DBA

A DBA is responsible for the smooth operation of the databases in an organization. One of the most important words in his or her vocabulary is proactivly. The more foresightful a DBA works, the more he stays calm as he challenged with increasing performance demands and data volumes.

Duties of a DBA

In his role, a DBA is confronted with some or all of the following tasks;

A DBA must understand the architecture of a database.
Install, upgrade and patch database software.
Create the database
Develop and test a backup and recovery strategy
Put backup strategy to work
Resource management (storage, memory, …)
Task scheduling
Security
Performance tuning
Evaluate new database features
Manage operational costs and justify those to management

Besides these responsibilities that are required by the business, a DBA also needs to broaden the horizons, tune the skill sets and keep up to date with emerging technologies such as

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Application development and programming

The need for automatization

Some estimations indicate that 40 percent of DBAs are managing 50 or more databases every day.

There seems to be a need to automate the tasks of the DBAs.