Organizations are placing ever-increasing demands on database administrators. Application integration, the explosion in rich media, the need for faster and better business intelligence, the regulatory environment, stepped-up custom development work, and even the emergence of database-driven mobile applications are all creating need for personnel skilled in developing, managing, testing, securing, and backing up databases. On the other side of the coin, outsourcing trends and automation tools are working to restrain the growth of database administration staff. As our annual IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study has shown over the years, database administrators (DBAs) and support staff comprises a relatively small but vital part of most IT organizations.
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