Relational design
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Understands schemas, normalization, constraints, and data integrity.
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Database Administrator
Secures, operates, tunes, protects, and recovers production database systems.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
100%
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
- 48
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.
Transactions and concurrency
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Manages isolation, locking, consistency, and concurrent workloads.
Indexing and performance
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Diagnoses query behavior and tunes indexes, plans, and resources.
02
Database operations
4 capabilities
Backup and recovery
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Meets recovery objectives through tested protection and restore procedures.
High availability
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs replication, failover, and maintenance for service continuity.
Database security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Protects database identities, privileges, encryption, auditing, and data.
Platform administration
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Operates at least one production database platform deeply.
Course coverage
- Platform Administration
- Column-Family Databases
- Document Databases
- Graph Databases
- Key-Value Databases
- NoSQL Fundamentals
- Redis Fundamentals
- Time-Series Databases
- Apache Cassandra Fundamentals
- AWS Databases
- Cloud Databases
- Distributed SQL Databases
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MongoDB Fundamentals
- MySQL Administration
- Neo4j Fundamentals
- Oracle Database
- PostgreSQL Administration
- Vector Databases
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Database Backup and RecoveryFree
- Database FundamentalsFree
- Database High Availability
- Database Indexing
- Database Partitioning and Sharding Strategies
- Database Performance Tuning
- Database Privilege and Access Control
- Database Replication Strategies
- Database Security
- Database Transactions and Concurrency
- Platform Administration
- PostgreSQL Fundamentals
- Relational Database Design
- SQL FundamentalsFree
- Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Database Programming
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
- Apache Cassandra Fundamentals
- AWS Databases
- Cloud Databases
- Database Auditing and Compliance
- Database Encryption and Key Management
- Database Failover and Disaster Recovery Drills
- Deadlocks and Lock Contention Troubleshooting
- Distributed SQL Databases
- Distributed Transactions and Two-Phase Commit
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MongoDB Fundamentals
- Multi-Region Database Architecture
- MySQL Administration
- MySQL Fundamentals
- Neo4j Fundamentals
- Oracle Database
- Point-in-Time Recovery Techniques
- PostgreSQL Administration
- Schema Migration and Change Management
- SQL Execution Plans and Query Tuning
- Vector Databases
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