Technology Changes Role of Database Administrator
The database administrator (DBA) is responsible for managing and coordinating all database activities. The DBA's job description includes database design, user coordination, backup, recovery, overall performance, and database security. The database administrator plays a crucial role in managing data for the employer. In the past the DBA job has required sharp technical skills along with management ability. (Shelly, Cashman, Waggoner 1992). However, the arrival on the scene of the relational database along with the rapidly changing technology has modified the database administrator's role. This has required organizations to vary the way of handling database management.
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(Sipolt 1995). The traditional database administrator's strength is in creating the physical design of the database. The procedural database administrator is an expert in accessing data. Procedural DBAs are responsible for procedural logic support, application code reviews, access path review and analysis, SQL rewrites, debugging, and analysis to assure optimal execution. (Mullins 1995)
Along with the changing job description, administrators are facing increased demands from the corporations for which they work. Database administrators are responsible for staff cost control, hardware, software, and are becoming increasingly responsible for the work quality and response time of their staff.
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The job modifications are not the only change in this industry. Database administrators received a substantial increase in their wages in 1995. The average earnings for a DBA are now $52,572 according to the 1995 survey source.
However, salaries differ according to the specific region of the country in which one resides. The mid-level database administrator in San Francisco earns
$55,000 to $65,000, substantially more than our survey states. However, Salt
Lake City database administrator's salary fell between $30,000 to $35,000.
Another area of salaries on the rise is the health care profession. Previously lower end on the pay scale, hospital pay is on the rise and currently
According to Jane Fountain, e-government or the governing with the use of technology has changed bureaucracy reform. She looks at the changes over the course of two presidencies one the Clinton Administration in the 1990’s and the other the Bush Administration in the 2000’s, as well as the state level.
I used Google search engine and other job search sites to understand about the companies I am applying and to figure out the pay scale for the database administrator jobs. I was interested to apply for database administrator jobs in the financial sector such as banking and finance. For that reason, I used Google search engine to understand one of the banks that is Bank of America. I used the official site www.bankofamerica.com, which took me to their official page. I was able to see various topics regarding the bank and the services it provides. I saw the Banking tab where I found about the checking and saving accounts, online accounts, cash rewards credit cards, home loans and mortgages, auto loans, loan protection, health saving
Vaughn (2012), states several reasons for increasing amounts of data being handled by databases. The first is simply due to an increase in technology available and the number of people using this technology. As the amount of data increased, organizations began to want to mine the data to find information that they can use to increase their business. Mining the data that was stored in the systems quickly became a determining factor in strategy and future tactics of the organization. Data continued to increase and organization soon found themselves having difficulty processing this data in a manner that was timely enough to be useful.
In the past few working weeks I have learned the mission of Keswood Home Health service,” to participate as an active part of the community in providing and continuously improving the home health care needs of the patient by delivering value driven, high quality compassionate care.”
Connolly and Carolyn (2004) define a database as a structureordesign that consists of theclient’s data as well as metadata. It is also a persistent, logicallycoherentrepository of inherentlymeaningful data that is relevant to someaspects of therealworld. The database consists of data organized in a systematicway, anditallowseasy retrieval of information, analysis, updating andoutput of data. Thatdata can be in theform of graphics, scripts, reports, text, tables, andsoon. Most of thecomputerapplications are databases at their core. Manycompaniesusuallyhave a lot of data, andsotheyhavebig databases that can handlethatlargeamount of data. It is wherenothe database administratorcomes into playtopensurepropermanagement of the database sothatthe organizational data is safe from anyintrudersor data corruption (Jones, 2014). The database is whatcontrolsthedata of theentireorganization, andany tampering of the databases can culminate to the stoppage of businessoperations.
The chief complaint screen will allow clinicians to enter patient’s reasons for visiting the emergency department. The chief complaint data entry screen will be used to obtain and record information from patients such as symptoms, duration of symptoms, and what major problem they are experiencing as a result of symptoms. The chief complaint data entry screen does not deals with obtaining information about chronic illness or history of family disease. Rather, the data entry screen will enable clinicians to prioritized treatment intervention based on severity of patient’s condition. Furthermore, the data capture in the chief complaint entry screen can be applied to facilitate clinical research, clinicians training, and perform quality check. The data elements in the chief complaint data entry screen will include:
A database management system is normally an integral part of a database system. Microsoft Access is an example of a popular DMBS designed with the small business user in mind. Microsoft's SQL Server on the other hand is an example of a DBMS that has the ability to serve database requests from multiple clients or users. One of the first DBMSs was IBM's Information Management System (IMS). As IBM proved, a DBMS might be utilized by or collectively
Database is any collection of data or information, that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. Databases are structured to facilitate the storage, retrieval, modification, and deletion of data in conjunction with various data-processing operations.
A database is a system that is specialized to manage data in a computer application system. Data has many forms, such as text, digital, symbols, graphics, images and sound. The database systems are integral components of current and future command, communication, control and intelligence information systems. (Lunt, 1992, p. 253)
Db_owner: Members of the db_owner settled database part can perform all arrangement and support exercises on the database, and can likewise drop the database. Database manager. Parts of this part can make, adjust or drop the database and perform whatever other activity (read/ compose/ change objects) inside the database. Pretty much as parts of SYSADMIN can perform any operation inside the server parts of db_owner can perform any operation inside the database.
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“In the mid-to-late 1990s, companies began implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to automate, standardize, and integrate their business processes for effective planning and control.” (Bradford, 2015) A major component of this ERP system is a single all-encompassing database that Bradford refers to as, “a single source of the truth.” (pg. 1) Essentially, what this means is that employees in various departments of an organization will input data essential to their core activities; and this data can be utilized to help other departments perform their activities faster and more efficiently. The idea is to have all aspects of an organization work from the same data. Organizations have abandoned the legacy systems of the past
The paper will first define the major concepts under review before outlining the pros and cons of a database management system (DBMS) and finally give sufficiently clear arguments to enable the vice-chancellor make an informed decision on the way forward.
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The industrial use of databases is advancing to the point where modern and fast solutions are required in most industries. Plattner (2011) states that "Sub-second response time and real-time analytics are key requirements for applications that allow natural human computer interactions. We envision users of enterprise applications to interact with their software tools in such a natural way, just like any Internet user interacts with a web search engine today by refining search results on the fly when the initial results are not satisfying" (Plattner, 2011). Keeping up with the South River hospital and pharmacy 's growth requires keeping up with this database technology.