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Database Administrator

Secures, operates, tunes, protects, and recovers production database systems.

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Skill coverage

100%

8 of 8 skills

Course coverage

65%

31 of 48 courses

Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.

Role skills
8
Published coverage
8
Relevant courses
31

Capability map

Skills

Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.

01

Database foundations

4 capabilities

  • SQL

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Queries and administers relational database systems effectively.

    Course coverage

    • SQL Fundamentals
    • Database Privilege and Access Control, Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Database Programming, Schema Migration and Change Management, SQL Execution Plans and Query Tuning (planned)

  • Transactions and concurrency

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Manages isolation, locking, consistency, and concurrent workloads.

    Course coverage

  • Indexing and performance

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Diagnoses query behavior and tunes indexes, plans, and resources.

    Course coverage

02

Database operations

4 capabilities

Learning path

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Core foundations

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Supporting knowledge

Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.

Specializations

Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.

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