Database administrator

A database administrator (DBA) is a person who is responsible for the environmental aspects of a database. In general, these include:

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• Recoverability - Creating and testing Backups
• Integrity - Verifying or helping to verify data integrity
• Security - Defining and/or implementing access controls to the data
• Availability - Ensuring maximum uptime
• Performance - Ensuring maximum performance given budgetary constraints
• Development and testing support - Helping programmers and engineers to efficiently utilize the database.

A database analyst is also responsible for the logical and physical design of databases.

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