Re: dba mentor

Well, and it is true, is it not? I mean almost. I mean practically almost. I mean kind of close. I mean not at all. ;-)

Am 05.10.2018 um 15:00 schrieb (Redacted sender Jay.Miller for DMARC):
>
> Larry Ellison said the same thing about Oracle 8.
>
> I remember an Oracle sales rep saying at a user group meeting that
> with Oracle 8 there is no more need for SQL Tuning, the optimizer will
> handle everything. The entire room burst out laughing.
>
> I also remember the Gartner group claiming that programmers would be
> obsolete by the end of the 1990s.
>
> As the environment and applications become more complex we seem to
> have more DBA work, not less.
>
> Jay Miller
>
> Sr. Oracle DBA
>
> 201.369.8355
>
> *From:*oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Norman Dunbar
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2018 5:13 PM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Re: dba mentor
>
> Evening Mladen,
>
> Regarding "the database will manage itself". I remember back in
> college in 1983ish, the tale then was "programmers won't be needed as
> programs will be written by computers". I'm still waiting.
>
> And if the database does manage itself, we DBAs will have more time to
> sort out the cr4p code causing all the performance problems!
>
> I for one, won't hold my breath.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>

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