Typical Oracle DBA Responsibilities.

Oracle DBA Duties and Responsibities.

There’s changing duties for a DBA in current times, and the following have been scoured as a minimum limit of the responsibilities and skills an Oracle DBA needs in the current day and age.

Oracle Database Administrator.

DBA Responsibilities

Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle RDBMS and related products
Evaluating Oracle features and related products.
Establishing and maintaining valid backup and recovery procedures.
Testing of backups on a regular basis.
Implementing Database Design.
Implementing and maintaining Database Security.
Database Tuning.
Database Monitoring.
Application Tuning if Possible.
Application Monitoring.
Documentation and Standards.
Growth Planning.
Teamwork and 24 hour support.
Technical Troubleshooting.
Development Consulting.
Working with Oracle Technical Support.
Patch and Maintenance.

DBA Skills Required

Understanding of the database, utilities and tools.
Understanding of the OS.
Physical Database Design.
Performance and Tuning of Database and OS.
Backup and Recovery Methodology.
Security Understanding.
Resource Usage.
Data Integrity.
Software Development Lifecycle.
Communication Skills.
Project Management.
Business Knowledge.
Data modeling.
Data interface protocols .

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