DBA's have always been faced with the difficult task of maintaining a successful database environment, but recently new trends have come along to further challenge them such as multiple os platforms to deal with, added complexity in database software, and the ever-increasing need for more data and storage.

Regardless of these challenges, the DBA is expected to keep key database systems available and optimized for high performance. To meet this goal, the DBA must put a strategy in place across all databases, regardless of platform. The high performance DBA should focus on the key areas of database management that contribute the most to high availability and performance, including:

Storage Management

Performance Management

Capacity Management

This paper will outline techniques you can use to streamline and automate the management of these critical areas so you can deliver high databases performance and availability.