When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

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 ...

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 ...

[The following is excerpted from "What Every Database Administrator Should Know About Security," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] To say that there is ...

The confidential and important data are valuable and incontrovertible assets for an organisation. And the demand for the Database Administrator will always remain at the highest priority of the ...

The field of database administration is far from glamorous. Even within the uncompromisingly geeky domain of information technology, database administration would be among the last fields picked for a ...

Developers love meritocracy. Software engineering professionals don’t judge individuals by the way they look, the way they dress and whether or not they use a purple-green hair dye rinse (spoiler ...

One of the ongoing goals of database administration is to minimize downtime and improve availability. If the DBMS is down, data cannot be accessed. If the data is not available, applications cannot ...

A reader's question via email asked for an elaboration on separation of duties (SoD) between DBAs and IT administrators. SoD gets lumped in with compliance requirements, but, in reality, it's a ...