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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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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. This fraud claim detection solution stores the claims details in a database managed by the database administrator (DBA) team. Learn more about Verizon’s PCI assessments here. [1]

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today.

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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

This is not to say that a system administrator necessarily enjoys dealing with relational databases. For decades, managing a relational database has been a high-skill, labor-intensive task. It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators.

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

All Things Distributed

For decades, managing a relational database has been a high-skill, labor-intensive task. It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators. Aurora's design preserves the core transactional consistency strengths of relational databases.

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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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