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What is a Database Administrator and What Do They Do All Day?

Tech Republic Big Data

A DBA is a technician skilled in SQL and very large databases who is responsible for managing database software, backup and recovery processes, data security, and storage and capacity planning.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. Developing a rigorous process for detecting and evaluating new architectural patterns is necessary for accurate reporting and ensuring full coverage of the PCI DSS within the financial institution.

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Why Does a Remote DBA Expert Prefer SQL Programming?

Galido

SQL is actually used and regarded as the standard database language universally by all reputed relational DBMS such as Informix, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB/400, SQL server, and MS Access. It is used effectively by database administrators, database testers, and database developers.

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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Relational database fundamentals, including data relationships, ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactions, and the SQL query language, have stood the test of time.

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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Relational database fundamentals, including data relationships, ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactions, and the SQL query language, have stood the test of time.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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