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Security
Create, alter, and drop users and roles. Monitor and audit database access. Develop, implement, and manage a security strategy (or security policy), including use of users, roles, privileges, and authentication. Understand how distributed processing affects security.
Data Administration
Manage integrity constraints. Implement the physical database from the logical design. Evaluate the use of stored procedures, triggers, and constraints to implement business rules.
Resource Management
Create and manage indexes. Understand the use and implementation of clusters (and hash clusters). Allocate and manage physical storage structures (datafiles, redo logs, control files). Allocate and manage logical storage structures (tablespaces, schemas, extents, ...). Manage system resource use by defining proper profiles. Perform capacity planning.
Education
Disseminate Oracle information to developers, users, and management when appropriate. Train backup DBAs, application developers, and other appropriate staff. Attend training classes, technical conferences, and user group meetings (to stay abreast of the latest developments). Subscribe to and read trade journals such as Oracle Magazine. Subscribe to and participate in Internet discussion (news) groups and mailing lists.
Database Standards
Define, document, and maintain database standards for your organization. Develop naming conventions for everything, including SQS*Net files, table names, index names, procedure names, etc. Write and distribute procedures for tasks that must be performed frequently. Define database documentation standards. Compile a DBA handbook for your organization, of all the documentation on customized code, procedures, and standards. Keep as current as possible.