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.   
      
      
      
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   Mladen Gogala   
   The Oracle Whisperer   
   http://mgogala.byethost5.com   
      
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