Organizations are placing ever-increasing demands on database administrators. Application integration, the Internet, 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 commoditize and restrain the growth of database administration staff. As our annual study, IT Spending, Staffing and Technology Trends, has shown over the years, database administrators (DBAs) and support staff comprise a relatively small but vital part of most IT organizations. In addition, DBAs have maintained a surprisingly steady percentage of the total IT staff, rising slightly from 3.5% in 2002 to 3.7% this year, according to the annual survey.
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