Database Job Roles and Vendors - Databases Overview Part 2

This episode takes us through part 2 of the databases overview series.  We spend time looking at the major players in the industry and then some of the job roles typically seen in this area of technology.

The Major Players

We start with a tour of the most significant players in the industry.  These are almost all familiar names with IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft all in the top five.  The other names may not be new to you either.  MySQL and Postgres round out the top five.  These are solutions you need to be familiar with if you want to advance your career in this area.  You can focus on the niches, but big money in the database world is in working with these top vendor products.

Database Job Roles

Of course, all f this is nice to know unless you can find the right kind of job working with databases. Thus, we move next to the commonly found roles and titles for people that work in databases.  We cover a wide range of these jobs from Database Administrator to Report Writer.

Great Tools

We wrap up this topic with a quick tour of the tools available.  We did a broader article on these a while back.  However, the list of great tools has not changed since then.  If you are curious about any of the tools mentioned, then check out the links on that older article.