Write and Maintain Database Programs
- Database engineers write new database programs and maintain existing programs to ensure they can handle the flow of traffic and the amount of data being stored in the database.
Design New Databases
- Database engineers help design new databases as per business requirement, data storage needs, and the number of users accessing the database.
Monitor Databases and Programs
- Database engineers continuously monitor databases and related systems to ensure high functionality.
Automation
- Database engineers write new support programs and scripts for databases to deploy, operate, increase data storage capacity and fix existing database problems.
Troubleshooting
- Database engineers troubleshoot platform specific performance, checking for potential problems that affect database functionality and related database programs.
Debugging
- Database engineers look through coding language to debug existing database scripts and programs.