Career Research: Database Administrator

Running head: DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
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Career Research: Database Administrator
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Career Research: Database Administrator
Introduction
Database administration is an essential function in every organization that relies on a
single or multiple databases. Vital information such as personal and financial information are
constituted in the database making it and its security important. The key aim of database
administration is to warrant maximum up time for the database to ensure its timely availability
when required. Even though facilitated to a greater degree by database management system
solutions it still requires constant human intervention. What is more, database administration is
an intricate, cyclical, and protracted work that necessitates qualified personnel. This paper will
discuss the job description of a database administrator and include duties, educational
requirement, job environment, outlook, and pay.
Duties
The database administrator is responsible for implementing, managing, and supporting
the organization’s database, ensuring data availability and integrity, designing solutions to data
archiving and distribution, establish needs of users to designing and configuring relational
database objects, planning and implementing application and data provisioning, and move
database information to integrated mobile devices (IT Career Finder, n.d.). They are also
responsible for securing corporate data, preventing data loss, and ensuring effective operation of
the database. Database administrators are responsible for installation, configuration and
upgrading of the database management systems and related products.
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