Overview

PingCAP offers well-designed online courses and private training to help users get ramped quickly on TiDB and TiDB Cloud. Backend developers, database administrators and operations professionals can benefit from the training program and demonstrate their expertise by earning a globally recognized certification.

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Database Operation Courses

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TiDB Essentials for DBA

The course focuses on the architecture and design principles of TiDB, which is the basis for administration, development, performance tuning and troubleshooting.

  • Audience: Database administrators
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Duration: 1 day
  • Prerequisites: Basic computer, operating system, network and database knowledge; Ability to read simple SQL statements.
  • TiDB Version: v6.1

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TiDB Administration

This course guides you learn about managing TiDB. Understand TiDB's data migration, replication and backup recover method, as well as the scenarios and basic usage of the common ecosystem tools.

  • Audience: Database administrators
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Duration: 3 days
  • Prerequisites: You have completed TiDB Essentials for DBA, or you should be familiar with distributed database operation and administer or equivalent work experience.
  • TiDB Version: v6.1
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Developer Courses

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Introduction to TiDB

This course provides an overview of TiDB. It introduces TiDB's core components and the advantages of TiDB's architecture.

  • Audience: Architects, Developers and Database administrators
  • Level: Introductory
  • Duration: 1.5 hours
  • Prerequisites: None
  • TiDB Version: v6.1

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Learn SQL with TiDB

This course teaches you how to write SQL queries. More importantly, it takes performance into consideration at the very first place. Most of the content in the course is also compatible with MySQL. Learners can understand the compatibility of TiDB and MySQL in the course by practice.

  • Audience: SQL developer beginners
  • Level: Introductory
  • Duration: 1 day
  • Prerequisites: You know how to connect to TiDB with the MySQL Client.
  • TiDB Version: v6.1

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Working with TiDB from Java

This course guides you through a series of concepts and hands-on best practices to implement read and write operations via Java applications. It focuses on the JDBC driver perspective to get the audience ready to face any Java based ORM frameworks.

  • Audience: SQL and Java developers
  • Level: Introductory
  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Prerequisites: Experience with Java programming and SQL
  • TiDB Version: v6.1

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Working with TiDB from Python

This course guides you through a series of concepts and hands-on best practices to implement read and write operations via Python applications. It focuses on the connectors perspective to get the audience ready to face any Python based ORM frameworks.

  • Audience: SQL and Python developers
  • Level: Introductory
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Prerequisites: Experience with Python programming and SQL
  • TiDB Version: v6.1

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Working with TiDB from PHP

This course guides you through a series of concepts and hands-on best practices to implement read and write operations via PHP. Two APIs are introduced: mysqli and PDO_MySQL.

  • Audience: SQL and PHP developers
  • Level: Introductory
  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Prerequisites: Experience with PHP programming and SQL
  • TiDB Version: v6.1

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Kickstart Workshops

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TiDB Cloud Kickstart Workshop

This workshop contains a collection of hands-on labs and tasks to help you gain an understanding of TiDB Cloud features.

  • Participants: Architects, Developers and Database administrators
  • Level: Introductory
  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Prerequisites: Basic computer, operating system, network and database knowledge

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TiDB Specific Features Workshop

This workshop will help you understand the unique features of TiDB and TiDB Cloud, with a series of hands-on exercises.

  • Audience: Architects, Developers and Database administrators
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Duration: 4.5 hours
  • Prerequisites: Experienced with SQL queries and basic knowledge with DML and DDL on MySQL compatible RDBMS.
  • TiDB Version: v6.1

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TiDB Cloud

Get the massive scale and resiliency of TiDB databases in a fully managed cloud service

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TiDB

TiDB is effortlessly scalable, open, and trusted to meet the real-time needs of the digital enterprise