Database Personnel

Database Personnel

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify different database personnel such as database administrators, designers, developers and data entry operators, and describe their roles and responsibilities in database development and maintenance.
• The responsibilities and ethics of different database personnel should be stressed.

Relevant past paper:

DSE ICT Elec A(SP-2016): 2013 4a. 2014 4b. 2016 4a.

Duties of database personnel (some examples)

Database administrators

Operational maintenance stage.

Monitor the daily operation of the database system.

Fine-tuning the system e.g. optimize query commands.

Control access rights of different user groups.

Database designers

Application and database design stage.

Create a database design including data type, table structure etc. Create view for different user groups.

System analysts

Requirements collection and analysis stage.

Collect the requirements information from different users.

Design the conceptual database.

Database developers/programmers

Implementation stage.

Programmers write program codes based on “database and application design”.

Data entry operators

Enter data into database for its operation.

References:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/personnel-involved-in-database-management-system/