From: jeremy0505@gmail.com   
      
   In article , gogala.mladen@gmail.com says...   
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   > 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.   
      
   Do you regard AWS RDS as "the future" and the future which, discounting   
   any persoanl bias regarding employment for Oracle DBAs, is "a good   
   thing" - or is this a commodity, untuned, untunable except by the £££   
   (for I am in the UK) approach - but which will succeed because it's   
   simple?   
      
   As a slight aside, I heard that Oracle SE on Oracle Cloud (PaaS)   
   includes TDE (whereas you need EE and some option if hosted elsewhere).   
      
   I also heard that Oracle for RDS is "different" in some ways to the   
   regular Oracle. Keen to find out from experts if this is a commercial   
   thing or technical.   
      
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   jeremy   
      
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