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Administration Wizards

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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Definition

Modern database systems provide a collection of utilities and programs to assist a database administrator with tasks such as database installation and configuration, import/export, indexing (index wizards are covered in the self-management entry), and backup/restore.

Historical Background

Database Administrators have been skeptical of any form of automation as long as they could control the performance and security of a relatively straightforward installation. The advent of enterprise data management towards the end of the 1990s, where few administrators became responsible for many, possibly diverse database servers, has led to the use of graphical automation tools. In the mid-1990s, third party vendors introduced such tools. With SQL Server 6.5, Microsoft was the first constructor to provide an administration wizard.

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Installation and Configuration

Database servers are configured using hundreds of parameters that control everything buffer size, file layout,...

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Recommended Reading

  1. Bersinic D. and Gile S. Portable DBA: SQL Server. McGraw Hill, New York, 2004.

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  2. Schumacher R. DBA Tools Today. DBMS Magazine, January 1997.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Philippe Bonnet

  2. New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Dennis Shasha

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Bonnet, P., Shasha, D. (2009). Administration Wizards. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_12

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