Database administrator

The database administrator is a professional position in which handling and management of all the database systems are done via an admin who is responsible for all the operations on the database including the design of the database, management of the database, working with the database, and presentation of all the data in the system. This makes the database administrator as one of the important positions open in the present day and thus from an organizational perspective, the responsibility and level of work to a database administrator is very much high. The level of the effectiveness and presence of mind is mandatory for a database administrator and the database administrator should also take responsibility for all the actions that are to be done. This is so because the responsibility is very high as the main source of information for the entire industry is its data and hence it should be protected at any cost. Thus making the job of database administrator as one of the most critical positions in the industry with a greater level of responsibility to the specific person.

Skills required by a Database administrator

Since the job type of a database administrator is very critical. There are a certain set of skills that need to be there in a database administrator. These skills make the quality of admin and make him work efficiently and properly in the system. These skills are on all the possible fronts that is, technical, professional and ethical. Some of these mentioned skills are as follow as:

• Business intelligence
• Market research
• Data analysis
• Database design
• SQL
• System and hardware design
• Confidence
• Responsibility
• Concreteness
• Neatness
• Ability to perform well in stress
• Analytical Reasoning

These are the few mentioned skills that make the perfect type of database admins and make them perform well in each and every type of circumstances and thus handling their job properly and getting their work done on time and without any delays. This is very important in the organization if someone is working at such a critical position.

Educational Course for the Database administrators

As with the growing number of the requirement of database admin and better professionals. There are a number of skill oriented courses are made in order to make the right type of database admins for the company. These courses are much more focused on the technical parts of the job and hence creates a better and more tech-oriented database administrators. Apart from that, with a great increase in the number presently these courses are available on the internet too and can be pursued independently. These are skill oriented course and hence only training in the technology required are mentioned and no such recommendation of the institute is given. These courses are as follow as:

1. Enterprise architecture
2. Database concepts
3. SQL programming
4. Database management
5. Business Intelligence
6. BusinessAnalytics
7. System management
8. Hardware configuration
9. Network management
10. Technology oriented database systems like MS-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle DB etc.

Institutions for full-time course

Apart from that, one can also pursue a full-time course in order to become a database administration. These are the specialization course, and can be pursued from the following colleges or universities or even institutions:

1. Lovely professional University
2. Global Institute of technology
3. Focus Training services
4. Ascent Software Training Institute
5. Softdot HiTech Educational Institute
6. KIT education
7. Aptech computer education
8. CRB Tech
9. Amity Directorate of Distance and online learning, Amity university
10. Institute of advanced learning
11. Bharat University
12. IIHT- Indian Institute of Hardware and Technology
13. Jyoti Nivas college
14. Singhania University

These are all the mentioned above are some courses and institutes that can be looked forward to in order to pursue education and then followed bya greater career in the database administration. All these mentioned courses are based on the requirements in the modern industry and hence with the updating of the industry the chances of having a certain change in the requirements might change, but still SQL will still be the core of the Database management and it is important to learn and ace in the Sequential Query Language (SQL) properly, both intermediate and advanced in order to move forward in the career.