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Automation of Database Administration

Automation of database administration can dictate the skills and personnel needed to manage databases. With minimal automation, organizations may need 5-10 highly skilled DBAs per database, while increasing automation allows for some tasks to be done by lower skilled "line" DBAs overseen by experts creating and managing the automation. Database administration is complex, time-consuming work that usually requires candidates with multiple years of experience and availability for off-hours work. Recovery skills are also essential for DBAs to recover databases from failures and prevent data loss by restoring to a prior point in time.

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Automation of Database Administration

Automation of database administration can dictate the skills and personnel needed to manage databases. With minimal automation, organizations may need 5-10 highly skilled DBAs per database, while increasing automation allows for some tasks to be done by lower skilled "line" DBAs overseen by experts creating and managing the automation. Database administration is complex, time-consuming work that usually requires candidates with multiple years of experience and availability for off-hours work. Recovery skills are also essential for DBAs to recover databases from failures and prevent data loss by restoring to a prior point in time.

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Automation of database administration

The degree to which the administration of a database is automated dictates the skills
and personnel required to manage databases. On one end of the spectrum, a system
with minimal automation will require significant experienced resources to manage;
perhaps 5-10 databases per DBA. Alternatively an organization might choose to
automate a significant amount of the work that could be done manually therefore
reducing the skills required to perform tasks. As automation increases, the personnel
needs of the organization splits into highly skilled workers to create and manage the
automation and a group of lower skilled "line" DBAs who simply execute the
automation.

Database administration work is complex, repetitive, time-consuming and requires


significant training. Since databases hold valuable and mission-critical data,
companies usually look for candidates with multiple years of experience. Database
administration often requires DBAs to put in work during off-hours (for example, for
planned after hours downtime, in the event of a database-related outage or if
performance has been severely degraded). DBAs are commonly well compensated for
the long hours.

One key skill required and often overlooked when selecting a DBA is database
recovery (a part of disaster recovery). It is not a case of “if” but a case of “when” a
database suffers a failure, ranging from a simple failure to a full catastrophic failure.
The failure may be data corruption, media failure, or user induced errors. In either
situation the DBA must have the skills to recover the database to a given point in time
to prevent a loss of data.

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