Who do DBAs report to in your company? Who should the report to in a best-case orginizational structure? The general options seem to be:<BR><BR><UL TYPE=SQUARE><BR ...

This year will see swift and unrelenting change for people who manage the world’s data. That’s especially true for database administrators as more database management responsibilities run autonomously ...

There are many different ways to look at database administration. It can be done by task, by discipline, by DBMS, by server, and so on. But one useful way to look at database administration is in ...

As information becomes ever more strategically important for organizations, database administrators continue to play a vital role in the success of enterprises. If data is the currency of the digital ...

Data governance is transforming the world of business and IT as organizations increasingly acknowledge and embrace the importance of data in the modern world. And this transformation significantly ...

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Database administrators use software to store and organize data, such as financial information and customer shipping records. They make sure that data are available to users and are secure from ...

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd threw the long-term future of hundreds of thousands of database administrators (DBAs) into question while talking up the benefits of the company’s new autonomous database. The ...

If the modern economy runs on data, what will that mean in the coming year for database administrators, or DBAs, who know how to store it, move it, use it wisely, and keep it safe? For almost any ...

Oracle Corp. is readying a new add-on to its enterprise database software that will give users more control over how their data is accessed. Called Database Vault, the software will be introduced ...

With a flock of new database management packages suddenly hitting the market, you’ll forgive your database administrator (DBA) if he suddenly seems to be in a spending mood. Tempting as these new ...