Skills and Responsibilities

Typical day-to-day duties and in-demand skill sets for DBAs include the followin
g. Database administrators:
Implement, support and manage the corporate database.
Design and configure relational database objects.
Are responsible for data integrity and availability.
May design, deploy and monitor database servers.
Design data distribution and data archiving solutions.
Ensure database security, including backups & disaster recovery.
Plan and implement application and data provisioning.
Transfer database information to integrated mobile devices.
Some database administrators design and develop the corporate database.
Some DBAs analyze and report on corporate data to help shape business decisions.
Produce entity relationship & data flow diagrams, database normalization schemat
a,
logical to physical database maps, and data table parameters.
Database administrators are proficient in one or more of the leading database
management systems, such as, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL and Oracle.