Outsourced database administration provides guaranteed response times, specialist expertise and predictable costs, says ...

For those of us who have been in the information technology realm for too long, the title "database administrator" conjures up very specific images. We picture someone pulling hair out over issues ...

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One of the most common questions I am asked is: How can I become a DBA? The answer, of course, depends a lot on what you are currently doing. Programmers who have developed applications using a ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Database administrator has been a long-standing and highly in-demand job. But technology, as it has with desktop, server and storage administrators, continues to march on and change the role of ...

Staffing the DBA organization is not a simple matter. Several non trivial considerations must be addressed, including the size of the DBA staff and the reporting structure for the DBAs. One of the ...

As if the role of database administrators in the IT universe was not important enough, many DBAs say growing concerns about database security have increased their workload and blurred their ...

For obvious reasons, databases have always been up front and center to Oracle chairman and founder Larry Ellison, the prominence of the autonomous database at last week's Oracle OpenWorld gave Ellison ...

This sample job description will help you identify key skills for your next Sybase DBA hire, including performing support activities for data warehouse and transactional servers running Sybase ...