MCA Microsoft SQL AI Developer Associate & AI Fundamentals Certification (AI-901, DP-800) Boot Camp

Upcoming Sessions

Scroll to see additional dates.

Date

Location / Format

Price

Oct 5–9, 2026

Sarasota, FL · Onsite

$3,495.00

Get Your Quote

Training a team? Get a customized Team Quote Volume pricing available for groups and corporate training.

Upcoming Sessions Microsoft SQL AI Developer & AI Fundamentals

Oct 5–9, 2026

Get Quote

Course Details

MCA Microsoft SQL AI Developer Associate & AI Fundamentals Certification (AI-901, DP-800) Boot Camp

Duration

5 Days

Exams Covered

AI-901 / DP-800

Delivery

Classroom Live
Remote Live

Included

Vouchers + Retake + Official Labs

Why Thousands Choose Career Camps

17+ Years of Training Experience

For more than 17 years, professionals and organizations have relied on our training expertise to build in-demand technology skills, prepare for industry certifications, and advance their teams.

5,000+ Professionals Trained

With 5,000+ professionals trained, we bring extensive experience supporting individuals, enterprise teams, government organizations, and military clients with technology skills and certification training.

Trusted by Professionals & Organizations

Trusted by thousands of IT professionals, businesses, government organizations, and enterprise teams for high-quality certification training and technology skills development.

Access to 10+ Training Providers

Get access to training from 10+ established certification training providers, giving you more options to find the right course, schedule, delivery format, and training solution for your certification goals.

Live Certified Instructors

Learn directly from experienced certified instructors—not prerecorded videos or self-paced material.

Official Training

Train with authorized, official courseware and curriculum from leading technology certification providers. Get the same industry-recognized training designed to prepare professionals for today’s most in-demand certifications and technology roles.

Course Description

Description

Accelerate your Microsoft Azure AI and SQL AI development skills with this intensive, instructor-led 5-day SQL AI Developer Boot Camp. This accelerated training combines Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals with advanced SQL AI Developer skills, giving IT professionals and developers a streamlined path to building and deploying AI-powered database solutions using Microsoft technologies.

Throughout this hands-on SQL AI Developer training, students progress from foundational artificial intelligence and generative AI concepts to implementing AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry, SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric. The course focuses on practical, real-world skills for integrating AI capabilities with organizational data and developing modern intelligent applications.

Students will learn how to work with generative AI workloads, AI application development, advanced T-SQL, database security, performance optimization, and SQL Database Projects. The boot camp also explores vector search, embeddings, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), teaching students how to connect generative AI models to an organization’s proprietary data to create more relevant and context-aware AI solutions.

EXAMS INCLUDED

AI-901: Azure AI Fundamentals
DP-800: SQL AI Developer Associate

Prerequisites

Experience with SQL and relational databases
Basic understanding of cloud data platforms
Familiarity with application development concepts

Our Facilities

CAREER CAMPS FACILITIES

CAMPUS – Career Camps built out a stand alone training center (not a hotel conference room) with spacious classrooms, new desk, Herman Miller Aeron chairs & comfortable common areas. Each student has a dedicated desk with two monitors. Each classroom has a maximum of two rows – so everyone is able to be engaged without the “back row” feeling.

CLASSROOM EQUIPMENT – Students work on a dedicated Dell Client Desktop with 32GB memory with 512GB SSD drives – All Labs are executed the extremely fast Microsoft Data Center Hosted Lab Environment.

CAMPUS INTERNET – The campus is connected with a 1Gbps (1,000 Mbps) Verizon Fios Business Connection which provides complete internet (including VPN) access for students.

COMMON AREA – Amenities including snacks, drinks (Coffee, 100% juices, sodas, etc) all complimentary.

LODGING – We use the Hyatt Place Lakewood Ranch. This “upgraded” hotel offers extremely comfortable beds, great breakfast and very fast internet access.

NEAR BY AMENITIES – Many shops, restaurants and grocery options are available within walking distance. Additionally – the hotel provided scheduled shuttle services. Restaurants like Bone Fish Grill, Ruby Tuesday’s, Five Guys, Chipotle, Quiznos, Chili’s and over 20 additional choices in the immediate area. All of these options are offered in a pedestrian walking village.

Why Choose Us

CAREER CAMPS DIFFERENCE

Career Camps provides an in-depth hands on learning environment. Our instructors teach using demonstrations and explain concepts beyond the scope of the courseware. The best instructors are contracted from all across the US. These professionals are real world consultants who actually implement these technologies. Career Camps knows our clients work in the “real world” and it only makes sense to have an instructor with the experience in the real world.

