System Administrators may assist with certain database design tasks that overlap with the work of application designers, such as enforcing integrity standards.
Although a System Administrator concentrates on tasks that are independent of the applications running on Adaptive Server, he or she is likely to be the person with the best overview of all the applications.
For this reason, a System Administrator can advise application designers about the data that already exists on Adaptive Server, make recommendations about standardizing data definitions across applications, and so on.