CRITICAL SKILL 3.3

Perform Day-to-Day Operations

In order to properly perform the role of Database Administrator, you will need to develop and implement solutions that cover all areas of this discipline. The amazing part of this job is that you may be asked to do many, or perhaps all, aspects of your job on any given day. Your daily tasks will vary from doing high-level architecture and design to performing low-level tasks. Let’s take a look at the things that you will be getting involved in.

Architecture and Design

DBAs should be involved with the architecture and design of new applications, databases, and even technical infrastructure changes. Decisions made here will have a large impact on database performance and scalability and database ...

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