Facilities – Many of our competitors over-crowd classrooms by placing 2 to 3 students per desk and 20+ students per instructor. Often these companies “extend” the life of very old equipment with slow performance on the software used today. Our average class size is 8 students. Our facilities have the best equipment with the most comfortable, focused environment for learning.

Instructors – Our CEO, Chester Flake holds one of the rarest Microsoft Certifications – the Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant (MCLC) Certification. This certification reflects a commitment to make sure our instructors are also actively engaged in real world consulting projects. Students expect a professional who can answer questions and demonstrate the technology.

Face to Face Training – We believe the best way to interact and learn is face to face training. Many of our competitors which offer local training are simply providing students with headphones/mic to attend class with an instructor at a remote location.

Test Pass – We offer a free retake voucher (if needed) for each of the exams required for certification. Any training center offering a “100% pass guarantee” would have to use unethical practices or unlimited test vouchers (which is not likely or practical).

Distractions – Students often look for a “local” training center so they can be close to home and work. Boot camp requires a tremendous time commitment during the program. Long class hours combined with self study each evening. The goal of boot camp is to achieve certification in a fraction of the time. We strongly recommend students attend camp away from home and work in a focused, distraction free environment.

Boot Camp – Boot camp is an accelerated training focused on teaching technology and testing students on the official exams. Most training providers “added” boot camps to the existing standard training classes they offer. These training centers think a boot camp is just a regular class where you send the student home with a voucher on the last day. Career Camps administers exams throughout the camp. Equally important – not every trainer can teach a boot camp and not all courseware is designed for boot camp format. Our trainers know the boot camp format and our courseware is designed for accelerated learning.

Florida – Career Camps has one of the most scenic locations boasting some of the best weather in US. We believe students should have a comfortable and inviting atmosphere while attending these otherwise intense programs. We place our location, facilities and amenities up against that any competitor.

Microsoft Gold Learning Partner

Career Camps has developed a comprehensive training / delivery format which focuses on learning beyond the core content accessible to any Microsoft training provider. Our program incorporates interactive demonstrations with explanations which go beyond the content of the book. Additional content, videos, labs & demonstrations are provided to expand on advanced topics – providing additional insight and perspective.

Career Camps training is not the typical book & PowerPoint presentation found at any local training center.

As a Microsoft Certified Partner with Gold Learning Competency – we adhere to the strict guidelines, standards and requirements to use Microsoft’s exclusive curriculum. More over – our standards go beyond the “minimum requirements” set forth by Microsoft Learning.

We leverage our partnership benefits of courseware customization to build end to end technology training solutions. Students gain practical skills which can be implemented immediately.

At most training centers – learning starts on the first day of class and ends on the last day. Our boot camp training program is designed to offer resources before, during and after.

What You'll Learn

Gain a solid foundation in AI concepts including machine learning, NLP, computer vision, and generative AI.
Learn hands-on with Azure AI Foundry to build and test intelligent applications.
Understand real-world applications of AI such as text analysis, speech recognition, image analysis, and information extraction.
Explore responsible AI practices to design solutions that are ethical and trustworthy.
Prepare for more advanced AI projects by establishing a strong base in both theory and Azure tools.
Build AI-enabled database solutions using Microsoft technologies
Gain hands-on experience with vector search and embeddings
Learn how to integrate AI into enterprise data platforms
Improve application intelligence and search capabilities
Stay current with emerging AI + data architecture trends
Align skills with modern AI-driven development practices

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Introduction to AI Concepts

Explore core AI topics including generative AI, computer vision, speech, natural language processing, and responsible AI.

Chapter 2: Introduction to Machine Learning Concepts

Understand machine learning types, regression, classification, clustering, deep learning, and transformers.

Chapter 3: Get Started with Machine Learning in Azure

Learn to define problems, prepare data, train models, and use Azure Machine Learning Studio.

Chapter 4: Introduction to Generative AI Concepts

Discover how language models and transformers generate original content and apply responsible practices.

Chapter 5: Get Started with Generative AI in Azure

Use Azure AI Foundry’s tools, model catalog, and playgrounds to build generative AI apps.

Chapter 6: Introduction to Natural Language Processing Concepts

Learn the fundamentals of NLP, from statistical techniques to semantic models.

Chapter 7: Get Started with Natural Language Processing in Azure

Apply Azure AI Language services for sentiment analysis, conversational AI, and translation.

Chapter 8: Get Started with Speech in Azure

Recognize and synthesize speech with Azure AI Speech services.

Chapter 9: Introduction to Computer Vision Concepts

Explore image processing, modern vision models, and machine learning for vision.

Chapter 10: Get Started with Computer Vision in Azure

Use Azure AI Vision services to analyze images and detect faces.

