When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Developers love meritocracy. Software engineering professionals don’t judge individuals by the way they look, the way they dress and whether or not they use a purple-green hair dye rinse (spoiler ...

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 ...

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

[The following is excerpted from "What Every Database Administrator Should Know About Security," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] To say that there is ...

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 (DBAs) have been the gatekeepers to a business’s most valuable asset: its data. They design, implement, and maintain the business’s database systems; establish policies and ...

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 ...

Some things in life can be considered happy accidents. Just ask government IT administrators, many of whom find themselves in the unexpected position of becoming accidental database administrators ...