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No, that's a different thing.

Database administrators keep databases running, managing access and security, doing maintenance tasks, running migrations, etc.

Data engineers are about maximizing the value of existing data by transforming it, aggregating it, etc.



I'll throw $100 towards your travel costs for you to come fly in and tell this to my employer.

Not necessarily the difference between DBA and DE, just what a flipping DBA even is.


DBAs do that second thing too, and always have.


Yeah, that's my experience as well. They've always run ETL type jobs.




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