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Program Codes
1BSCOP
2BSCOP
32807
Employment Percentage
12.72144742
SOC ID
15-1245
SOC Title
Database Administrators and Architects
ONET ID
15-1242.00
ONET Concat ID
15124200
Median Salary
98217.04
EMSI Interest Area Term
Mathematics and Computer Science
Ed Level High School
0
Ed Level Certificate
0
Ed Level Some College
0.6
Ed Level Associates
7.35
Ed Level Bachelors
76.589996
Ed Level Masters
15.46
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a Bachelor's degree
Career Description
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.
Core Tasks
  • 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 for the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
  • Review procedures in database management system manuals to make 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.
Start Annual Earnings
54314.45
Top Annual Earnings
168351.69
EMSI Career Title Slug
database-administrator