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[su_box title=”Note” box_color=” #0074be” title_color=”#0174be”]Data + Base + Administrator (DBA) OR Data+ Base + Admin (DBA)[/su_box]
Who is Database Administrator (DBA)?
A Database Administrator DBA is a role or position in which a person is responsible for the databases. Let me simplify it for you, A person or Team is mainly responsible for database availability, security, performance and day to day operations called Database Administrator DBA or Database Administration Team. They do all the activities which are directly or indirectly related to the Database.
What Database Administrator DBA do?
Database Software Installation
Database Creation for users or Application
Database User, collection and schema creation
Database Object creation
Database user, privilege and role management
Database and Operating system Space management
Database Backup and recovery
Database Patching
Database Cloning from production to development, QA or staging environments
Database Performance Tuning (PT)
Database Replication
Database Clustering
Database High Availability system setup and maintenance
Database Auditing or preparatory auditing like SOX
Database version upgrade
Database Platform migration like from windows to Linux
Database Storage migration
Database Business Continuity plan (BCP)
Database Migration from Data Center to another data center
Database Migration from the local data center to Cloud like AWS, GCP or Azure
Database Migration from one database type to another like an oracle to PostgreSQL
Database Incident and Problem management
Database Change and Code migration
Supporting Developers, Testers or Business analyst, Data scientist, Data engineer from the data point of view
Providing 24/7 Support and Monitoring for Database availability
Database software, Application Proof of concepts. (POC)
Some of DBA Designation According to Role and Function
Development DBA
Production DBA
Data Ware Housing (DWH) DBA
Database developer and DBA
Database base architect
Database solution architect
Database Infrastructure solution architect
Database Modeler
Database Engineer and DBA
Cloud DBA
BigData DBA
Database Migration DBA
Popular Database Administration Streams with Technology Combination
Oracle DBA
Oracle Apps DBA (Oracle E-business suite DBA)
SAP ERP DBA or SAP DBA
SAP DBA
SAP Basics admin with DBA knowledge
Open source Database DBA with knowledge of MySQL, MariaDB, Elastic-search, Redis, PostgreSQL
MySQL and MariaDB Database Admin.
MongoDB admin or DBA.
BigData DBA with Cloudera, Hortonworks, ZooKeeper, Cassandra, Scylla DB, Hive and HBase.
Microsoft SQL Server Administrator or DBA.
DevOps dba with database knowledge.
Cloud DBA with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure database knowledge
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