Learn about what database administration is and how database administrators help companies set up, maintain, and secure large volumes of information.

Database administrators—DBAs, for short—set up databases according to a company’s needs, and make sure they operate efficiently, fine-tuning, upgrading, and testing modifications as needed. They are ...

Compliance-related tasks that impact database administration include metadata management, data quality, database and data access auditing, data masking and obfuscation, long-term data retention and ...