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DBA

Meaning in databases & SQL, with examples

/ˌdiː biː ˈeɪ/abbreviationCore term

In databases & SQL, DBA means: Database administrator: the person responsible for installing, securing, backing up, tuning and keeping a company's databases running.

In Turkish: veritabanı yöneticisi, DBA

How it is used

Used as a job title and in daily talk: 'ask the DBA', 'the DBA team', 'DBA approval'. Production DBAs focus on servers, backups and uptime; development DBAs help with schema design and SQL. Cloud services have taken over some routine DBA tasks.

Example sentences

  1. Any index change on the billing database needs DBA approval.

  2. She worked as a developer for five years before becoming an Oracle DBA.

Common collocations

  • ask the DBA
  • DBA team
  • on-call DBA
  • Oracle DBA
  • DBA approval
  • DBMSDatabase management system: the software that stores the data, runs queries, controls access and keeps data safe, such as PostgreSQL or Oracle.
  • backupA copy of a database saved at a certain moment so that the data can be brought back after a failure, a mistake or an attack.
  • privilegeA permission that allows a database user or role to do a specific action, such as reading a table, inserting rows or creating new objects.
  • query tuningThe work of making slow queries faster by studying their execution plans and then adding indexes, rewriting SQL or changing database settings.

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