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ATS resume keywords for Database Administration (DBA)

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a Database Administration (DBA) resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • database administration
  • dba
  • oracle
  • oracle database
  • sql server
  • mysql
  • postgresql
  • rman
  • data guard
  • rac
  • asm
  • backup and recovery
  • performance tuning
  • awr
  • sql tuning
  • patching
  • upgrade
  • migration
  • high availability
  • disaster recovery
  • replication
  • always on
  • pl/sql
  • shell scripting
  • linux
  • oem
  • goldengate
  • exadata
  • oci
  • aws rds
  • indexing
  • capacity planning

The eight questions for Database Administration (DBA)

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many databases or instances do you administer, and how large are they?
  2. 2.What uptime or recovery result can you point to?
  3. 3.How many patches, upgrades or migrations have you completed?
  4. 4.Which database platforms and versions do you work on daily?
  5. 5.What have you made faster, and by how much?
  6. 6.Which high availability or disaster recovery setups do you run?
  7. 7.What have you automated with scripts, and what did it save?
  8. 8.Which cloud database work have you done, if any?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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