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DBA Roles and Responsibilities

The primary roles of a database administrator (DBA) are to: 1) Make corporate data available to users and ensure data accessibility. 2) Design databases that meet organizational needs, ensure security, perform backups, and optimize performance. 3) Implement new database systems and applications, plan for capacity issues and future expansion. In large organizations, a DBA is responsible for security, system management, and database design. This includes securing data, managing users and resources, performing backups, monitoring performance, and designing database structures.

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DBA Roles and Responsibilities

The primary roles of a database administrator (DBA) are to: 1) Make corporate data available to users and ensure data accessibility. 2) Design databases that meet organizational needs, ensure security, perform backups, and optimize performance. 3) Implement new database systems and applications, plan for capacity issues and future expansion. In large organizations, a DBA is responsible for security, system management, and database design. This includes securing data, managing users and resources, performing backups, monitoring performance, and designing database structures.

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DBA Roles and Responsibilities

Primary Roles of DBA


• To make corporate data available to the end users and decision
makers of the organization
• Design:
– Ensuring the design of the database meets the needs of organization
• Security:
– Ensure data and access to the data are secure
• Backup:
– Ensuring that the data can be restored in the event of either human or
system failure
• Performance:
– Ensuring the database and its subsystems are optimized for
performance
• Implementation:
– Proper implementation of the new database system and applications
– Database Accessibility
– Capacity issues
– planning for future expansion requirements
Roles of DBA…

• In large organization DBA role lies on the


following area:
– DBA’s Security Role
– System Management Role
– Database Design Role
Roles of DBA…
• DBA’s Security Role:
– Database and data security before deploy on
production
– Protecting the database
• Safeguarding the organization’s data and this involves
preventing unauthorized use of an access of database
• Need to make security policy
– Creating and Managing the database users
• By using proper schemas, roles and priviliges
• Monitor resource usage by individual users
Roles of DBA…
• DBA’s System Management Role:
– Day to day management of database and its subsystems
– Troubleshooting
– Performance Tuning
• Ongoing task of DBA
• Database tuning or application tuning or both
• Test all the code under the new oracle version before you switch over to it
• Proactive and reactive tuning
– Monitoring the system
• Monitoring space
• Monitor whether batch jobs are finishing as expected
• Monitoring log files
– Minimizing the downtime
• Resume operation in case problem. E.g. disk replacement etc.
– Estimating requirements
• OS, DISK, Memory etc.
– Developing backup and recovery strategy
– Loading data from old legacy system at reasonable amount of time
– Observing change management
• Process of properly migrating new code in an application and DBA need to understand the
process that’s in place in his organization
• Patch apply
Roles of DBA…
• The DBA’s Database Design Role:
– Designing the database
• Create ER diagram and suggesting the dependencies and
candidates for primary key
• Good design has better performance
– Installing and upgrading the software
• Able to give memory and disk requirements to system admin
before installing oracle database
• Patch apply
• Creating database
– Test and production
• Creating database objects
– Tables, index etc.
DBA’s Job Classification
– planning, design, and development of new
database applications, or major changes to
existing applications (development DBA, or
architect);
– ongoing maintenance of production databases
(operations DBA or production DBA);
– management of an organization's data and
metadata (data administrator).
Oracle DBMS
• Oracle Express edition (free of cost) 12C, 18C
• Oracle personal edition
• Oracle standard edition one
• Oracle standard edition
• Oracle Enterprise edition

• License:
– ASFU (Application Specific Full Use)
– FU (Full Use)
– Type
• Processor perpetual (per license $47500)
• Named user plus
• Development env (vendor side)
• UAT env (customer side)
• LIVE (production) env (customer side)

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