DBA
DBA Appreciation Day — Business Leaders: Are You Jettisoning Expertise That You Need?
It's Database Administrator (DBA) appreciation day. We hadn't forgotten. Hopefully neither have you. It's a job that helps keep mission…
MongoDB Gets a New Distribution, as Percona Grasps the Nettle
Open source database specialist Percona today announced its very own MongoDB distribution (and managed services for it); an unusual move…
Amazon Kisses Goodbye to Last of 7,500 Oracle Databases
Amazon’s consumer business says it has turned off its final Oracle database, after migrating a massive 75 petabytes of internal…
The Life of a DBA: Behind the Scenes, Amid the Chaos
We asked a senior database administrator to talk Computer Business Review's readers through the life of a DBA, for this…
Will You Still Be Happy with Your Oracle Database in Five Years Time?
The world of the Database Administrator (DBA) has changed since the technology went mainstream in the 1970s, writes Bruce Momjian,…