Essential Functions of Remote Database Administrators

A corporate database involves numerous different kinds of data, but necessarily data that is required for the most critical applications to run. It includes data of great importance to the company as well as to the employees and customers. Without the data or the primary functioning application there is likely to be no or little productivity. Hence, it is essential that administration and the control of the crucial data be handled by a professional remote database administrators or DBA for short.
Here, I have mentioned some of the primary functions of remote database administrators:
1. By considering the design of the data structure and architects, the remote database admin should participate in the implementation of the database and the database management system into the ecosystem. In most cases, the system may already be up and running and the database admin might just have to run some maintenance tasks.
2. Monitoring and analyzing system performance of the databases. The analysis must seek for an overall performance, i.e. of data and disk optimization such as disk usage to predict for future expansion and in majority writes versus majority reads.
3. Regular maintenance and repair for the system. Proper maintenance would require periodic indexing through use of the database management system. Employing daily and automated system. Using a daily automated system check would also facilitate the admin by alerting the database admin if there are any possible threats or problems to be addressed. It task also encompasses simple works like adding and removing users access or changing access rights for the existing users. Maintenance also entails scheduled backups and troubleshooting minor issues.
4. Maintaining and implementing security and vendor patches for the database. This is one of the most critical services performed by the administrators. Security should be restrictive. Tasks like data writes should only occur programmatically through the mission critical applications or other approved software. There could be other methods but this is the only way to maintain data integrity.
5. Developing and implementing business continuity and disaster recovery plan. This in turn goes back to security and maintenance and beyond both issues to the extreme. Business continuity demands full 100 % uptime. Using multiple nodes with an Oracle database facilitates multiple servers to be integrated into a RAC (Real Application Cluster) which would prevent downtime if installed properly. This configuration will facilitate in achieving flawless recovery when one of more of the professors or servers are affected. Disaster recovery and business continuity will be a part of a larger corporate initiative and encompassing all critical systems and not just the domain of the administrator.
6. Since the database administrators perform highly specialized functions, it would be cost effective to acquire a Database administration service to perform such functions across multiple locations or a single location. The remote DBA are capable of performing all functions through network connections to the targeted location or multiple locations. This is an essential technology resource in every corporate environment with a critical application.
Remote System Administration and Remote System Management have become crucial aspects of every application development industry. It has facilitated development industries with cost effective solutions and more manageable approach to database management.
Jay Dee works for an Remote System Management company, which is a part of Andolasoft. Many of his articles showcases the contribution outsourcing has brought into the arena of Ruby on rails development, iphone application development, cakePHP Development and Android application development. For more Information please visit www.andolasoft.com