Database Administrator

Also called: Automatic Data Processing Planner (ADP Planner), Data Administrator, Data Center Technician, Data Management Associate, Data Management Information Technology Specialist (Data Management IT Specialist)

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Administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of database management systems. Coordinate changes to computer databases. Identify, investigate, and resolve database performance issues, database capacity, and database scalability. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases.

Test programs or databases, correct errors, and make necessary modifications.
Plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
Develop standards and guidelines to guide the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
Review procedures in database management system manuals for making changes to database.
Revise company definition of data as defined in data dictionary.
Train users and answer questions.
Review workflow charts developed by programmer analyst to understand tasks computer will perform, such as updating records.
Approve, schedule, plan, and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems, such as the installation of new databases.
Identify and evaluate industry trends in database systems to serve as a source of information and advice for upper management.
Develop data model describing data elements and how they are used, following procedures and using pen, template or computer software.
Select and enter codes to monitor database performance and to create production database.
Identify, evaluate and recommend hardware or software technologies to achieve desired database performance.
Plan and install upgrades of database management system software to enhance database performance.
Provide technical support to junior staff or clients.
Test changes to database applications or systems.

Work Context

Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day".
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 95% responded "Every day".
Work With Work Group or Team — 67% responded "Extremely important".
Spend Time Sitting — 56% responded "Continually or almost continually".
Contact With Others — 56% responded "Contact with others most of the time".
Telephone — 59% responded "Once a week or more but not every day".
Face-to-Face Discussions — 54% responded "Once a week or more but not every day".

Work Activities

Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

Detailed Work Activities

Develop performance metrics or standards related to information technology.
Create databases to store electronic data.
Update computer database information.
Assess database performance.
Modify software programs to improve performance.
Develop computer or information security policies or procedures.

Implement security measures for computer or information systems.

Develop detailed project plans.

Coordinate software or hardware installation.

Train others in computer interface or software use.

Implement security measures for computer or information systems.

Develop models of information or communications systems.

Read documents to gather technical information.

Update computer database information.

Analyze market or customer related data.

Analyze data to identify trends or relationships among variables.

Develop database parameters or specifications.

Write computer programming code.

Read documents to gather technical information.

Develop database parameters or specifications.

Evaluate utility of software or hardware technologies.

Provide recommendations to others about computer hardware.

Create databases to store electronic data.

Install computer software.

Provide technical support for software maintenance or use.

Test computer system operations to ensure proper functioning.

Assess database performance.

Computers and Electronics

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

English Language

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Telecommunications

Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Complex Problem Solving

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Judgment and Decision Making

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Active Learning

Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Active Listening

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Monitoring

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Programming

Writing computer programs for various purposes.

Systems Analysis

Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

Writing

Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Systems Evaluation

Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Speaking

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Coordination

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Operations Analysis

Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Operation Monitoring

Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

Mathematics

Using mathematics to solve problems.

Quality Control Analysis

Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

Instructing

Teaching others how to do something.

Learning Strategies

Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Time Management

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Information Ordering

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Problem Sensitivity

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Oral Comprehension

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Near Vision

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Flexibility of Closure

The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

Speech Clarity

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Oral Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Written Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Fluency of Ideas

The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

Selective Attention

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Visualization

The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Perceptual Speed

The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

Speed of Closure

The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.

Number Facility

The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.

Mathematical Reasoning

The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.

Originality

The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

They do well at jobs that need:

Achievement/Effort

Persistence

Initiative

Leadership

Cooperation

Concern for Others

Social Orientation

Self Control

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Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics GP
Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Ellucian Banner ERP
Ab Initio
SAP
SAP Business Objects

Human resources software

Oracle Taleo
Oracle Learning Management
Human resource management software HRMS

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