Big Data is becoming a more-talked-about topic as companies begin to figure out how to handle the onslaught of data. And since it’s been on the radar, many are predicting a boom in Big Data-related ...

Success now depends on achieving the right balance between automation and human expertise—maintaining governance without sacrificing agility and ensuring security at scale. As data ecosystems stretch ...

The role of the database administrator (DBA) has always been crucial to ensuring that databases are properly organized, secured, and optimized. But recent years have seen many significant changes in ...

Database Administrator vs. Database Architect: What’s the Difference? Your email has been sent A database admin is responsible for the operation of databases, whereas a database architect manages the ...

As information becomes ever more strategically important for organizations, database administrators continue to play a vital role in the success of enterprises. If data is the currency of the digital ...

[Excerpted from The Database Administrator's Guide To Security, a new report published today in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] In the past, database administrators weren't expected to ...

Meg is an editor for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. Charged with everything from managing volunteer information to recording donor gifts, database administrators play vital roles in ...

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part in ...