RE: OT: Ari and his company have been noted in InfoWorld.

From: Jenkins, Michael <Michael.Jenkins_at_Nextel.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 14:08:02 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00342291.20010705141029@fatcity.com>

I wonder if a similar thought was echoed in 1991? Maybe all of the DBAs that were former DB2, etc DBAs could offer some war stories here. It's funny that databases have become more cumbersome to manage, not easier IMHO. DBAs have to understand more technologies that are outside the RDBMS box than ever before. Every time we get a new version it gets a little more complicated to manage. I suppose we should just put everything in autoextend mode, oversize the SGA and other memory structures and we would be able to manage 1000's of databases. Not likely now, or ever for that matter. All of the quick fixes leave out one particular fact: All databases are unique and have their share of unique problems. Thank goodness for that!

I can't wait to take a vacation and recover a standby database while adrift on the ocean. It gives "Cast Away" a whole new meaning!

:))

--Michael

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I for one think Ari and his company need to be commended. In the future you and I will be capable of admin'ing and monitoring multiple databases via handhelds. Larger consulting companies will likely have teams of DBA's that are responsible for large pools of databases. New databases will be added to the monitoring pools within minutes. Ari is breaking the ground for the future. When faced with any technology and attempting to figure out where it is going to go think Matrix or Star Trek. Sure these types of things are a long way off but it is the way things will go. Database administrators will eventually go the way of train conductors. The DBA for the year 2010 will not at all resemble the DBA of 2001.

Ethan Post
http://www.geocities.com/epost1

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