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|    Mladen Gogala to TheBoss    |
|    Re: aidev Monitoring Plugin v12.1.0.9.0     |
|    10 Nov 17 16:50:24    |
      From: gogala.mladen@gmail.com              On Wed, 08 Nov 2017 23:20:11 +0000, TheBoss wrote:              > Probably his first by now.       > It is hardly possible to earn a decent living as a DBA these days.              I am not a DBA for more than 5 years now. DBA job is dead. The last nail       in the coffin is Amazon RDS, which makes a lot of DBA work unnecessary.       There is no need to install or backup the database. The only thing left       is SQL tuning, which is also only possible using the DBMS_SQLTUNE since       trace files cannot be accessed. If a DBA is lucky, he or she can get a       job like a SME, but that is being outsourced to remote DBA companies,       like Pythian or directly to the application vendor themselves. I'm sorry       to say that many application vendors don't do a good job on optimizing       their products for performance. They use optimize by $$$ technique, which       essentially requires the customer to buy (or lease) a bigger box.       One unintended consequence of so called "cloud revolution" is the death       of RAC. Availability is now a cloud vendor offering. There is no more       reason to buy expensive and complex RAC configurations. RAC is an       availability offering. AWS can guarantee the instance availability as       well or better than RAC. As opposed to stand-alone Oracle instances, RAC       still requires a professional DBA who knows what he or she is doing.       However, an Oracle DBA is the last remnant from Jurassic, bound to join       the rest of its kind. Once a mighty beast atop the IT food chain, Oracle       DBA is now being displaced from the new ecosystem which has no place for       such a magnificent creature. The end is nigh.                            --       Mladen Gogala       The Oracle Whisperer       http://mgogala.byethost5.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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