C apacity Planning. A dding data files. R eorg tables. T est recovery. R efreshing indexes.
E valuate new software versions.
P hysical data Modeling. D ata Loading. D ata Migration . The DBA job has had an almost mystical aura. The above listing may not remove much of that mysticism, but perhaps it provides a little insight into the life of a DBA and what it is they try to accomplish.