A database administrator is a person who has responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the database. Duties and tasks of an administrator can vary by the firm and can include:
- Installation of Oracle RDBMS and client software
- Creating a backup & recovery strategy to preserve data
- Daily monitoring of server performance
- Cooperation with developers during application development
- Export/import of data
- Managing database access
- Database maintenance at an expert level of support (RAC, Dataguard, AQ, Streams, database/query optimization, schema analysis and reorganization proposals, backup procedure optimization, patching)