As information becomes ever more strategically important for organizations, database administrators continue to play a vital role in the success of enterprises.

Database administrators—DBAs, for short—set up databases according to a company’s needs, and make sure they operate efficiently, fine-tuning, upgrading, and testing modifications as needed. They are ...

The person who performs "data" administration functions is a "database analyst" or "data administrator," the latter being an earlier title for the job.

DBA Corner focuses on issues of interest to data architects, database analysts and database administrators. Issues addressed by the column include data modeling and database design, database ...

Enterprises today face a shortage of database talent that is only going to grow more acute. This new study indicates that 41% of database professionals intend to leave the data management field within ...

If the modern economy runs on data, what will that mean in the coming year for database administrators, or DBAs, who know how to store it, move it, use it wisely, and keep it safe? For almost any ...