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DBA’s jobs seems to go into a category where others don’t want to do the tasks or doesn’t have the ability to do. DBA’s get the enviable task of figuring out all of the things no one else can figure out. The DBA needs to have an understanding of networking, programming, scripting, data modelling, Operating System knowledge, Java, Storage, security and anything else that would touch a database.
http://blogs.seedinfotech.com/roles-responsibilities-dba/
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