Database Management Roles and Responsibilities

Oracle Enterprise Manager supports granting different levels of access to DBAs based on their roles and responsibilities in the organization. The following roles are recommended to implement security best practices for an organization.

• Application DBA

  An application DBA is a restricted database administrator who manages application schemas, application objects, and application performance in the database. An application DBA should be able to identify and fix application performance issues in the database. An application DBA is responsible for keeping the application up and running and in good performance.

• Application Developer

  An application developer is a person who develops an application. Application developers capture requirements from customers and develop the application according to customer requirements. Application developers use Oracle Enterprise Manager to tune SQL in their application modules for optimal performance in production environments. Application developers are responsible for the modules of the application in development, test, and production environments.

• Monitoring User

  The database monitoring user monitors the database for smooth functioning of the application in production environments. Monitoring users respond to alerts raised in the Enterprise Manager environment. Monitoring users can update the schedule of metrics and setup blackouts on the databases. Monitoring users are not allowed to make any changes to the production database. Monitoring users ensure that the application is up and running by responding to any issues reported and ensuring that the issues are assigned to the DBAs responsible for resolution.

• Database Administrator

  Database administrators performs full database lifecycle management including installation configuration, monitoring, backup, recovery, and performance tuning.