Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Database Engineer vs DBA

What would be the difference between these 2 job titles ?The difference really depends on the job descriptions rather than the
titles. These positions could very well have the same responsibilities is
some companies. That said, I would expect a person with the title DBA to be
focused on operational areas like availability, backup/recovery and
maintenance. A Database Engineer usually is more focused on database
development.
Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"Hassan" <Hassan@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What would be the difference between these 2 job titles ?
>|||> some companies. That said, I would expect a person with the title DBA to ben">
> focused on operational areas like availability, backup/recovery and
> maintenance.
AND most importantly: securiy!

> A Database Engineer usually is more focused on database development.
Shouldn't it be about making a DBMS?
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Absolutely. Security is also a very important DBA concern. I only listed a
few examples.

> Shouldn't it be about making a DBMS?
Yes, the responsibilities of a Database Engineer can include logical and
physical data modeling as well as stored procedure development. In larger
organizations, data modeling can be a specialized position by itself with a
variety of titles, including Database Engineer, Data Architect, etc.
Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> AND most importantly: securiy!
>
> Shouldn't it be about making a DBMS?
> --
> .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org
> / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
> /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.06) Linux 2.6.17.6
> ^ ^ 21:35:02 up 13 days 4:58 0 users load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00
> news://news.3home.netnews://news.hkpcug.orgnews://news.newsgroup.com.hk|||On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:04:32 -0500, "Dan Guzman"
<guzmanda@.nospam-online.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>The difference really depends on the job descriptions rather than the
>titles. These positions could very well have the same responsibilities is
>some companies. That said, I would expect a person with the title DBA to b
e
>focused on operational areas like availability, backup/recovery and
>maintenance. A Database Engineer usually is more focused on database
>development.
Might want to throw the term "architect" in there somewhere, "database
architect" seems pretty common these days, meaning emphasis of
development, compared to "DBA".
Performance tuning seems to fall somewhere in the middle.
J.

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