DBA

DBA or dba may refer to:

Academic

 * Doctor of Business Administration, a research-based doctorate degree

Biology and medicine

 * Diamond–Blackfan anemia, a congenital medical condition
 * Dilute, Brown and non-Agouti, a strain of laboratory mice developed by C. C. Little

Computing and telecommunication

 * DarkBASIC (.dba format), a computer language and associated programming environment designed to simplify the creation of 3-D video games
 * Database administration, a technical function concerned with the effective use and control of a particular database and of its related applications
 * Database administrator, a person responsible for the environmental aspects of a database
 * Dynamic bandwidth allocation, a telecommunications algorithm

Other uses in science and technology

 * Bolkhovitinov DB-A, a 1930s Soviet heavy bomber
 * dB(A), a sound level unit in which different frequencies are weighted differently to account for the perception of the human ear
 * Design basis accident, scenario in nuclear facilities
 * Dibenzylideneacetone, an organic compound used as a sunscreen
 * Double Bass Array, active absorption approach for low frequency sound reproduction
 * Double bend achromat lattice, a magnetic lattice more commonly known as Chasman–Green lattice

Other uses

 * De Bellis Antiquitatis, a tabletop wargame
 * Dalbandin Airport IATA code
 * Dallas Bar Association, a professional organization for lawyers in Dallas, Texas, U.S.
 * DBA (airline), a former low-cost German airline
 * Defense Base Act, type of insurance that covers employees at U.S. defense bases overseas
 * Doing business as, a legal term related to the name a business uses
 * The Barge Association, formerly "Dutch Barge Association" (DBA): a club for leisure users of European inland waterways.