Re: Oracle Taking Control

From: Mark A <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:46:47 -0700
Message-ID: <TsqdndlTwO91TvHenZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com>

<takveen_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Good Morning Everyone,
>
>
> Just wanted to share my observation regarding Oracle. If we compare
> when Oracle 7 with what we have right now i.e. Oracle 10g. Its
> completely evident that many processes that were the headache of a DBA
> now controlled by Oracle automatically. Keeping in mind the flow/trend
> of development of Oracle software, I think may be Oracle 21g would be
> having everything automated and controlled by the Genie itself. DBA
> jobs would marely be develop the database only just like we do in MS
> Access. All maintainence would be taken care of by the Oracle Genie. It
>
> means less opportunities in Oracle DBA field eventually ...
> Thanks,
>
> Asim Abbasi

People will still have to design and implement databases, but generally you are correct. The short term goal is to catch up to SQL Server in ease of use, which hopefully will happen way before 21g.

If you are relatively young and are looking for a career in database administration, being able to model and design databases, and being able to write PL/SQL will become increasingly important. Received on Sat Nov 05 2005 - 09:46:47 CST