70 Examples of Database Skills

John Spacey, November 16, 2019

Database skills are abilities and knowledge that are required for database related roles such as database development and database administration. This is a large and diverse area of IT skills that may be specific to a particular type of database such as relational or NoSql databases. Skills may also be related to a particular aspect of databases such as database architecture or security. The following are common database skills that are independent of any specific platforms or systems.

Backup & Restore	Big Data
Bulk Operations	Caching
Capacity Planning	Cloud Databases
Cold Standbys	Complex Queries
Cryptography	Data Architecture
Data Conversion	Data Definition Language
Data Independence	Data Integration
Data Integrity	Data Manipulation Language
Data Mapping	Data Masking
Data Migration	Data Modeling
Data Science	Data Security
Data Storage	Data Types
Data Warehouse	Database APIs
Database Administration	Database Clients
Database Constraints	Database Design
Database Development	Database Indexes
Database Management Systems	Database Monitoring
Database Optimization	Database Replication
Database Security	Database-as-a-service
Denormalization	Disaster Recovery
ETL	Embedded SQL
Encryption	Functions
Graph Databases	High Availability
Hot Standbys	In-memory Databases
Incident Management	MapReduce
Metadata Management	NoSQL Databases
Normalization	OLAP
OLTP	Partitioning
Performance Tuning	Problem Management
Query Analyzers	Realtime Databases
Relational Databases	SQL
SQL Databases	Scripting
Stored Procedures	Transactions
Triggers	Troubleshooting
Upgrades & Installs	Views