Re: Are Oracle GUIs causing a decline in DBA salaries?

Karsten Farrell wrote:
> forbrich_at_telusplanet.net said...
>

>>/Hans
>>(to take a line from you Karsten:  DBA > architect > retired > consultant)
>>
>>*There are 10 kinds of people in the world -those that understand binary and those that don't.
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Just my .02 as a fairly "new" DBA - I do believe that GUI's definatly make some things faster/easier, checking and adding or increasing datafile (size) for one. For myself I have always utilized both the command line interface and whatever GUI's are available for whatever I'm doing, some things are just plain faster thru a command - period. Personally I prefer to look at my tablespace usage thru OEM rather than a sql command or script, but I usually have both at hand, especially since my semi-rural home is relegated to dial up and a 28.8 connection,   working from the SQL> prompt is a must.

Whatever I do within OEM while I'm at work, I usually show the SQL it will be running and paste or preferably type it in to a SQL window just so it stays in my mind. I can definatly see big problems if a DBA used nothing but a GUI (and could quite possibly get away with this for quite some time) and be totally lost the first time he/she had to add or increase the size of a datafile manually to get a database running again. I've seen (windows) network admins totally lost at a command prompt if they had to do anything more complex than copy a few files.

As for the original poster, yes IMO I think it has the potential to lower the average DBA salary, as *most* management usually seldom does see past the eye-candy and if they think that a database can be made easy enough to maintain thru GUI's then just tack the workload on to one or more of the network admins, not to mention that the preferred solution these days if things are to slow is just to throw more processor power / memory at it.

cheers! Received on Tue Apr 29 2003 - 14:20:43 CDT