1. Database Administration An Introduction Database Processing DBA Introduction

2. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew “Death by Powerpoint” DBA Introduction

3. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew So what’s in a name? Page 12 Database Administration –We’ll define the term database in the second half of the class tonight –What are some DBMS products? –What is the de facto standard for retrieval, definition, and manipulation? DBA Introduction

4. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew So what’s in a name? Page 12 Database Administration What does it mean to administer? –to supervise, direct, control, manage –what does this imply? RESPONSIBILITY DBA Introduction

5. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew Page 14Page 16 Responsibility = DBA Introduction

6. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew So show me the money... DBA Introduction

7. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew Page 16 source: Internet.com Average Salary (year 2000) –$87,000/year –$66/hour contract rate Oracle Database Administrator Graphic Source: Datamation/dice.com IT salary tracker/December 2000

8. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew So what’s in a name? Page 12 Database Administration –Entry level job? –Depends... size of organization application DBA versus production DBA –Great variety in job descriptions www.monster.com DBA Introduction

9. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew Database (rdbms) Market Share Oracle 46% IBM 23.6% Microsoft SQL Server 6.7% –Source IDC (www.idc.com) DBA Introduction

10. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew Responsibilities of DBA Manage –database structure –data activity –DBMS –data repository Source (Kroenke, 7th ed, 2000) DBA Introduction

11. Copyright © 2001 Harold Pardue, University of South AlabamaDBA Overivew In particular... Managing the development process Monitoring data activity Managing rollback segments Database tuning Managing Security and auditing Networking Managing distributed databases (Loney, Oracle8 DBA handbook) DBA Introduction