Certifications aren’t inherently useless. Some are necessary. Others can be helpful when paired with real work. But on their own, they rarely change hiring outcomes.

For those of us who have been in the information technology realm for too long, the title “database administrator” conjures up very specific images. We picture someone pulling hair out over issues ...

Staffing the DBA organization is not a simple matter. Several non trivial considerations must be addressed, including the size of the DBA staff and the reporting structure for the DBAs. One of the ...

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 ...

When technology turns a corner, as it has with Oracle Autonomous Database, people who work with that technology rightly ask what it will enable them to do. With the self-driving, self-securing, and ...

Database Administrator vs. Database Architect: What’s the Difference? Your email has been sent A database admin is responsible for the operation of databases, whereas a database architect manages the ...

Database administrators use software to store and organize data, such as financial information and customer shipping records. They make sure that data are available to users and are secure from ...

For obvious reasons, databases have always been up front and center to Oracle chairman and founder Larry Ellison, the prominence of the autonomous database at last week's Oracle OpenWorld gave Ellison ...

Flying somewhere over Utah in a cramped regional jet, I started thinking about the good old/bad old days of being an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) 15 years ago. The DBA has traditionally been ...