Database Administrators
Tasks Include:
- Develop standards and guidelines for the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
- Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
- Test programs or databases, correct errors, and make necessary modifications.
- Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
- Approve, schedule, plan, and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems, such as the installation of new databases.
- Train users and answer questions.
- Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
- Develop data models describing data elements and how they are used, following procedures and using pen, template, or computer software.
- Review procedures in database management system manuals to make changes to database.
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National: +8.1%
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Job Zone:
Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Highest ($50,000 and up)
Median Earnings:
National
$99,890.00
State
$99,220.00
Regional
Database Administrators
Description
Career Cluster: | Information Technology |
Administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of database management systems. Coordinate changes to computer databases. Identify, investigate, and resolve database performance issues, database capacity, and database scalability. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases.
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Database Administrators
Education
Required Level of Education
- Bachelor's Degree = 88.98%
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master. = 3.91%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 3.46%
- Some College Courses = 2.21%
- Master's Degree = 1.29%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 0.15%
Related Work Experience
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 52.72%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 27.99%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 11.16%
- Over 10 years = 2.41%
- Up to and including 1 month = 2.15%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 1.41%
- None = 1.29%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 0.72%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 0.15%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 32.80%
- None = 29.41%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 13.60%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 10.90%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 6.05%
- Up to and including 1 month = 5.08%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 1.44%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 0.72%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 39.95%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 26.11%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 19.50%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 6.05%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 5.11%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.21%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 1.06%
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Database Administrators
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Develop standards and guidelines for the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
- Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
- Test programs or databases, correct errors, and make necessary modifications.
- Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
- Approve, schedule, plan, and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems, such as the installation of new databases.
- Train users and answer questions.
- Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
- Develop data models describing data elements and how they are used, following procedures and using pen, template, or computer software.
- Review procedures in database management system manuals to make changes to database.
- Select and enter codes to monitor database performance and to create production databases.
- Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system, or direct others in coding descriptions.
- Identify, evaluate and recommend hardware or software technologies to achieve desired database performance.
- Plan and install upgrades of database management system software to enhance database performance.
- Provide technical support to junior staff or clients.
- Test changes to database applications or systems.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Identify and evaluate industry trends in database systems to serve as a source of information and advice for upper management.
- Review workflow charts developed by programmer analyst to understand tasks computer will perform, such as updating records.
- Revise company definition of data as defined in data dictionary.
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Database Administrators
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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94.75 | Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
74.00 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
73.25 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
63.75 | Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
63.50 | Telecommunications | Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. |
62.75 | Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
52.50 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
52.25 | Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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72.00 | Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
72.00 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
68.75 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
68.75 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
68.75 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
62.50 | Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
59.50 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
59.50 | Programming | Writing computer programs for various purposes. |
56.25 | Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
56.25 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
53.00 | Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
53.00 | Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
53.00 | Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
50.00 | Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. |
50.00 | Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
50.00 | Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
50.00 | Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. |
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Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
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75.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
72.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
72.00 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
72.00 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
72.00 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
72.00 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
65.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
62.50 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
59.50 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
59.50 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
56.25 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
56.25 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
53.00 | Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
53.00 | Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
53.00 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
50.00 | Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
50.00 | Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
50.00 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
50.00 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
50.00 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
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Database Administrators
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
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95.75 | Working with Computers | Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
79.50 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
78.00 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
77.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
75.00 | Analyzing Data or Information | Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
73.00 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
71.50 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
71.00 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
68.75 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
68.25 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
67.00 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
65.50 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
65.25 | Documenting/Recording Information | Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
61.75 | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others | Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
60.50 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
60.50 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
58.75 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
57.50 | Developing Objectives and Strategies | Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
52.00 | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others | Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
51.00 | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information | Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
50.00 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
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78.50 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
78.50 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
75.50 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
75.00 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
74.75 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
72.00 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
71.50 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
71.00 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
67.50 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
67.50 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
66.50 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
62.75 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
59.00 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
56.25 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
55.75 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
53.50 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
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66.67 | Working Conditions | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions. |
66.67 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
61.17 | Achievement | Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement. |
55.50 | Recognition | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status. |
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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98.40 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
95.40 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
91.60 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
91.60 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
89.80 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
86.80 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
86.60 | Spend Time Sitting | How much does this job require sitting? |
84.80 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
82.60 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
78.20 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
77.80 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
77.60 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
71.60 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
69.20 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
67.80 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
65.80 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
63.80 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
60.00 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
59.80 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
59.60 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
55.40 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
53.20 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
52.60 | Degree of Automation | How automated is the job? |
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Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
- Examples
- Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators.
- Education
- Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $53,010.00 | $99,890.00 | $129,730.00 |
Virginia | $53,570.00 | $99,220.00 | $129,790.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
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Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 91,800 | 99,200 | +8.1% |
Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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