DATABASE ADMINISTRATORS

Many people don't realize the work as a database administrator. This is because database administrator is not a popular job that graduated student want to apply. They prefer a more famous job like software engineer. Many people ask what do database administrators do? why do they exist? did they have a high salary? All this question must have pop up in your mind sometime because in world nowdays people don't want to take risk to apply a job that they seldomly heard about. Now i will tell you a little bit about what do database administrators actually do.

Database administrators is people that use database management software to determine the most efficient ways to organize and access a company's data. They also responsible for maintaining database security and backing up the system.

Database administrators is a fast-growing industry.  Database administrators can expect to earn an annual salary of $48,000 to $85,000.

so student that takes computer science in database system should not worry about finding a job because now days there are a lot of company that want to hire an database administrators.

Skill that needed to be database administrators:

• strong organizational skills
• strong logical and analytical thinking
• ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail
• ability to think broadly and consider impacts across system and within the organization.

A database administrator's activities can be listed as below:

• Transferring Data
• Replicating Data
• Maintaining database and ensuring its availability to users
• Maintaining the data dictionary
• Controlling privileges and permissions to database users
• Monitoring database performance
• Database backup and recovery
• Database security Stop