What are the typical database administrator responsibilities?

Answer by  mem4dr (1378)

Database administrators often have to have a good deal of programming knowledge. To keep the database running smoothly and to make the database easy to use for others in the company, the administrator must be adept at identifying bugs in code and then promptly fixing them. An administrator would likely also have some supervisory duties as well.

Answer by  PionerExpCM (17)

Database administrator (also known as database coordinator or programmer) is the person who is in direct charge for designing, implementing and maintaining the database. He is tasked with monitoring the database performance and applying fixes and upgrades to make it stable, secure and future-proof in order to apply expansions.

Answer by  tamarawilhite (17883)

Typical database administrator responsibilities include new access account creation, system monitoring for up time, monitoring for performance, updating the application used to access the database (such as Oracle) as new editions become available, generating user access logs and change history logs as auditors require it, checking for data formatting errors and correcting database errors.

Answer by  askanswer (349)

Database administrators create and manage databases. They are often tasked with keeping the databases running and stable, as well as writing and optimizing queries.

Answer by  DrHarris (508)

You will need to understand the process of creating, updating, and maintaining databases, running reports, etc. as directed by staff. You will run metrics to determine where bottlenecks are, and add/remove indexes to improve database performance. Most of all, you will make sure the database is always accessible and properly secured.

Answer by  halibut (29)

Database administrators manage the day-to-day maintenance activities of databases. They usually configure database data backups and restore lost data. They perform database tunning in order to optimize database data structures and database queries.