Talk:Database administrator

message: I would also note that DBAs can be differentiated into four groups:
1. Individuals that maintain it both as physical equipment (i.e. computer system) and as a set of software products (i.e. the database system, operating system, and associated applications).
2. Individuals that only maintain the equipment, typically network administrators or system administrators, but not necessarily familiar with database management.
3. Individuals that only perform database and application management.
4. Individuals that perform it as a function of software development. DBBell 22:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Groups

message: It seems to me that this article needs a section mentioning that in smaller companies, the trend to move away from heavyweight mainframe operating systems and their accompanying databases toward open source, widely documented, small footprint operating systems (that run on a variety of hardware) and open source databases largely obviates the need for specialization in the field of database administration (a task that can be achieved via cooperation between system administrators and programmers), though i can't see a likely spot in the article to put this note - any suggestions?.  Moe Aboulkheir 01:56, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. DBA has always been a specialist role. Not every company needs a DBA. So the fact that companies may operate in ways that don't require DBA's is not notable, it has always been the case. And it does not remove the need to describe what DBA's do for those companies who do need them. 75.40.19.216 (talk) 08:22, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Trends

message: The following sections, Definition of Database, Recoverability, Integrity, Security, Availability and Performance seems to be inappropriate for this article. These are issues which should be (and, in most cases are already) discussed in other articles. These sections should either be pruned (f.ex Definition of Database), or rewritten to focus on the DBA's responsibility in relation to the different tasks. Jerazol 05:38, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also agree and finally removed. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 21:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "inappropriate" sections 

message: The notability of this article is being questioned, with someone arguing that at the moment it's just a definition (albeit cited) and not deserving of its own article.  Can someone with a firm grasp of Wikipedia's notability guidelines please advise? Jwoodger (talk) 00:40, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I do have a firm grasp of the guidelines, thank you. Wikipedia is not a dictionary Please show how this topic, which the article currently gives only a definition of the job title, can expand beyond this while also meeting WP:N. At best, I could see this being cleaned up, reduced, and merged into database. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I apologize if I sounded combative in my comment above - I think you are correct though, merging this (at least the cited definition) into database seems like an appropriate action. Jwoodger (talk) 01:41, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem. I've reverted your last edit, though, as the lack of citation does not effect a merge discussion. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 01:53, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

text: Oracle is not the only database, nor is Wikipedia a job handbook. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:03, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: While SQL databases are very common, there are non-SQL databases that need administration, but do not require SQL knowledge.  e.g. Intersystems Cache database  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.119.64.110 (talk) 19:12, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The article doesn't say these are required skills; rather the article simply talks about the skills most DBAs have. Augbog (talk) 02:03, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  SQL knowledge not a requirement to be a database administrator 

message: Not sure if there is overlap between skills and duties. Most skills are expected to translate into duties so perhaps we can combine these subsections together somehow? Augbog (talk) 02:04, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skills and Duties redundant?