Chapter 11: Introduction to AI-Powered Information Extraction Concepts

Understand how to extract data from images, forms, and multimodal sources.

Chapter 12: Get Started with AI-Powered Information Extraction in Azure

Use Azure AI services to extract insights, build knowledge mining solutions, and analyze documents.

Design and implement database objects with SQL

Understand SQL Server-based platform choices
Build effective tables
Optimize with indexes
Use specialized table types
Enforce data integrity with constraints
Manage JSON columns and indexes
Partition tables for scale
Create and maintain database objects

Implement programmability objects with SQL

Create views
Create stored procedures
Create scalar functions
Create table-valued functions
Create triggers
Choose when to use each option
Implement programmability objects in SQL Server

Write advanced T-SQL code

Organize queries with Common Table Expressions
Apply window functions for analytics
Process JSON data with built-in functions
Match patterns with regular expressions
Find approximate matches with fuzzy string functions
Traverse relationships with graph queries
Compare rows with correlated subqueries
Handle errors with TRY...CATCH
Work with JSON functions

Implement SQL solutions by using AI-assisted tools

Describe AI-assisted development tools for Microsoft SQL platforms
Interpret security impact of using AI-assisted tools
Enable GitHub Copilot and Fabric Copilot
Configure model and Model Context Protocol (MCP) options
Create and configure GitHub Copilot instruction files
Connect to MCP server endpoints, including SQL Server and Fabric Lakehouse
Configure AI-assisted tools for database development

Implement data security and compliance with SQL

Protect data with encryption
Configure dynamic data masking
Implement row-level security
Manage permissions and secure access
Implement auditing
Configure secure access to AI services
Secure data API endpoints
Implement security features

Optimize database performance

Recommend database configurations
Preserve data integrity with transaction isolation levels and concurrency controls
Evaluate query performance with execution plans and DMVs
Monitor and tune queries with Query Store and Query Performance Insight
Identify and resolve blocking and deadlocks
Optimize query performance

Implement CI/CD by using SQL Database Projects

Create, build, and validate SQL Database Projects
Configure source control and manage reference data
Manage branching, pull requests, and conflict resolution
Detect and resolve schema drift
Implement CI/CD pipelines
Design and implement a testing strategy
Implement CI/CD using SQL Database Projects

Integrate SQL solutions with Azure services

Create configuration files for Data API Builder
Define entities for REST and GraphQL
Expose database objects, stored procedures, and views
Explore deployment options for Data API Builder
Recommend Azure Monitor configurations
Handle changes with event-driven patterns
Configure Data API Builder for solutions

Design and implement models and embeddings with SQL

Understand and evaluate models for SQL database workloads
Create and manage external models in SQL
Design embeddings for SQL database workloads
Generate and maintain embeddings
Generate and update embeddings in Azure SQL Database

Design and implement intelligent search with SQL

Choose an intelligent search approach
Implement full-text search
Prepare SQL for vector search
Implement vector search query patterns
Implement hybrid search and ranking
Implement intelligent search with full-text, vector, and hybrid queries

Design and implement RAG with SQL

Identify RAG use cases and architecture
Prepare retrieval context for augmentation
Augment prompts with database context
Generate and process RAG responses
Implement a RAG solution

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Microsoft SQL AI Developer & AI Fundamentals Boot Camp?

This accelerated 5-day Microsoft SQL AI Developer and Azure AI Fundamentals Boot Camp combines training for AI-901 and DP-800 into one comprehensive program. Students learn foundational artificial intelligence concepts and develop practical skills for building, managing, and optimizing AI-enabled SQL database solutions.

What certifications does this boot camp prepare me for?

The boot camp prepares students for the AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals and DP-800: Administering Microsoft SQL Server-Based Databases exams, providing a combination of foundational AI knowledge and advanced SQL database skills.

Who should attend this SQL AI Developer boot camp?

This training is ideal for SQL developers, database administrators, data professionals, software developers, AI developers, Azure professionals, data engineers, and IT professionals who want to combine SQL database expertise with modern AI technologies.

Is this boot camp suitable for beginners?

The AI fundamentals portion is designed to introduce students to core AI concepts. However, because the program also includes advanced SQL and database administration topics, students should have some experience with SQL, databases, data management, or IT.

Is this boot camp good for SQL developers?

Yes. SQL developers can benefit from learning how to incorporate AI, generative AI, vector search, RAG, and Azure AI technologies into traditional SQL and database environments.

Is this boot camp good for database administrators?

Yes. DBAs can expand their skill set beyond traditional database administration by learning about Azure SQL, AI-enabled databases, security, performance optimization, vector search, and modern cloud data technologies.