PHASE 1 CAPSTONE: Complete Database Application
Assessment
Phase 1 comprehensive SQL exam
Topics Covered
- Database design methodology
- Requirements gathering
- Conceptual design with ER diagrams
- Logical design and normalization
- Physical design considerations
- Denormalization strategies
- Partitioning tables
- Vertical vs horizontal partitioning
- Sharding concepts
- Archive strategies
- Multi-tenant database design
- Temporal database design
- Database refactoring
- Migration strategies
Projects You Build
- Design multi-tenant SaaS database
- Implement table partitioning
- Create temporal data system
- Database migration project
Practice & Assignments
Design 10 complex database systems
Assessment
Phase 2 exam: design and defend a schema live from a brief, plus mixed questions from phase 1
Topics Covered
- Creating and using views
- Updatable vs non-updatable views
- View algorithms (MERGE, TEMPTABLE)
- Security with views
- Materialized views alternatives
- Understanding indexes
- B-Tree vs Hash indexes
- Creating indexes strategically
- Composite indexes
- Unique indexes
- Full-text indexes
- Spatial indexes
- Index hints
- Analyzing index usage
Projects You Build
- Create view layer for application
- Index optimization for slow queries
- Full-text search implementation
- Performance improvement study
Practice & Assignments
Create 50 views and optimize with indexes
Topics Covered
- Introduction to stored procedures
- Creating procedures with CREATE PROCEDURE
- IN, OUT, INOUT parameters
- Variables and data types
- Control flow: IF, CASE, LOOP, WHILE
- REPEAT and LEAVE statements
- Error handling with DECLARE HANDLER
- Cursors for row-by-row processing
- Nested procedures
- Procedure security and permissions
Projects You Build
- Order processing system procedures
- Automated reporting procedures
- Data validation procedures
- Batch processing system
Practice & Assignments
Write 40 stored procedures
Topics Covered
- ACID properties explained
- Starting transactions: BEGIN, START TRANSACTION
- COMMIT and ROLLBACK
- Savepoints in transactions
- Autocommit mode
- Isolation levels: READ UNCOMMITTED, READ COMMITTED
- REPEATABLE READ, SERIALIZABLE
- Dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, phantom reads
- Locking mechanisms in MySQL
- Table locks vs row locks
- Deadlock detection and resolution
- Optimistic vs pessimistic locking
- Lock wait timeouts
- Transaction best practices
Projects You Build
- Banking transaction system
- Inventory management with concurrency
- Booking system with lock handling
- Deadlock simulation and resolution
Practice & Assignments
Implement 20 transactional scenarios
Topics Covered
- Python MySQL connectors
- PyMySQL vs mysql-connector-python
- Establishing connections
- Executing queries from Python
- Prepared statements
- Fetching results
- Connection pooling
- ORM with SQLAlchemy
- Database migrations with Alembic
- Async database operations
- Error handling in Python
- Transaction management
- Building data access layer
- Best practices for Python-MySQL
Projects You Build
- Python database application
- REST API with MySQL backend
- Data migration script
- ORM-based application
Practice & Assignments
Build 10 Python-MySQL applications
Assessment
Phase 3 exam: a procedure-plus-transaction task built live, with cumulative questions from phases 1-2
Topics Covered
- MySQL security model
- User account management
- CREATE USER and ALTER USER
- Password policies and validation
- Authentication plugins
- Privileges and GRANT system
- Database, table, column privileges
- Stored routine privileges
- Proxy users and roles
- SSL/TLS configuration
Projects You Build
- Implement role-based access control
- SSL setup for production
- Security audit of database
- User management system
Practice & Assignments
Configure 20 different security scenarios
Topics Covered
- Performance tuning methodology
- Identifying bottlenecks
- EXPLAIN and query analysis
- EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON
- Visual EXPLAIN in Workbench
- Slow query log analysis
- Performance Schema introduction
- Key performance metrics
- Buffer pool tuning
- Query cache (deprecated but historical)
Projects You Build
- Performance baseline establishment
- Slow query optimization
- Server tuning project
- Performance monitoring setup
Practice & Assignments
Optimize 50 slow queries
Topics Covered
- The capstone: a complete database product for a real domain
- Schema designed and reviewed before data
- The query set: hard questions your database answers fast
- Procedures and transactions where they earn their place
- Security, backup and an EXPLAIN-verified performance pass
- Documentation another developer could onboard from
Projects You Build
- The capstone: designed, secured, tuned, Python-connected and documented
Practice & Assignments
Daily capstone progress; schema frozen by day 3
Topics Covered
- Presenting the capstone: schema, queries, decisions, measurements
- A full-course spiral review before the exam
- Where each path leads: data analytics, full-stack, or the dedicated DBA road
Projects You Build
- Demo day presentation delivered to the batch
Assessment
FINAL EXAM: a practical database build plus a written paper with questions mixed from every phase. Passing earns the certificate; falling short earns a focused revision plan and a free retest
Projects You'll Build
Build a professional portfolio with 15+ database builds and query projects, crowned by a production-shaped capstone real-world projects.
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Transform your career with industry-ready skills and job placement support.
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Straight answers about MySQL Course: SQL, Database Design and Real Administration
- Who should take this course?
- Complete beginner; college students and working professionals (18+). Age: 18+; college students, graduates and working professionals. It suits students who want the dbms course their degree gestures at, taught until it is actually owned; anyone whose next interview round includes sql, which is nearly everyone; working developers who copy-paste queries and want to stop.
- What will they learn and build?
- Every application stands on a database, and every serious interview eventually reaches SQL.
- How deeply are topics covered?
- The course runs 7-8 months (28-32 weeks) at 2 live classes/week + 3-4 hours practice, across 4 phases listed week by week in the syllabus below. A structured, well-paced curriculum taught step by step, with classwork in every session and problem sets after every class.
- Who teaches it?
- Modern Age Coders mentors, who teach the live classes themselves. You can watch them at work in the free class recordings before you decide.
- How do practice, feedback and assessment work?
- Monthly mixed reviews and a final exam that decides the certificate: real knowledge, real work. Doubt support between classes over WhatsApp, so you are never left stuck. A certificate you earn by passing the final exam, with a free retest after revision if needed.
- What does it cost?
- Three monthly plans: a group batch, a mini batch and 1-on-1. Prices are shown in your currency in the plans section. Monthly billing, cancel any time.
- When can classes take place?
- Live classes are scheduled around your week. Group batches meet at a fixed weekly slot; 1-on-1 students choose their own. International students are scheduled in their own timezone. Ask on WhatsApp for the current slots.
- Can I watch the teaching before deciding?
- Yes. Full recordings of real 13 and up classes are free to watch, free with a Google sign-in. These recordings show how we teach, not the exact syllabus of this course. Some classes are in English and some in Hindi; everyone follows at their own pace. Watch a class end to end, like you are in it. Sessions are interactive and each moment builds on the last.
- Can I enroll without a live demo?
- Yes. Choose a plan on this page and enroll directly; a booking or a demo is not required. A free live demo is optional, for anyone who wants to meet a mentor first. Outside India, our team confirms the plan and completes payment with you over WhatsApp, so allow a little time for that step.
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