Profession database integrator

Database integrators perform integration among different databases. They maintain integration and ensure interoperability.

Personality Type

• Conventional / Investigative

Related professions databases

• Database administrator (dba)
• Database designer
• Database or network professional, all other

Knowledge

• Information structure

  The type of infrastructure which defines the format of data: semi-structured, unstructured and structured.

• ICT debugging tools

  The ICT tools used to test and debug programs and software code, such as GNU Debugger (GDB), Intel Debugger (IDB), Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger, Valgrind and WinDbg.

• Resource description framework query language

  The query languages such as SPARQL which are used to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description Framework format (RDF).

• Database management systems

  The tools for creating, updating and managing databases, such as Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

• Data extraction, transformation and loading tools

  The tools for integration of information from multiple applications, created and maintained by organisations, into one consistent and transparent data structure.

• Query languages

  The field of standardised computer languages for retrieval of information from a database and of documents containing the needed information.

Skills

• Balance database resources

  Stabilise the workload and resources of a database, by controlling the demand of transactions, allocating disk spaces and ensuring reliability of the servers in order to optimise cost and risk ratio.

• Manage ICT legacy implication

  Oversee the transfer process from a legacy (an outdated system) to a current system by mapping, interfacing, migrating, documenting and transforming data.

• Manage data

  Administer all types of data resources through their lifecycle by performing data profiling, parsing, standardisation, identity resolution, cleansing, enhancement and auditing. Ensure the data is fit for purpose, using specialised ICT tools to fulfil the data quality criteria.

• Implement data warehousing techniques

  Apply models and tools such as online analytical processing (OLAP) and Online transaction processing (OLTP), to integrate structured or unstructured data from sources, in order to create a central depository of historical and current data.

• Integrate ICT data

  Combine data from sources to provide unified view of the set of these data.

• Perform data cleansing

  Detect and correct corrupt records from data sets, ensure that the data become and remain structured according to guidelines.

• Create database diagrams

  Develop the database design models and diagrams which establish the structure of a database by using modelling software tools to be implemented in further processes.

• Use interface description language

  Utilise specification language, such as CORBA and WSDL, for describing interface connection among software components or programs in a programming-language-independent way.

• Verify formal ICT specifications

  Check capabilities, correctness and efficiency of intended algorithm or system to match certain formal specifications.

• Execute integration testing

  Perform testing of system or software components grouped in multiple ways to evaluate their ability to interconnect, their interface and their ability to provide global functionality.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB