The ArcGIS Platform provides many tools that allow you to administer your enterprise geodatabase. We'll focus on effective patterns that developers who are familiar with Python should utilize to administer the geodatabase effectively. Topics discussed include: the types of administrators and their role in maintaining the geodatabase; making connections to the geodatabase; creating enterprise geodatabases; creating users and roles; managing user privileges on data; reconcile-post-compress; updating statistics and indexes; and managing user connections.