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 ...

[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 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 ...

A reader's question via email asked for an elaboration on separation of duties (SoD) between DBAs and IT administrators. SoD gets lumped in with compliance requirements, but, in reality, it's a ...

There are many different ways to look at database administration. It can be done by task, by discipline, by DBMS, by server, and so on. But one useful way to look at database administration is in ...

A person responsible for the design and management of an organization's databases as well as the evaluation, selection and implementation of the database management system (DBMS) software. The ...