Hassane TAHIR - Energy & Utilities Department, Sopra Steria Group11 avenue du Maréchal Juin, Meudon-la-Forêt, 92366 Cedex, France

Decision Support Systems (DSS) have a great role in assistingdecision makers in many organizations to identify and solveproblems in order to make decisions. In the area of databasemanagement, many approaches have been used to automateprocedures set for complex activities such as performance anddatabase recovery. However, procedures need to becontextualized in order to take into account the permanentchanging of technical and social contextual elements added inDBA (Database Administrator) practices. This paper presents acontext-based prototype for decision making to support expertsin database management and administration. The prototype usesa software-modeling tool called Contextual Graphs (CxG

ContextualElemens,ContextualGraphsDatabaseAdministration, DBA, Decision Support System, IntelligentAssistant System, Practices, Procedures, Prototype for decisionmaking