Roles of the Database Administrator

Roles

·        Developing and designing database strategies

·        Monitoring systems

·        Improving database performances and capacity

·        Planning for future expansion requirements

·        Safeguarding the database (through planning, coordinating and implementing security measures)

Responsibilities

·        Installing and upgrading the database server and application tools

·        Allocating system storage and planning future storage requirements for the database system

·        Modifying the database structure, as necessary, from information given by application developers

·        Enrolling users and maintaining system security

·        Ensuring compliance with database vendor license agreement

·        Controlling and monitoring user access to the database

·        Monitoring and optimizing the performance of the database

·        Planning for backup and recovery of database information

·        Maintaining archived data

·        Backing up and restoring databases

·        Contacting database vendor for technical support

·        Generating various reports by querying from database as per need.