Roles and Responsibilities of a DBA

Category: Education

Diving out from the previous article where in we had learnt that now really it is the right time to become a DBA. Had a thought on finding out the insights related to what a DBA must be actually doing . DBA’s jobs seems to go into a category where others don’t want to do the tasks or doesn’t have the ability to do. DBA’s get the enviable task of figuring out all of the things no one else can figure out. The DBA needs to have an understanding of networking, programming, scripting, data modelling, Operating System knowledge, Java, Storage, security and anything else that would touch a database. It can be referred to it as the centre of attention. This opens up many fields for an individual whilst going on in the path to become a DBA.