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Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South Alabama DBA Overivew

“Death by Powerpoint”

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So what’s in a name?

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• Database Administration– We’ll define the term database in the

second half of the class tonight– What are some DBMS products?– What is the de facto standard for

retrieval, definition, and manipulation?

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• Database Administration• What does it mean to administer?

– to supervise, direct, control, manage– what does this imply?

• RESPONSIBILITY

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Responsibility =

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So show me the money...

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source: Internet.com

• Average Salary (year 2000) – $87,000/year– $66/hour contract rate

Oracle Database Administrator

Graphic Source: Datamation/dice.com IT salary tracker/December 2000



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• Database Administration– Entry level job?– Depends...

• size of organization• application DBA versus production DBA

– Great variety in job descriptions• www.monster.com

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Database (rdbms) Market Share

• Oracle 46%• IBM 23.6%• Microsoft SQL Server 6.7%

– Source IDC (www.idc.com)

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Responsibilities of DBA

• Manage– database structure– data activity– DBMS– data repository

• Source (Kroenke, 7th ed, 2000)

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In particular...

• Managing the development process• Monitoring data activity• Managing rollback segments• Database tuning• Managing Security and auditing• Networking• Managing distributed databases• (Loney, Oracle8 DBA handbook)

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